• When You Cannot Beat Death

    If you could switch lives with a famous person for a week, who would it be and why? I have seen people with all the money in the world still unable to beat death. So, I choose to live my own life for a week. Read more

  • Writing Was Therapy Before It Became a Hobby

    How do you manage stress? Journal entries, poems, at this point, anything that bothers me. It doesn’t have to be every day, and I do not expect to write every day. It is now so much a part of what I want that it just… Read more

  • Not Invincible, Just Winter

    Why I Am Who I Am? The winter always takes me by surprise. How did I survive last year? That is my question every year. That is how I feel about falling for the wrong people. Why did I do it last time, and how… Read more

  • Love Is Not So Complex

    Why Am I Obsessed With Blue? Blue as it can be, and reminds me of the ocean, so familiar yet not safe. I will jump without a full description of what I am walking into. No hugs, no smiles, just no eye contact. That is… Read more

  • Biggest Self sabotage

    How I failed Myself? If I cannot be my own voice and stand strong against all kinds of words, I believe I have failed myself, big time. If I cannot stand against all my enemies and not allow even the slightest dent, I have failed… Read more

  • From The Vault

    Why I Wrote A Poem When I Felt The Worst? Waited until I felt better to post this. I write this at my worst,thoughts running in cyclesand no shut-eye. Why would I write at my worst,with a broken mirror,a black cat crossing the road,a glass… Read more

  • A Poem After Four Months

    Why Connections Matter More Important Than Love ? I fell in love once or twice,not the way I’d seen in fairy tales,so I said to myself, not real. Now it is burnt into my memory,and everyone who is here,I love with a full heart. I… Read more

  • I Stole My Answer

    Which celebrity would you love to meet, and what would you talk about? I remember the actor Jonathan Roumie from The Chosen answering a similar question. I believe he was asked, “If you could have a cup of coffee with Jesus, what is the one… Read more

  • Failed The 100th Time

    Why is change so difficult? Our brains tend to prefer familiarity and predictability. Uncertainty can trigger a stress response because our brains are trying to work out what to expect and whether we are safe. You will see people who have failed for the hundredth… Read more

  • Lost In Translation

    Why Love Is Love? When the internet defines love as complex and deep, all I have seen and felt is how simple and fulfilling love is. When people label love as sin, I know they have lost the meaning of love in translation. They have… Read more

  • Consistency Combats Mood

    Why should our mood not affect our work ? If we rely on our mood to direct our productivity, we are in the trenches, not wanting to even move. Most days, I’d rather just write and not do anything else. But some days, I am… Read more

  • Think Twice And Do It

    What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain? Just do what you know will work, do not over analyse small decisions. Trust your gut. Regret is only when you do not even try and get stuck… Read more

  • Healthcare Assistant’s Perspective

    Why Be A Healthcare Assistant? I have worked as a Healthcare Assistant for over two years now. Every carer I have met has a different reason for becoming a Healthcare Assistant, from why they joined the profession to why they are still in it. What… Read more

  • Beauty In Uncertainty

    Would you rather know your future or be able to change your past? I would not be where I am if I changed the past. Knowing the future would only take away the enthusiasm of following my curiosity. I’d be more focused on changing the… Read more

  • Never The Same

    Tell us about your morning routine. It is different every day. Which is not that good for me. The first thing I do is drink, a lot of water. The only thing that is the same every day. I know what I want to do… Read more

  • Simply Being Present

    When do you know if you have connected with someone? If we can spend time in silence together without wanting to fill it with words, I know I have made a strong connection.It has to be a person who loves to talk but is also… Read more

  • Obsess Over Being Balanced

    Why Does Everything Feel So Broken and not So When Looked Zoomed Out? I always thought that if I zoomed in on any situation, I could solve it. Not really, not by the slightest. It just makes everything worse. I am not saying that sweeping… Read more

  • Unique Understanding of World

    Are We How We Were Created, or Do We Change? The assumption that we are a certain way has no place in the 21st century, where we have unravelled emotional regulation. Empathy has opened up an understanding of areas where being a certain way applies.… Read more

  • Fastest Way To Know Someone

    If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them? Can I be your friend? That’s the first thing that came to my mind. I’m a kid at heart. I know the fastest way to get to know someone is to be their friend.… Read more

  • Friends To Lovers

    Why Most Relationships Fade? Mutual respect goes a long way in maintaining any relationship. Putting people on a pedestal is different from mutual respect. And here is why: we forget to see a person for who they are if we put them on a pedestal,… Read more

