Tag: hope

  • Sixteen Piercings Later and I’m Still Not Done

    Yuka

    I got a new piercing for my birthday a couple weeks ago, and I don’t know why I always think it’s a good idea to get more piercings. It’s like I enjoy the pain. You think the needle pain is the fun part, but no—that’s not even remotely five percent of the true pain. The Read more

  • Loosening My Grip

    Yuka

    These past couple of months, leading up to turning twenty-six, I’ve held on so tightly to the idea that I’m going to fall in love and meet my person. So tightly that almost every person I came across, no matter how small the interaction, my mind couldn’t help but wonder if they were the one—if Read more

  • Why Desire Feels Like a Promise

    Yuka

    There is this idea—it goes something along the lines of: if you feel strongly about something you want, something you yearn for, it’s already yours. Because if it wasn’t meant for you, you wouldn’t crave it so deeply. I heard it recently somewhere on the internet while I was aimlessly scrolling, and the idea has Read more