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May 13, 2021

I’m Not Sure I’m Ready To Stop Quarantining

Life at home turned out to be far better than I ever thought. — (***I do not, obviously, wish for COVID to linger around. By quarantine, I am referring solely to the altered state of life that the pandemic has brought about for me, not the illness itself.) I’m out for a walk with my husband and daughter. They race down a grassy hill…

Self

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I’m Not Sure I’m Ready To Stop Quarantining
I’m Not Sure I’m Ready To Stop Quarantining

May 12, 2021

The Impossibility Of Exhaling While My Homeland Gasps For Breath

Our post-vaccinated reality has become a cruel irony. — Early this year, I saw my hopes for a better, healthier 2021 mercilessly crushed into the ground as Covid wantonly blazed through America, especially California, where I live. In contrast, India, my homeland, seemed to be faring much better. Case counts were well below the 10k mark, people were able…

Covid

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The Impossibility Of Exhaling While My Homeland Gasps For Breath
The Impossibility Of Exhaling While My Homeland Gasps For Breath

Jan 11, 2021

The 10 Words That Helped Me Survive 2020

Retreating within helped illuminate the learnings which decades of external noise had effectively dimmed. — The first week of January brings a flurry of reflections about the preceding year. But, when that preceding year is 2020, you need more than your regular arsenal of retrospective understanding to achieve ‘annual closure’! There’s just no way to say this with finesse: 2020 was a crapfest of epic…

2021

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The 10 Words That Helped Me Survive 2020
The 10 Words That Helped Me Survive 2020

Dec 18, 2020

Want To Meditate But Just Cannot?

Like me, you might be doing it wrong. — Every time I hear the word ‘meditation’, my mind conjures up a tranquil setting, all neutrals and whites, a silhouette framed against the dewy morning light, sitting up tall in a restful meditative stance, eyes closed in blissful harmony, the whole image radiating serenity. My own meditation practice couldn’t be…

Meditation

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Want To Meditate But Just Cannot?
Want To Meditate But Just Cannot?

Dec 14, 2020

Why I Stopped Writing On Medium And Why I’m Back

Acknowledging self-doubt and moving beyond its clutches. — I started this year with a sense of purpose. For far too long, I’d been selling a story to myself — that I can only become a writer if I write something truly transformative. What this fallacy did not take into account was the yawning gap between effort and result…

Self Doubt

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Why I Stopped Writing On Medium And Why I’m Back
Why I Stopped Writing On Medium And Why I’m Back

Published in Ascent Publication

·May 28, 2020

Your Obsession With Perfection Is Threatening Your Dreams

Choose momentum over idealization. — I tend to be a perfectionist when it comes to my work. I’m not proud of it. I visualize my goals as idealized dreams. I place these dreams on gilded pedestals and worship them reverentially as divine indicators of a self-articulated success. Trouble is, raising dreams to this lofty status…

Productivity

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Your Obsession With Perfection Is Threatening Your Dreams
Your Obsession With Perfection Is Threatening Your Dreams

Published in Be Yourself

·May 10, 2020

How Are You Doing?

The question I no longer have an answer for. — I logged on to a work call yesterday. How are you, I was asked. Pretty simple question, requiring a one word response. That expected one-word response felt strangely blasphemous to me. A single word utterance that would effectively camouflage a highly convoluted state of mind. I was clearly overthinking this. …

Life

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How Are You Doing?
How Are You Doing?

May 10, 2020

To Mom, With Love (From 8000 Miles Away)

A collection of dog-eared memories, to celebrate you. — My phone buzzes at 5 pm sharp. A WhatsApp message from my mother, who’s just waking up at 530 am in India. Mom: Hi… all okay? Me: Yes. There? Mom: Okay here too. Going to make tea. Talk in a bit. In these seemingly terse words is hidden an ocean…

Relationships

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To Mom, With Love (From 8000 Miles Away)
To Mom, With Love (From 8000 Miles Away)

Published in The Book Mechanic

·Apr 28, 2020

10 Things That Changed When I Started Writing Everyday

There’s a reason everyone’s telling you to do it. — You want to be a writer, you need to write every day. Pretty straightforward advice, right? But, it just didn’t seem like something I could manage. Sure, I wrote daily when I was working on my PhD or way back, when I had an advertising job. But that was different…

Writing

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10 Things That Changed When I Started Writing Everyday
10 Things That Changed When I Started Writing Everyday

Published in Be Yourself

·Apr 17, 2020

The Charred Hill Across My Window

A meditation on hope. — On a particularly stifling summer day last August, I lay on my bed, propped up by pillows, staring out the window. I had just returned home from a wisdom tooth surgery and was still foggy from the anasthesia. The first siren didn’t faze me, even though it sounded ominously close…

Hope

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The Charred Hill Across My Window
The Charred Hill Across My Window
Sangeeta Marwah, PhD

Sangeeta Marwah, PhD

Mom. Writer. Designer. Professional day-dreamer.

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