  • Knowing What To Be When

    What’s the most underrated life skill? Many times this skill can go unnoticed, mostly when you are focusing on being what others think you should be. We have many skills but when to use which one makes us who we are, relentless, resilient, even stubborn… Read more

  • Explore Before Settling

    Why Did I Go Back To The First Company I Worked For? There is a very natural curiosity to explore the work you like in different companies, especially if you have only worked for one company. That was the position I was in, and I… Read more

  • Follow Your Own Growth

    What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by? I have heard many, none of them helped. Just have good morals, and that will bring you back from the worst situations. Knowing that I could always be myself, that I am a good person without… Read more

  • Not Always For Me.

    What makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning? Sometimes it is the work that I love, sometimes the sun, and when both of these things look bleak, myself. Other times, I get out of bed for others. I need to be… Read more

  • There Is Something For Everyone

    What’s the best way to explore a new city? Talk to the locals. Google Maps does not tell you anything about the real experience, only fragments of it.Enter a bar or a café and just interact with people. I am too introverted to have to… Read more

  • Not Credited But Maybe Most Valuable

    If you could instantly become excellent at one skill, what would it be? I believe it is a skill, but very much not credited. To read people, you cannot really know people, and I feel people changing is a huge reason why it is not… Read more

  • Present Is The Greatest Gift

    What’s a moment in your life that made you feel truly alive? Every time I decide to be in the present, I feel truly alive. Most of my life, I have lived in fantasy because I was too scared to face reality. As a kid,… Read more

  • Finding That Balance With Necessities

    What everyday invention do you think has changed human life the most? Smartphones, no matter the age. I think smartphones have changed human life the most. They have taken over our lives to a point where we are sedentary. So my whole point of walking… Read more

  • Wider Than a Single Wish

    The genie grants you a wish. What is it? Safety for all vulnerable people. That was not actually the first thing that came to mind. What came to mind was, “Save all infants that are sick.” But then I thought I had only one wish,… Read more

  • All Eggs In One Basket

    What are your favorite side-hustle ideas? I had many dreams, and I envied people who could put everything into one dream and become an expert in that area. I think that has changed for me. You become what you want. As soon as I saw… Read more

  • Nature Also Feels Like Home

    What are five simple exercises to do at home? Planks that I have not done in the last four years, child’s pose that, again, I have not done in the last four years, weightlifting with 5–8 kg weights that can be purchased online, which, again,… Read more

  • Not The Glue

    Which relationship has taught you the most about yourself? Friendships that faded with time taught me that I have grown and grown apart to the point that there is no point in holding on to some of them. To the point where it has opened… Read more

  • Strong You Say You Are

    Why crying in your safe space matters? I pray it rains every time you are sad so the sun doesn’t take away your fear of feeling the feelings. You wrapped up each time in so many layers, you lost count of your own hiding places.… Read more

  • Joy in Food Than Counting Calories

    What are your best healthy eating habits? I try not to eat anything after 7 pm. Any fruit at 11 am, because our metabolism is at its peak function during that time.Since the new discovery that Indians consume more rice, dal and carbs than protein,… Read more

  • Alone, Never Lonely

    Are you really lonely when you are alone? Alone, never was lonely, and I say it lovingly. Crowds were enough to feel less alone, maybe not really, maybe a conversation with a single person was enough, not really maybe walking alone is what I needed.… Read more

  • Transformed Spark

    Do You Still Have The Spark? Yes, I’d like to think I still have it. But a recent self-assessment says otherwise. I do not have the spark that I had as a child. I have a transformation of the spark. You see, I have changed… Read more

  • Do the Crime, Do the Time

    Do you believe in karma? I thought I did, but I did not. I believed in justice. People should get some sort of punishment to learn to stop doing wrong things. Over time, if appropriate punishment is not given for minor wrongdoings like petty theft,… Read more

  • Her Life, His Escape and My Existence

    What’s a book, film, or song that changed the way you think? Book: Becoming by Michelle ObamaEveryone’s journey is so different and unique, with moments that change everything for them, and sometimes it all happens in front of the world. I was a viewer in… Read more

  • I Write What I Learn

    How do you write what people actually want to read? Keeping up with the trends is not my answer. I just live my life, and whatever I learn, I write about it. May it be articles or poems. I do not write for people; I… Read more

