There are some topics one may attempt to tackle but don’t even know where to begin, and suicide and depression are those things for me: topics so universal yet contain experiences so unique to every person. Everybody has once struggled with their mental health, or at least knows somebody who has. September is Suicide Prevention Month, and it hits even harder being a freshman in college. My high school had a serious mental health crisis, but it was something each and every stu

the closing sentiment: I’ve moved on. I’m not the person I was yesterday, nor the one I was 12 months ago, and that is the goal. Morning doesn’t control, define me. In fact, it knows nothing about me. It couldn’t recognize the room I wake up in, even if it wanted to, because home is no longer there. Every rigid corner is different, and maybe the wind has shifted some things. It doesn’t know the people I may speak to or how my hair might look. Maybe I have new friends, or w

If you know me well enough, you know that patience is something that has only recently entered my life. It took me 16 years to appreciate what a slow life might look like. To sit outside with my cup of tea and journal. To take in all of the moments I have by myself. But most importantly, to let life take its course… que sera, sera (what will be, will be). I’m not Indian but many of my closest friends are. Over the years, they have immersed me in their culture and I am forever

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