find a niche which you love, not what people consider cool

isn't that ironic?, if you were a listener, you'd have already observed the way they speak and how they speak their emotions. it shouldn't be so difficult to recreate it, right?

alright, let's see how many days it's gonna take

We've mastered the art of mental demolition. We can drive people to the brink of existential crisis with alarming ease, twisting logic into pretzels and exploiting every insecurity. Making someone smarter though? That's where we draw a blank. It's like we're amazing surgeons who can only remove organs, not build them.

Which makes you wonder, doesn't it? Maybe the smartest person isn't the one with all the answers, but the one who's willing to raise their hand and say, 'Wait, I'm completely lost here' at least once a month. It's a rare talent, this humility thing. Almost unheard of, really. And frankly, in a world where everyone's pretending to know everything, a little self-deprecating humor is probably the only thing keeping us from collectively losing our minds.

Dua Lipa

To be "difficult" as a woman is often to carry the weight of collective discomfort with female autonomy. It is an idea at odds with the culture of conformism that most women are raised in, with the ecosystem that demands compliance over confrontation. And so, when a woman refuses to bend, it is easier to seek her dismissal as unreasonable, hysterical, deracinated, even dangerous. As British writer Rebecca West put it over a century ago: "I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute."

- Paromita Chakrabarti

i wanna eat paneer paprika taco

but i wanna make it myself, and i dont know how

how do you make a taco in the first place 🙁

i made it, but idk if i made taco or some totally different dish 😭

"Humans 'are not, in fact, going to read nothing [...] if you don't read good books you will read bad ones. If you don't go on thinking rationally, you will think irrationally.”