In the past months thinking about the purpose of life got more and more frequent. Questioning everything, starting from university, through the meaning of travelling and most importantly, the way I behave in certain situations, or more broadly, who am
Practical Strategies for Working with Imperfect Memory
1. Lead with what you know for certain
Start with sensory details and emotions you remember clearly. ‘I remember the smell of pine needles warming in the sun’ is stronger than reconstructing whether
After spending almost a month with my partner — the man I hadn’t seen for half a year — I realized something: maybe this is what peace feels like. Not fireworks, not chaos, just that quiet comfort of “ah, I’m actually safe here.”
Every night, when my house falls quiet, my dream starts to speak. Not loudly — just in small whispers that only I can hear. It says, “Keep going. One day, this silence will make sense.”
Then came the harder parts – quitting jobs with no backup plan, his defensiveness when I raised financial concerns, the quiet resentment toward my family for seeing what I could no longer ignore.