Category: The Quiet Bloom

I had an interesting conversation with my cousin yesterday. We were talking about why good girls actually finish last — and we both came to the same surprising conclusion. It’s religion. For 34 years, I was the definition of a good Christian girl. I followed every rule, avoided anything remotely “worldly,” and did everything the…

I’ve never understood why people say “God did it” as if that ends the conversation. It’s not an explanation — it’s what people say when they’ve run out of explanations. Like a shrug, dressed up in faith. If you ask, “Why did this happen?” and someone says, “Because God wanted it that way,” what they’re…

There’s a theory that describes religion as behaving like a parasite—not in the moral sense, but in the biological one. It survives by embedding itself in human minds and cultures, feeding off our fears, hopes, and need for belonging. It doesn’t depend on truth for survival; it depends on transmission. Most of us don’t choose…

Growth doesn’t come with guarantees. There’s no map that shows how long it will take or what the final shape will be. Sometimes it looks like nothing is changing on the surface, and other times it feels like everything is happening all at once, too fast to make sense of. But I’ve come to realise…

Some questions in life sit in a strange space—where no amount of evidence, research, or philosophical discussion can really touch them. This is where what’s known as Permanent Agnosticism by Principle comes in. It’s a stance we take on questions that aren’t just unanswered, but likely unanswerable—because they live outside the realm where evidence can…

Sometimes you wake up and wonder, “Why am I here?” Not in some grand spiritual sense, but just… here. Living. Existing. Doing the same things. Wondering if any of it matters. And if you’re like me—someone who doesn’t believe there’s a cosmic plan or divine purpose—it can feel especially heavy. When you strip away the…

Have you ever asked yourself, “What am I even doing with my life?”That quiet, unsettling question that shows up when the days start to blur together. You wake up, move through the motions, go to bed… and somewhere in between, you wonder if you’re actually living or just existing. Let’s be honest—this question doesn’t always…

Have you ever looked at a river and wondered, “Does the river know it is flowing?”Or stood beneath a tree and thought, “Does this tree know it’s a tree?”These questions may seem strange, even childlike. But they open up a deep truth about who we are, and what it means to be conscious. As a…

Starting something new—whether it’s a job, a relationship, a side hustle, or a total life shift—isn’t a declaration that we’ve figured it all out. It’s more like planting a seed in decent soil, watering it with hope, and seeing what grows. Some ventures flourish. Some don’t. That doesn’t mean we were wrong to try. It…