How much can we really predict the future of a relationship? — Laura is your typical Gen Z kid. She’s youtful and inexperienced. She thinks she can avoid ever getting in a toxic relationship or going through a painful breakup. She purges anyone who posseses one or more of a list of red flags that she’s seen prescribed in online forums. In…

Why you love your anxiety and can’t let go of it. — Anxiety can make you bring your fears to life. You’re so afraid of sounding stupid that you get anxious, and end up sounding stupid. You’re so afraid of failing an exam that when you open your textbook you panic and can’t study. I inherited a bad case of anxiety from…

I speak to the needy, straight women. The feminine women of various literatures — the lover. She lies in most, if not all of us. She is the one who feels tired and rejected. The one who laments and complains about how men always hurt her and don’t care about…

Sometimes I feel like if I try to be everything, I’ll end up being nothing. Shall I be a woman? A woman of honourable pride. Holy book in hand. Sleeves slid over bony wrists and ankles. Praying for the demise, of those who chase highs. Brows forming a bridge, due to anxious cries…

My friends should hate me. My enemies should love me. I am a devoted disciple, who will thrust a dagger in your back. Unknown to them, my words are fickle, since my smile shines like brass. I cover cold calculations, with scatterbrained niceties. So endear at my errors, And be fooled by my…

Attempting to make sense of your life path with computer algorithms. — “Looking through the lens of computer science can teach us about the nature of the human mind, the meaning of rationality, and the oldest question of all: how to live.” — Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By What’s a search algorithm? Search algorithms are self-explantory. Computers use…

As I tried ChatGPT for the first time, I was mesmorised. I instructed it to ‘write a poem about the county of Essex in England’: Essex, the county by the sea Where the rolling hills and fields are free A land of ancient history Where the Romans once walked, proudly …

“Trauma bonds are emotional bonds with an individual that arise from a recurring, cyclical pattern of abuse perpetuated by intermittent reinforcement through rewards and punishments. The process of forming trauma bonds is referred to as trauma bonding or traumatic bonding.” The colour of our eyes, and the shade of our skin, makes…

“Writing has become the way I counter anxiety. It’s one of the few things that is totally within my control, and having the feeling of control is what helps anxiety. Being able to go into a fictional world or follow a story in your mind, was one of the few…