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3 days ago

We Hate Things That Feel Happy In A Distant Way, In An Irremediable Way

Ernest Hemingway said, “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken pieces.” It breaks everyone like angry men breaks old vinyl records, like cranky adolescents smash lego houses, like mad musicians play until their instruments crack, like frustrated women break flower pots on empty Saturdays. We…

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Mar 20

The Dream (…)

In the dream, there is a house haunted by a ghost and a young girl that knows its name. I stand around a corner and watch as the clock strikes midnight. A handle turns, the bedroom door creaks open, and a faint song echoes down the hallway. I lean forward…

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Mar 2

AI’s Role As a Human’s Boon Companion in Digital Therapy

In 2020, 2.99 million people in Indonesia suffering from mental health condition. Based on statistic, the projected number of people suffering from mental health condition in Indonesia is expected to reach about 3.24 million by 2024. Over the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has made matters worse. People have…

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Jan 29

I Write to Remember

I write to remember The cool breath or night sending chills down my spine like the faint touch of fingertips on January nights, the first buds you notice, peeking out of the soil, like tiny secrets between you and mother earth. …

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Jan 20

The Butterfly Effect

Chaos theory or how it is commonly known as, “The Butterfly Effect” is a theory that was first recognised by a French mathematician and engineer, named Henri Poincare and philosopher, Robert Weiner, a theory which later was further made known to the rest of the world through the endless, yet…

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Dec 17, 2022

Are You Still There?

My mother often asks me, “where does your time go, between 10:30 pm to 5:30 am?” How do I tell her, that it’s spent in tears, in laughter, or in silence, all of them capable of being a twilight time zone without you realizing. Staring at a notecard sized screen…

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Nov 24, 2022

Evolution

You can be anything but not everything. I have told myself this many times that juggling should be left to the clowns that I should focus all my energy on one creative pursuit. That I should settle down, as if I am just a cloud floating in an infinite sky…

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Oct 25, 2022

Feed Me

Feed me love Your grandmother’s steaming hot chicken soup. The pungent rosemary recipe she stirred on the stove, when your young throat was sore and your poor head ached. Feed me joy Lemon meringue pie, the white whisked so quick, the light, foamy sugar dissolves like snowflakes on warm tongues. The fruit tart and sweet. Feed me truth Rip the roughage out of the ground, pick the peaches off the tress, I want to smell the earth in your kitchen. I want to taste the garden you tend. And know your soul is part of the soil.

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Oct 2, 2022

Just As Love Should Be

❝We accept the love we think we deserve. ❞ ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Moving places is not going to appease your yearning for a sense of belonging for you’ve been secretly wishing to belong to a person / you’ve been pressing down on wounds that…

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Jul 9, 2022

The Art of Grace

The sky is my hometown for my wishes. I wait for days for my lashes to fall onto my cheeks, just so I can place them on the back of my closed fist and blow them into the sky, wrapped in my deepest longing. I perform it as a ritual━ …

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