Life has come full circle. William Shakespeare, King Leard. Act five, scene three.Edmund says, "Life has come full circle. I'm here." Well, well, well. I'm not here to talk about William Shakespeare. I'm here to discuss the ark of accordance.Think of the circle of life and imagine the wheel of fortune. Life is indeed cyclical. Those at the top may hit the rock bottom and those who are ignored may become unforgettable.The circle of life, my friends, consists of two arcs. The first ark is the one that you do ...

Hello everyone. I'm Rita. I'm a doctor and I was born to a gynecologist mother and a surgeon father in Gaya Bihar.I grew up on top of a hospital literally like quite literally I used to live on top of one. And the thing about having doctor parents is that your lunchtime conversation is not like hey what happened at school. It's mostly hey a patient was struggling.There was a massive loss of blood and we had to push them to OT immediately. So medicine was all around me. Medicine was not just a career choice ...

From the day we are born, does being a woman come with a price that we never agreed to pay. As I grow up, everyone around me always told me, my parents, my family, that I can be anything I want to set my mind to, and that I shouldn't let the suppression that women face affect me. But society had different plans.Society had told me over and over again that being a woman was to be desirable enough to be chosen. My favorite color had to be pink. I was made for the purpose of carrying a child.That my future was ...

Music has always been an integral part of my life throughout the years. Growing up, I couldn't stop moving or singing, and dancing has always been a primary way of expressing my emotions to people. While I was limited to playing musical instruments like the ukulele or recorder in elementary school, in sixth grade, I had the opportunity to pursue something bigger and grander, musical theater.I remember prepping the night before in front of the mirror, stareyed and nervous as I recited lines and made sure I c ...

Boys will be boys. Time and time again, girls of all ages have had these words spoken to them. My first thought when I would hear this, why can't I just be a girl.Why when I do the same things as boys is it looked down upon. Is there a reason as to why it has become normalized in society for girls to be the rule followers. Why do I have to sit with my legs crossed making myself smaller.Why can't I freely walk in a big city without having a constant feeling pulsing through my body telling me that I'm not saf ...

When times feel uncertain, we often look for big solutions, whether that is new technologies or sweeping reforms. But growing up, I was taught something different. When I first started learning to play piano, I was immediately drawn by composers such as Badoin or Mozart.But I didn't know how to play yet. So my parents stopped me and told me to start with my scales. The lesson is simple.You don't start solving big problems by skipping the basics. So today when we talk about shaping moments of today into a be ...

Every grain that falls, ask me the same question. What are you waiting for. And then I'll pretend like I didn't hear it.I'm waiting for the right moment. I'm waiting for the right opportunity. And I'm waiting for the right version of myself when I'm braver, when I'm smarter, and when I'm finally enough.Here's the strange thing about us humans. We fear the time, but this is not our real fear. Our real fear is just the thought that one day the outer glass will empty and they will realize that we spend the who ...

What if Africa's biggest problem is that we remember too much. remember the negative things that we don't collaborate that we don't read that we don't um that we have corrupt leadership um these things have been reiterated and pushed as the representation of Africa I think we need to forget all of that I think Africa needs to forget and I know it's possible because there are so many other things that we have forgotten over time first of which is the fact that we are responsible for creating some of the scie ...

I woke up one Tuesday morning and I did not recognize the life that I had built. I was 32 lying in my childhood bed and I was just taking a moment to reflect on all aspects of my life. I was laid off from a job that I absolutely hated.And I don't even know why I stayed at that job as long as I did. I was on and off again with a boyfriend. And we were in this perpetual state of limbo, not getting anywhere close to marriage, which was what I wanted.And I was desperately trying to build a business because I to ...

roots. The beginning of my birth, the soil beneath my feet, the foundation of me, the bed where I lay my head to dream, but also the place where my dreams stay dreams. A prison unlike any other.No cages, no walls, no guards pacing the corridors. Just one thing. One thing powerful enough to make even the greatest of minds kneel.Fear. Fear dressed in the soft voice of safety. Safety that amplify doubt through tiny whispers of weight.Don't jump. You aren't ready. What if you fail.These whispers set the stage f ...