This really made me pause and reflect. I love how you connect self-awareness, gratitude, and responsibility reminding us that identity, privilege, and kindness are all intertwined. It’s humbling and grounding, and I appreciate you putting this into words so clearly.✨
This really made me pause and reflect. I love how you connect self-awareness, gratitude, and responsibility reminding us that identity, privilege, and kindness are all intertwined. It’s humbling and grounding, and I appreciate you putting this into words so clearly.✨
Thank you honey. I am glad it was clear to understand. I wondered if it was!
This essay invites us to stand naked before ourselves, stripped of adornment and illusion.
It shows how mirrors become battlegrounds, where we dress wounds with jewellery and clothes.
The body is questioned, the mind exposed both fragile, both unreliable as anchors of identity.
Assumptions crumble: we cannot until we try, we fail until discipline teaches us otherwise.
Ignorance is revealed not as shame but as the human condition, a reminder of our limits.
Privilege is unmasked as scaffolding, luck and blessing shaping the paths we mistake for merit.
The text insists that gratitude, not ego, is the true measure of what we have been given.
Generosity becomes hollow if it feeds pride; it becomes sacred when it honours the gift first received.
We are reminded that compassion begins with tenderness towards our own bodies and minds.
Ultimately, the question “Who are you?” is answered not with titles, but with humility and shared humanity.
Thank you so much Adriao
Shalini, this felt like someone gently taking my shoulders and going, ‘hey, slow down and actually look at yourself.’
I like the way you peel everything back — body, mind, achievements — until what’s left is just… the soft truth of being human.
It made me pause a bit. In a good way.
There’s something grounding about remembering we’re small, but still capable of choosing kindness on purpose.
Beautifully put, honestly.
Thank you Asuka, for every time taking the time to understand my words and describe how you took it in. I appreciate every word you write!
Thank you Chad