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the thief of joy is pleasing people
I never considered myself too much of a people pleaser, and I’ve been no stranger to rejection in my life. In elementary school, I tried to get into the Gifted & Talented every year. Without fail, every year but fourth grade, I was told that I indeed wasn’t Gifted & Talented. At some point, they Continue reading
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The Deception of Perception: Idolization of Strangers
By Riya Cyriac In today’s world, we know everything, or almost everything. But those small things we don’t really know, the gaps of knowledge, consume us. We crave to know people, but we don’t even know the true depths of a person until you are living inside their body and breathing with their lungs. We Continue reading
About Me
A student at UT Austin. Founder of The Young Writers Initiative.
Riya M. Cyriac 