A Special Pain Called Growth

My best friend at university had this massive, daunting, 400 page long astrology boo. It had us hunched over with wide eyes and exclamations of “that’s so accurate!” on many pizza-fuelled sleepless nights. Each page of this book was titled a different date of the year, followed by a detailed explanation of what people born…

What Came First: the Chicken or the Mahraganat?

Picture the British population, with all their glories, their English Breakfast teas, their Harry Styles and Sam Smiths, their queens and princes, and of course, their frequent holidays to Spain. Now picture that same population, but instead of 20% of it below poverty line (not a great statistic to begin with), make that double. Now…

The Power of Playlists: Why You Need to Share Your Music With the Ones You Love

Everything about meeting this new, wonderful, interesting person was like a breath of fresh air I had been craving for longer than I would care to openly admit; but it wasn’t until, one evening as we drove back from our favourite late night Açai spot, he asked, “I’m thinking of getting Apple Music, do you…