16/01/2026
2026 was a year choc-a-bloc filled with so many endings. I remember buying three journals just to process how intense it all felt. I moved back to the UK and decided to invest in myself. Thank you, SOAS.
It was the year I learned how to smile, even as my world felt like it was ending. From the outside, everything looked steady, but a lot was falling apart.
Looking back now, I can see how much that season shaped me. Now a decade on, and I am grateful for the tough shiny scales it gave me, but let’s never go back. Not even for my cutey-patootey collagen-rich skin, or even for my (now) enviable aegyo sal. No thank you.
#2016
