About me

hello, welcome to my website. 🙂

I used to write stories with the letters inverted.

In an old box somewhere, there’s a stack of miniature notebooks with scrawled drawings on the sides, filled with tales about creatures with obscure names and nonsensical aspirations. My teachers would sometimes hold these stories up to mirrors to read them. They say writing is a mirror to the soul, I guess? My work was so incredibly inept they resorted to giving me a certificate for a “witty sense of humour” of all things.

Then I got myself a pair of magical little pink glasses, and now I’ve found myself in the final year of a molecular biology degree. I love science because there’s an element of art to the way countless molecules interact in perfect consort just to keep you alive. It’s like a good song or a poem.

The reason why my stories are stacked up in an old box is probably because people become afraid of sharing stories when they grow up. It’s hard to wake up one day acutely aware that others perceive you – but they always have, and they always will. So here I am rehashing my love of writing and exploring journalism under the terrifying prospect of being perceived.

There’s a quote from The Power of Vulnerability that I like. It goes…

“Perfectionism is very addictive, because it is very seductive. It’s so great to think, ‘there’s a way I can do things where I will never be held in judgement by other people, that I can totally escape criticism.’ But it doesn’t work.”

The people worth your while will hold a mirror up to your inverted letters and try to understand you. Maybe they’ll even give you a certificate for being funny.

But that’s a tough one to crack.