A millenial sharing her chronicles for the internet
Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements, even if it leads nowhere? What is something a person can say that makes you immediately roll your eyes? For me, that’s saying “I am such a perfectionist”, within the first few minutes of meeting. (A close second would be someone saying “I’m such an empath.”). It…
Why do we all keep comparing ourselves against impossibly set standards? The other night, I was meeting my friends for drinks. We are all in our early 30s, working different corporate jobs and at somewhat similar stages in life. In typical millennial fashion, we shared work gossip over drinks, took notes on what vitamins we’re…
It has been a year since I started this blog. Last February, I made a promise to myself: write for a year, and if the ideas were still there, keep going. At that time, I was on a career break, unemployed, and struggling with burnout. I was uncertain about my future, recovering from months of…
What makes a city feel like home? Initially, I wanted to write a story about Warsaw, to share the city through my own perspective. And I will – spoiler alert – but not this time. Instead, I want to reflect on something bigger. In my opinion, Warsaw is a great place to live, even with…
This November marks seven years since I moved abroad to Poland for work. I landed the night before my twenty-sixth birthday (always making somewhat of a big entrance). At the time, I knew only a few facts I remembered from my history and political science classes, and not a single word of Polish. Originally, the…
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, so it is time to take something from my head and my phone notes and write about it here. Why is it that when someone breaks a leg, we treat it as an emergency and instinctively show compassion, but when it comes to mental health issues, many of us…
It’s been a minute since I last wrote something. August was chaotic, but fun. Just when I got the hang of brat summer, it was already ending. Now, September is here: very mindful, very demure, and one of my favourite months. Since childhood, I have always looked forward to September. To this day, for me,…
Restlessness is, in my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful words in the English language. My whole life has been defined by the inability to stay calm, to stay still – not out of nervousness, but from the curiosity about what comes next. Where will the journey take me? Always on the lookout, constantly…
God knows I want to break free. Break free from the unbearable summer heat and the mosquitoes buzzing around, no matter how welcomed the season is. Break free from the expectation that this should be the most amazing summer. Break free from expectations altogether. Break free from everything I am supposed to be. Break free…
When this elder millennial was growing up, the internet was still a novelty. (Gasp!) But for real – tell me how old are you, without telling me how old are you..I’ll go first – remember dial up? Squeaking phone noise and the cheesy pop soundtracks of the 2000s TV shows and romantic comedies. And suddenly…