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Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and findĀ pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...
Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when Iād gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white,Ā seated where Jesusā body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot....
I’ve always been bullied. Growing up, I felt no one understood me. I always felt that my parents favoured other people. At least, to my young mind it looked that way ā it seemed they always...
When I wasĀ 9, I wasĀ molested by my uncle. I was silenced; told not to lie. “Kids will be kids,” they said. When I was 11, I finally stood up to my uncle. I shouted at him to āF***...
What storms have you been in? What storm are you nowĀ in? An unwelcome circumstance that arises from the horizon. The sudden turbulence of unpleasant change. Your boat rocks. Gently at first, but...
The number of teenage suicides in Singapore isĀ on the rise. Twenty-sevenĀ Singaporeans aged 10 to 19 killed themselves in 2015 āa 15-year high, and twice as many as the year before....
I write this to every bleeding heart called to the tall order of redemption. Blessed are the poor in spirit … To live in spiritual poverty. To live on scraps. To continually hunger and thirst....
I tried to be the perfect girl. I thought that amid all the hustle and bustle, I was discovering myself.Ā I thought I knew it all. I thought I had figured everything out, had my future panned out in...