True Love

FINDING ‘MY OWN’ BALANCE

“Weekends mean nothing to our generation,” I respond proudly to an Instagram acquaintance who’s just recounted how — on a Friday evening — she’s nowhere near done with her day’s to-do list. For me, the penny dropped when she responded with, “I’m actually trying to come up with ways to practice slow living, while also chasing the career dream.” In that moment, I realised I had normalised, perhaps even romanticised, a habit that had slapped me with a Carpal tunnel syndrome diagnosis and other fatigue-related ailments that

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