This series is an attempt to document one of the most transformative periods of my life. For seven years, I lived as a monk. During those years, I experienced discipline, doubt, silence, devotion, friendship, loss, and a way of living that was radically different from the modern world. Many of the lessons that shape my […]
Dear God, Do not make my journey easy,for easy roads have never taught me who I am. Instead,give me the strength of the mountain,that I may remain standingwhen storms arrive without warning,when the winds of doubt grow fierce,and when the weight of life feels heavier than my shoulders can bear. Give me courage,not the courage
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For a long time, I felt disconnected from the world. Not in a dramatic way. From the outside, everything looked normal. I attended college, talked to people, smiled when expected, and tried to keep up with life like everyone else. But internally, I was struggling. I was carrying questions that seemed impossible to answer. Questions
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“A reflection on why I stopped asking for success and started asking for the qualities required to earn it.” For a long time, my prayers sounded like most people’s prayers. I wanted opportunities.I wanted progress.I wanted recognition.I wanted my plans to work. But recently, something changed. These days, I find myself repeating the same three
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For years, I lived heavily inside my own mind. I observed people.Studied psychology.Analyzed emotions.Reflected on society.Spent years understanding spirituality, silence, loneliness, discipline, emotional pain, identity, masculinity, detachment, and transformation. But most of it happened internally. Inside rooms.Inside notebooks.Inside thoughts. I built theories about life. But theories and reality are two different worlds. Travel made me
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There was a time when I used to watch travelers through a mobile screen. Mountains, roads, sunsets, cafés, rivers, people exploring life — all of it felt like another universe to me.A universe I could only observe digitally. And honestly, for most of my life, I had not even traveled my own city properly. So
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