Open almost any discussion about modern dating and you'll eventually encounter the same advice: Men should "play the field", date widely, sleep with different women, gain experience, learn what you want. Women, meanwhile, receive a very different message - know what you're looking for, but don't have too many partners. Be experienced enough to be … Continue reading Does Dating More Make Us Wiser in Love? ♥️
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Women Are Visual Too 👀
Every time I open my phone, there seems to be another chart explaining how men and women supposedly choose a partner. They all look like they're trying to be scientific. Neat little graphs. Colour-coded priorities. Men, we're told, place physical attractiveness at the top of the list. Women, meanwhile, are said to prize kindness, intelligence, … Continue reading Women Are Visual Too 👀
We Are More Than the Year We Were Born 📅
Spend enough time online and you'll hear the same refrain repeated as though it's an unquestionable gospel: women are at their most desirable in their twenties. The implication is rarely subtle. After that, a countdown begins. Every birthday becomes another step away from relevance. Every laughter line becomes evidence of decline. Every passing year is framed as another reason to compete with younger women who simply happened to be born later.
How to Love the Limited Version of Yourself ❤️🩹
Written for others who also didn't get their lives back. There was a time I felt unstoppable. Not in a loud way. Not in a superhero way. Just quietly certain. Certain that if I worked hard enough, stayed kind enough, tried long enough, life would open. I’d travel. Build my business. Fall in love. Create … Continue reading How to Love the Limited Version of Yourself ❤️🩹
Natural Beauty vs. Curated Beauty — The Rise of the “TikTok Face”
In the age of Instagram filters and TikTok trends, beauty is no longer just about what you were born with — it’s about what you can create, sculpt, and present. The so-called “TikTok Face” has emerged as a global aesthetic: high, lifted brows; perfectly contoured cheekbones; a button nose; pillowy lips; and a smooth, poreless … Continue reading Natural Beauty vs. Curated Beauty — The Rise of the “TikTok Face”
Choose Yourself.
Milestone moments navigate us. We don't know what matters to us until experiences come along that offer us a way to get to one of them. Perhaps you're in a pursuit of knowledge, so want to achieve goals in the shape of qualifications and a career to match. Or maybe a family is something you're … Continue reading Choose Yourself.
To Hope or Not to Hope? That is the Question ❔️
One of the most painful emotions a human can undergo is not knowing whether to have hope or to simply give up. How long do you hold on for? What action(s) are specifically needed in order to have faith that things will "get better"? And...what if they don't last? Or worse, don't happen. Because when … Continue reading To Hope or Not to Hope? That is the Question ❔️
How Societal Ideals Affect our Personal Realities 🗣
Isn't it ironic that, when we want to find ourselves, we choose to get lost in something - books, music, film, art, nature. There's something intrinsically valuable about letting go of everything inside just to see if you can trace what it is you lost along the way, using these endeavours like a compass. They … Continue reading How Societal Ideals Affect our Personal Realities 🗣
9 Hard-Hitting Philosophical Quotes That Remind Us To Never Give Up on Living
Every day is filled with challenges. Some of these requiring a far more Herculean effort than others. And although it may not seem like it, even the luckiest of us cannot escape these trials and tribulations. The world isn't in possession of a justice system on how these challenges are handed out either. So if … Continue reading 9 Hard-Hitting Philosophical Quotes That Remind Us To Never Give Up on Living
Coping with Life After Loss
Nothing is more scary than experiencing a world which, on the surface, remains identical to the last, and yet, at its core, you know that everything about it has been changed forever. No one else knows what's happened, though. To the passers by and random others, it's just the same old town doing its same … Continue reading Coping with Life After Loss