Umar Khalid returned to Tihar today after 3 days of interim bail for his mother's surgery. Look at the message on his t-shirt! His ideas can never be caged.
Bawled my eyes out for 20 mins in the cab coz my parents are leaving
Spent next 20 mins sending random reels to my boyf as emotional first aid
Still haven’t reached work. It’s 6 km from home
I’ve had enough time in Blr traffic to process all three stages of grief
What a city
normalize giving up on people. no more seeing the best in them, no more excusing their behavior. accept them as they are and reject them. If they wanted to appreciate you, they would have already.
Me: Wow, I am so empathetic, self-aware, and emotionally intelligent.
My dad: proceeds to break down the situation layer by layer, point out everything I missed, and somehow still teaches me something new about the human psyche.
Humbled every single time. So grateful for him.
growing up nobody teaches you what a good relationship looks like. they teach you what to avoid. stay away from boys. be careful. don't get distracted.
the whole vocabulary around dating in indian households is built on fear.
so you learn to be small with it. you learn to be small with a lot of things actually.
trust me, i was frugal before i met my bf. frugal in my pocket, frugal in my dreams, frugal in what i thought i was allowed to want. i would think twice before buying myself something good. i would think three times before saying out loud what i actually wanted out of my life.
then this man walked in and the only thing he has done in the time i have known him is teach me abundance.
he taught me to spend on myself without the guilt. he taught me to build myself from the ground up. he taught me that you can deal with the world all day and still come home to peace inside your own head, that the two are not in competition.
he has raised me more in this time than i raised myself in 23 years.
and to everyone -
dating is a life skill in a sense that you grow next to another person for long enough that your habits start to swap. that exchange does not happen in any other relationship in your life.
every young person should date. and date the right person. those two things are equally important and people only ever say the second one.
if you are 20 and someone good is in front of you, do not let the fear you were raised on decide for you.
thank god I was a Watson’s regular before 2025 bc me and my friends actually had room to dance and sing at the top of our lungs
went back a few months ago and it felt like the entire city was inside one room