No fake city. No inflated crowd. Just replies, reactions, support, and poll participation.
I have mastered the look of someone who has it together. Calendar full, replies fast, always nodding. But most days I am quietly unsure if anything I do matters, performing productivity while feeling completely adrift. T...
I do the work, I get the praise, and then when it is time to talk money I shrink into a polite, grateful version of myself that accepts whatever is offered. I have watched people with half my output ask for double and ge...
Tiny emotional questions people secretly answer.
Would you leave a relationship if you lost feelings?
votePeople would kill for this role and I know it, which is exactly why I cannot complain out loud anywhere but here. The pressure to be grateful is its own weight. I smile in meetings and cry in the car. Wanting something f...
On paper I have made it. Good title, good money, the kind of role people congratulate you for. But I snap at people I love, I dread Monday by Saturday afternoon, and I have not felt curious about anything in months. The...
New title, more money, a team that looks to me for answers. And a voice in my head insisting I fooled everyone and the moment they realise I'm in over my head is coming. I keep over-preparing and under-sleeping to outrun...
Jump into the feeling you came with.
I've been running on caffeine and to-do lists for two years straight. Today a tiny thing went wrong at work and I just folded. I locked myself in a stall and cried until my face went numb, then walked out and pretended n...
I genuinely think the Indian middle class is one bad month away from collective burnout. Everywhere I look, people are just stressed all the time now. Rent increasing. School fees increasing. Petrol increasing....
Today wasn’t a bad day. Nothing went wrong, nothing upset me, nothing dramatic happened. But I woke up feeling like I had no energy for anything. Not physical energy… more like mental space. Even simple conve...
