Essays

  • Editor’s Letter: WeLived, Reimagined

    Editor’s Letter: WeLived, Reimagined

    Four years after launching in 2022, WeLived enters its second chapter with a new look, a clearer editorial direction and more stories to tell.

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  • Wheels on the Ground

    Wheels on the Ground

    Eleven flights into the year, I just realised I’ve spent more than my calendar in transit. I’ve spent much of my twenties there too.

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  • Cry Fast, Work Faster

    Cry Fast, Work Faster

    Face to face with my own mortality. One moment I was celebrating life, dancing with friends and feeling certain that better days had finally arrived. Hours later, I was escaping death.

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  • Hurry Up and Heal

    Hurry Up and Heal

    And maybe that’s what wellness actually is. Not performing happiness.

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  • Owning my time

    Owning my time

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  • Deciding is Power

    Deciding is Power

    For a moment, I lived inside Anaconda, minus the snakes, except for the puff adder that slithered under my boot.

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  • Loss set the Tone

    Loss set the Tone

    Life can get worse. Or it can get better. The difference is not luck. It is not timing. It is choice.

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  • For The Sake

    For The Sake

    This piece is to set tone for the week. It is to assure my pens that their bleeding is never in vein. Especially these days – seeing that vanity has taken centre stage.

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  • Words that land, Not leak

    Words that land, Not leak

    This isn’t the end. It’s the quiet, shaky, deeply personal beginning of something I don’t have a name for yet.

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  • The Moulding of Trying Times

    The Moulding of Trying Times

    My world is obsessed with results. I am learning that trying times are the crucibles in which patience is tested and refined.

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