You Don’t Have to Explain Why You’re Different
I used to call it social awareness. Often it was fear: the habit of making myself easier to explain.
Essays.
Personal perspectives and the ideas worth a second thought.
We have to keep going
Between the start and the finish sits the long middle, and the only way across it is one more step, taken on purpose.
Have no future
A sentence you hear everywhere now, said without anger. About a generation doing everything right and still standing still.
What kind of country are we living in?
Sometimes I look at Indonesia and genuinely wonder: what kind of country are we living in? Between hope and exhaustion, the same patterns keep repeating.
Be patient with everything
A poster on my wall says four impossible things. After years of ignoring it, I learned they were instructions, not decoration.
Why do I have to care about people's opinions?
You are allowed to care a little, and about very few people. Here is the difference between caring and performing.