  • Three Essentials, Three Reasons

    If you had to delete every app from your phone except three, which would you keep? WhatsApp, Brave and Jetpack. To stay in contact with everyone, the most valued app is WhatsApp. Brave, because I can watch YouTube without ads. WordPress, where I share my… Read more

  • Willing to Lose Familiarity

    What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done? Moved to a new country for a better lifestyle. Not really spontaneous, more just out of knowing how work is more important for me and that toxic work culture will hurt my interests in the long run… Read more

  • Study both, patterns and human behaviour

    How to understand a system well enough to know when it is working? I have such joy when I understand the system. I have such anger when I know the system is working to hurt people, especially if it is beyond criminal. Only for the… Read more

  • Burnout is not Passion

    How do you make time for self-care? I had to make sure that I gave myself a designated time to look after myself. When I did not, starting out in the healthcare sector, having to put in extra effort was not as consistent as I… Read more

  • Some Form Of Prince

    What’s the only thing good about Fairy Tales? I might have lost the plot of the whole existence of the fairy tales system from movies we grew up watching. But love still has me pausing my whole life and questioning if I will ever find… Read more

  • A place that felt like home.

    What’s a place you visited that felt like home? Fatima, Portugal. One of the holiest places in the world. I felt calm as soon as I was on the bus in Lisbon. Maybe it was because we had a very early flight. More than that,… Read more

  • Developed and not born with

    What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life? Singing, I see now that it is a skill built over time with practice and shaping as you find your range. I always thought it was something you were always born with. Not… Read more

  • A Hippogriff – Harry Potter

    If you could pick any fictional animal to be your lifelong companion (like a Pokémon or fantasy pet), what would it be? A Hippogriff, I felt like it respects its boundaries and will not let just anyone get on its back. Has a very adorable… Read more

  • 4

    Just showing me how far I am from where I want to be. And the silence in my head that followed got louder and louder. I stopped my growth. Will I ever walk the walk my journey and allow myself to feel the pain. Will… Read more

  • 5

    If you jump a little while you walk, consider yourself very lucky. Because most adults have lost the pep in their step. While I fight for mine to keep forever. They seem to modify into something that has no joy, while I wish fun was… Read more

  • 8

    From worrier to warrior of my own soul. I am not invincible but invisible strength that shows on demand.Disappearing for emptiness to flood everything in me. They say it is, what it is to be a human. I see dumb on my face, and Geeky… Read more

  • 6

    What is the point of worrying when everything happens just the way you played it would happen only like a million times in your mind.What is the point of worrying when everything happens, regardless of our plans, our plans be damned universes have a way… Read more

  • 7

    I played the same tape from my past, I sometimes see a train rack or maybe the best I ever lived. Only to be here and not anywhere else, anywhere else other then here would have been a miracle, I missed by a wrong Google… Read more

  • Nap away all

    Nap had the power to take away what my mind was refusing to let go. I felt like a new person with a cape and eye patch, only to sail this ship off the edge. Only to land on my feet at the end of… Read more

  • My burnt toast

    This story starts every time you missed a bus to somewhere you can take the next bus and still be two minutes early then you are supposed to be there. Burnt toast theory I missed the bus and still have no regrets, if you had… Read more

  • Adulting with Burnout

    To continue, from something we left behind. To add, to something we have already seen. It only shows me, it is not the same no matter the similarities. To have everything or to feel you have everything. A big lie, we told ourselves. A big… Read more

  • Words Have Me Hostage

    Words That Have me Hostage, is poem written by Calosha. Expressing her back and forth with hope and faith. Read more

  • Neither Perfection Nor A Pleaser

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  • I Pray

    I pray it rains everytime you are sad so the sun doesn’t take away your fear of feeling the feelings. You wrapped up each time in so many layers, you lost count of your own hiding places. This rain also has been hiding your sadness… Read more

  • While I am,

    What I learnt is that if something is meant to be, no thunder and no lightning can stop it from displaying. While I say this,I also knowI said “no” many a time, and that stopped a full cycle of pain and misery. While I say… Read more

  • Slow Fade

    Slow music at the sound of falling waterfall. I keep all the meaning behind water that falls on my face meaningless, only to call it a miracle. Spotless without any water mark by nature. I mostly flew below all these falling waves, most of my… Read more

  • If I Had To Write.

    If I had to, only write about love, I’ll be writing about suffering in silence and dying in horror for enduring, not really speaking up, for love. Is that, what love is for you? Is it, dying in silence? I pray you leave and lock… Read more

  • They Said

    They said it was okay to be a butterfly in hell, and I rose to the occasion and left them speechless. Moving in the cave with light feet, scared I’ll wake up the dragon within me. Like the way I burnt all bridges that day.… Read more

  • Not really my plans.

