My aim of this blog post is to show you how important a break from social media can be and how it is really beneficial for your own well-being to escape from the toxic world of social media. Personally, when I’m scrolling through Instagram, TikTok or Snapchat I lose the concept of time and next thing I know I have been on my phone for hours doing nothing productive but looking at other people’s lives and unintentionally...
As an international student, I have two homes. I am constantly away from a place I call home. I am away from my family, or away from my friends. Moving halfway across the world for college was difficult. But the most difficult part is getting attached to two places at the same time. At first, I struggled with feeling homesick no matter where I was. I was homesick here because I missed my family, and homesick with...
It is so strange looking back on my life and how I came to feel so positively about my sexuality. Now, I have accepted myself so much, that I struggle to remember how frightening it can be to be gay, to come out, to freely express yourself. Now, I would happily kiss another guy in public, or bring up the topic of homosexuality in a conversation with people I don’t know so well. Whenever I experience discrimination, I...
Since January, I can count all the people I’ve met up with in person on one hand. To tell you the truth, I’ve coped with it the same as most people. Sometimes I feel lonely, sometimes I feel stressed, and sometimes I feel like it’s possible the world actually ended three months ago, but I haven’t looked outside to see it. But I think the weirdest feeling of all is when I feel hopeful. With the sun out...
