Tag: Months

In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often forget one essential truth: we have only one life to live. The years roll by, and we find ourselves stuck in routines that do not truly nurture our body, mind, and soul. But what if I told you that you have the power to change this? What if you c...

While the existential distress that I felt when I first landed here in August of this year has subsided to some extent, it has been replaced by a deeper understanding of what troubles me about all large cities. London (like many other big cities) offers many amazing opportunities to those ...

In one month, I leave for a three-month trip throughout Mexico. If someone had told me two years ago that I would be traveling to Mexico for three months, I wouldn't have believed them and insisted that I would be going to France or Italy instead. For some reason, I was always skeptical of trave...

“I don’t want to have a baby. I want to live in San Francisco and go to graduate school there,” my wife told me. This was news to me. After 2 months of marriage things were not going well. They hadn’t been going well for a long time. It was naive of me to think getting mar...

Obviously, it would be a bit of a shock at first, to be told you’ve only got 6 months to live; but when you get down to it, it’s kind of nice to know exactly how long you’ve got left. I mean, it takes away all that worrying; should I start watching this series, is it worth me bo...

The year 2022 marked a nadir where life itself felt precarious; a period so engulfing it nearly extinguished my will to persist, underscored by the struggle with my own gender identity, a facet of existence as innate for many as the very act of breathing, yet for me, it was suffocating. Confronted w...

I know scores of black people who abhor February. It is not just the cheap brothers who don’t want to buy their girlfriend roses and take her to a mediocre restaurant that increases prices just in the name of capitalism. It is not the sisters who cannot find anyone decent to be their Valentine...