    All my plans, really not mine, or are they? As soon as they come by, I see why I shouldn’t force any. A dog with a bone, now water that fits into any. All the plans made, not really mine, or are they? All this… Read more

  • Same Fights, Yours And Mine

    I am on borrowed time, now catching up to all my good doings. Seven cat lives, with six different fights, fighting at the same time. Who holds my hand is dismissed by many. I can’t debate them, so I live all six lives and fight… Read more

  • Friday

    My soul told my mind a sad story on a Friday: “Wood from the tree, nails from the ground deep within. A hammer from the minds who wanted to make it easier to pierce a nail through. Now pounded on the flesh of the immortal.… Read more

  • Our Place

    I said many things, many times over, in the same span of time. Now it is a new hour, time for old habits to die young. Correcting with red ink and a kiss on the cheek. I was so lucky to have empathy for someone… Read more

  • Vengeance that is Not Mine

    Keeping track of the track record left behind by all whom I have a tendency to forget, who had a hand in lowering the knife from the back of my heart. Forgiveness was never supposed to be forgetting what was written by my own blood… Read more

  • Let’s Get To It

    I say, “Let’s get back to it.” How love in life is less about love and more about if they treated you right — and I can say without a doubt, they didn’t. How hope in life is less about enjoying the present and more… Read more

  • This Story – The One and The Other

    “This Story” series of stories written by Calosha Gomes on everyday life. How living is not really living if freedom, peace and above all, conditions placed on were and how One or the Other even breaths. How everything is labeled as unnatural and natural is… Read more

  • Back

    I am back in the cold wind, flying higher than the last time I walked these streets. The green light is on my side, and so is the sidewalk on the right side of the universe. The sky is what I waited for fondly, and… Read more

  • Destiny can’t be stolen

    Empty page on Monday morning, filled with everything — every single error and every failure staring at the soul by Saturday. I say one statement; everything crumbles into laughter. Well, I have taken this beautiful life way too seriously for a beautiful soul. Empty mind… Read more

  • Present

    The sun, piercing through my skin like never before. Maybe the long-awaited year is the reason why. The wind now has the same numbing impact as the cold I had gone to, doesn’t allow me to be depressed. The chaos that I had once left… Read more

  • Only Need

    To not be anything other than who I see when all chaos is calm. To stay that way not just during the calm, but also when chaos hits, unexpectedly. The need to be a good person has now evolved into surrendering my heart, because I… Read more

  • Peace Is a Privilege

    You hated yourself so much it became a part of you. You see love for the first time; it feels and looks foreign. So you run away. You self-sabotage. You don’t understand until it’s too late. You take the lesson and write it in your… Read more

  • Off The Shoulder

    I have turned into something that I could never unsee. I feel complete, and now I can’t imagine going back. I do fall and I do stumble. Still, I know I will continue to do so. What changed is that I’ll stumble and fall with… Read more

  • Floating Boat – Innocence

    Remember the paper boat I made in class so I could watch it sail in the stream of water built by the heavy rain, to see shock—just to see it shred. The joy of an innocent mind. Now I am too scared to build anything… Read more

  • Keeping The Cold Out

    The frozen ground and the chill in the air can’t fade the warmth in my heart or my will to step outside. No coat could keep the cold out, no voice could warm this path. I grabbed the collar of my own shirt so no… Read more

  • Nothing Beats. Feeling Unsafe

    Nothing beats risking what I worked for. The whole year of dedication was about to crash and burn. I pulled the plug before I could get sucked in. I stepped aside before losing my whole future. I chose my safety before choosing how much I… Read more

  • Dead Of Night – Stepping Away

    I stood outside, before I walked in, to feel all the emotions, because nothing is worse than locking them in. I walked to get there, with all the flashbacks in front of my eyes. No tears left—the pillow stole them all, in the dark of… Read more

  • Cinderella In Sheep’s Clothing

    I open a new tab on a new year. The empty space feels hopeful. No shade of ink, feels like an ocean with no horizon. I looked at the eyes before I wrote for the last few months; it meant something to me. Now, all… Read more

  • A Day Before The Last

    Second to the last, I close my eyes as the water fills my lungs and I don’t suffer anymore. I breathe beneath this unbreathable, not so unfamiliar space. No longer afraid to be drowned in unwanted grief. A feeling is feeling. What’s not right, I… Read more

