I was working in the hospital work during covid. During the height of the pandemic, finding moments of levity was a vital survival tactic for me navigating the intense atmosphere of hospital administration. Managing patient feedback and high-stakes disputes during such a volatile period meant being at the center of collective anxiety, where every conversation required immense emotional regulation. In the rare quiet moments between resolving complex grievances, the viral "toilet roll" jokes...

Do you recall the times you fell as a child while learning how to walk? No matter how badly you fall, you would always get up and try again.  That’s how we learnt how to walk eventually. Children live in the moment.  They have the Beginners mind. They don’t have lots of assumption.  They just simply curious and they would experiment. They try and try again. And they succeed. Curiosity fades as we grow up, shaped by school, social pressure and norms, and the illusion that we already know...

Meet Rene She's 38, a Senior Marketing Manager at a tech firm. From the outside, she has it together — a title she worked years for, a salary that looks impressive on paper, and a wardrobe that says I belong in this boardroom . But most mornings, before her first meeting starts, Priya has already checked her bank account twice, mentally recalculated whether she can cover next month's rent and her student loan payment, and spent twenty minutes in a low-grade panic she can't quite name. By the...