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Growing up, a question that I've always asked myself and to be honest, still ask myself is "Who I'm I?" "What do I culturally identify as?" For a while, especially whilst I've been at uni, I know that I would have answered 'Tamil' without any hesitation. But when Census Day came around and I had to fill in the question 'What is your national identity' or something, I honestly felt as if I was in high school going through a cultural identity crisis all over again and it's been bugging me since.  When I was filling out the question, I kept going back and changing the answer. Initially I put Tamil, but went back and changed to French, and the cycle kind of just repeated itself until eventually I just settled with Tamil. But it got to a point where I was just like, I kinda wish I didn't just put just Tamil and I put French too. And I'll briefly explain why. Being born in France and having most of my childhood there, I feel like I ...

how we've all been throughout 2020 Since I've started this blog, it's been kind of my thing to do a quick recap as to how the year has been for me, so that I could look back on it in the future and just see how much has changed in general but also how I have changed.  As the year comes to an end,  I think it's fair to say that 2020 has been extremely funky and just filled with lots of uncertainty. We don't know when everything is going to go back to 'normal', so we just have to learn and adapt to the new 'norm' that we've been having to experience for the past year. But, let's be honest. It's been tough. This year has been full of ups and downs. But with everything that has happened this year, I can honestly say that I've learnt a lot. Not just about everything that has gone on in society and in the world but also about myself. Throughout this pandemic, one of the major things I've learnt is that you really can't keep looking ...

When I started this blog two years ago, I've said this so many times but it's because I felt  unaccomplished and I wanted to change that. So I decided to do it in a way that I was most comfortable with, to write everything down as a way to express myself when I felt like I couldn't. Find a way to share my thoughts, in the hopes that someone might feel the same way and start a conversation.  Anyone who knows me, knows that I hate small talk and that one of my favourite things to do is to have debates and just have a good old conversation about anything and everything. Not only that but at the time, it was and still is in some way, a good distraction.  So starting a blog in the hopes to start conversations, to me, just made sense.  The first time that I really shared my blog to everybody and not just small group of people was after I had published my ‘ Embrace your culture ’ post. When I saw the amount of positive feedback that I had gotten, it...

problem of evil Dictionary result for colourism meaning: the problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God. The existence of moral evil and natural evil causes a great amount of debate amongst philosophers, especially as it questions the nature of God. Moral evil is caused by human beings through actions whilst natural evil is caused by natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.. There are many arguments that can be proposed, whether it's in favour of the statement or not.  For example, many individuals would argue that if God really was omnibenevolent , omnipotent and omniscient. Then why would he allow evil to exist? St Augustine argued that the existence of evil is the result of the Original Sin. Whilst Irenaeus would have a different approach and argue that the main reason as to why God would allow evil to exist is because there's a purpose for it. He will still rea...

Like a lot of people during the last few months, being at home and not doing much has really allowed me to reflect on not only life in general, but myself. I've always wanted to be the best version of myself and everyday I work towards that goal, even when I reach a stumbling block, no matter how many steps back I'll take. I will try to make sure that I'm back on the path that I came off of. But my fears will always hold me back, no matter how many times I try to keep moving forwards. Now, what do I fear the most? I believe that I fear a lot of things and that's fine. Because they're usually pretty small and generic and doesn't affect me the way my   biggest fears do. So what are my biggest fears? Well, I have two. The first one is being myself and the second one is  failure . These two fears have held me back for so many years and I feel as if I don't overcome these fears, I'll miss out on many more opportunities.  Why is being myself a fear of mine? I...

I recently read a blog post about the new decade being the most important decade of our lives for a lot us. We're going to be graduating, getting our dream jobs, getting married and maybe even starting a family. And no joke, after I had read this post I just sat there proper deeping it. The upcoming years are going to be insane and full of obstacles that we're going to have to face but it's always important to remind yourself that you've got to always put yourself no matter what but also that there's no rush to get everything done within a certain age or time. we're all growing old I feel like we've always been given these 'deadlines' to achieve certain things, maybe there's more pressure in Asian communities but it's always been the idea that as soon as you finish university at the age of 21, it's start your job and get married as soon as you can. Especially as there's this weird thing that Tamils believe that the older you ge...

HELLOOOOO FRIENDSSSSSSSSSSS Helloooo!! I know it's been a big fat minute, but here I am! Back better than ever, with a recap of 2019.   How crazy is it that 2019 is coming to an end, what's even crazier is that a whole decade is coming to an end and there's honestly so much that I've learnt throughout the last ten years. When I think about where I was at the beginning of 2019 to where I am now it honestly baffles me but as sappy as it's going to sound, I am proud of the person that I have become. And for those who are reading this and have known me for years would know that me, feeling proud of myself is a very rare occasion. I am also content with how everything is finally working out, it's been a long and overwhelmingly hard journey to get to this sense of satisfaction that I have been feeling lately but we've finally gotten there lads, so WAHEYYY!  me celebrating 24/7 There are many things that I have realised and learnt this year, but ...