  • Fragile

    Fragile but inner strength that can defeat all outer spaces. Fragile into the eyes of insecure beings, but love that takes away breath. Fragile body with the strongest smile and soul that breaks all borders. Fragile in everything that doesn’t matter, what matters protected in… Read more

  • More Than Facing

    More Than Facing | Something Out Of A Real Movie | Reality Of CalCon The scene where I saw beauty in the strongest wind that stopped me from walking towards my worst fears. I never just faced my fears; I looked into the eyes of… Read more

  • Not Worried

    If all my steps were stolen from me, I wouldn’t worry. If someone called me a fool, I wouldn’t worry. If someone called me a liar, I wouldn’t worry. If someone I cared about left me, I wouldn’t worry. If I die today, I won’t… Read more

  • Someplace Else

    I said I’ll write again when I know I am okay to face it. More, that I’ll put myself out there when I feel safer. My safety was stolen by the one who I was loyal to. I magnify every word and see how the… Read more

  • one in a million that I feel calm with.

    An unknown language calms me, right? Korean has an effect on the soul. Not understanding has me not really paying attention. I could fall asleep playing BTS in the background, with my eyes closed on a pillow in a strange land with strange people whose… Read more

  • Darkest Side Of Humanity

    I noticed you walked away. My shadow has left me before I could catch up with my emotions that weighed me down. The darkness consumed every phase. If my eyes were the moon, now they are darker than any brown. Almost black eyes with almost… Read more

  • Another Reason To Lead With Love.

    Another reason to know that love always sets everything free, and the power in love is always beyond hate and beyond revenge. Walk towards what fits your principles and walk away from what crosses ethical principles. If anything makes you feel, “Oh, this is crossing… Read more

  • My Adiós

    I sat across from my worst nightmare, and she spoke with words like maybes and howevers. I don’t remember your face; all I remember is how you spoke. Teaching me how not to speak with anyone for the remainder of my life. Teaching me how… Read more

  • Cycled Through

    I cycled through all my clothes in my closet, and on the last grey sweater, they told me to leave, and I smiled as I stepped outside. Not because they let me go, but because I found my dream and my passion shining even after… Read more

  • I was told to be there at 10 and not 9.

    First, let me reintroduce my intentions to someone on the other side, who I used to be. I have lost a few skins to get where I am right now. Second, let me reintroduce that the first one is still an ongoing process at this… Read more

  • My Misfortune

    This silence before I step into the fifth gear is a relief. Unused potential waiting to shine, and seeing that potential being shut down—two different things that hurt the same way. This silence before I step onto the world’s stage, holding my head up high,… Read more

  • December Reminder

    December Reminder – Calosha Gomes December reminds me to pack all my memories in the boxes I opened in January. December reminds me to check up on my soul, my year-long battles, and the love I shared. Reminds me to take a look at my… Read more

  • Poem By Calosha Gomes

    Poem by Calosha Gomes This will see the light of the day when this chapter is wrapped tighter than any knot. This will see the light of the day when this chapter is closed completely. This will see the light of the day when I… Read more

  • This Writer

    The writer of this story has left the call. Nothing compares to having to stick around when the betrayal hits like this. The writer of this story can barely hold on to what’s left, and that’s not much. Keep telling this writer: what you need… Read more

  • Where I Already Know

    Poem By Calosha Gomes I write to pick up my fallen confidence, where there is no fallen confidence. I speak to problem solving, where there is no problem. I wake up to carry my own curiosity of living in the present, where being in the… Read more

  • Denied Authenticity

    Poem By Calosha Gomes The freedom from thinking about what others might say or think if you are yourself is more than freedom; it is the embracing of your own authenticity. Why do people deny their own authenticity? Why can’t we embrace our flaws and… Read more

  • Too Scared To Utter

    There are few words that rarely leave my mouth and I Care About You More Than You Know. These are the words I am too scared to utter. I care but rather work on making people around me more comfortable. That’s my love language, I… Read more

  • Love And Despise

    What I despised, now music to my ears. Sometimes a mix of both, because I could never love anything that much. Not more than my own safety. I could hate and love something. That only shows I love it coming from the right people or… Read more

  • It Is Pinned

    Poem By Calosha Gomes I pinned all knowledge and now I have everything pinned. Nothing, goes unseen before my eyes. I might observe everything, but I believe there is still more to observe. My quick questions and the answers I have can more than heal.… Read more

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