Translucent Thoughts

  • Depression Intelligence

    I have taken a hundred and two-day voluntary hiatus from writing for this blog. Not for my usual reasons for never posting: for example, crippling imposter syndrome or being all-around uninspired but, rather a different and more unusual reason. I have been doing well. For the past hundred and two days, I have been reading,…

  • Uncertainty & Our Fig Trees

    Uncertainty seems to be a common theme in my life. Big or small, I am uncertain. Uncertain about tomorrow or next year or the year after that. Before reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar,  I was unable to articulate this feeling meaningfully. To make it digestible to myself and others without sounding pretentiously cryptic. I would have…

  • Writing the Past & Present

    Recently, I finished the novel A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. If I had to use one word to describe the book, I would say that it was honest; maybe too honest. A Little Life details the life of Jude St. Francis, an enigmatic character tainted by trauma. A Little Life left no room for the reader to make a metaphor…

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion & Losing Adolescence

    At its surface, Neon Genesis Evangelion is a story about children in robots. Dig a bit deeper, it is a story littered with religious iconography and isolation. And at its core, it is a tale about adolescence, specifically losing it. Many people watch NGE and jump straight into the Freudian-ness of it all. I won’t…

  • Identity Overexertion

    In 7th grade, I went to the school counselor because I had admitted that I was experiencing anxiety. I blamed the whole feeling on my mother, who wanted me to continue swimming while I wanted to do theatre. I didn’t have much against swimming except for the fact that I wasn’t great. I was 13…