Author name: Nirbil

It usually happens without warning. I’m standing among people, sometimes familiar faces, sometimes not. The room isn’t tense. No one […]

I don’t remember a single clear moment when I decided I wasn’t comfortable with my face. It didn’t arrive as

The first time I clearly noticed it, I didn’t recognize it as jealousy. A friend told me about a promotion.

There are phases where nothing dramatic is wrong, yet a strange gap opens up inside. I look around, and it

Life doesn’t have to change much for the mind to change. Sometimes things just slow slightly. Fewer inputs come in.

Some of the heaviest days in my life have not been busy ones. They have been the days without plans,

There are moments when nothing is required of me, yet my mind feels restless. Time opens up, but instead of

There are moments when nothing is wrong, nothing is urgent, and nothing is required from me. Still, the time does

Quiet time is supposed to feel relieving. At least, that is how I always imagined it. When the noise stops,

I used to assume that rest was automatic. If I weren’t doing anything demanding, then rest would happen by default.