Shravani Naware

Now, 22 years later, I’ve lived long enough to have learned that most things are actually doable if you care enough. I rarely feel blocked in the way I did when I was younger. But it is interesting that it was something I had to learn: that problems are solveable; that if I direct my attention to the problem and learn to understand it, and act on... See more

Often, agency is almost gentle—an attunement to the world and the self, a feeling out the details of reality, and a finding of the path of least resistance. There is sometimes considerable force involved, hard work, but it is like the force of a river being pulled toward the sea.

The fig tree roots run deep and blooms in seasons. The tree does not worry when the figs fall, because it knows that new ones will grow.

We’re all figs, passive objects waiting to be chosen and if we don’t hurry up and choose, the possibility of living that life dissipates.