Category: Cup of T
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The power of nostalgia
There’s been a common theme circling around the recent events of my 2023. The universe seems to been handing me a lot of opportunities to look back at fragments of my past that have somehow helped me gain a better understanding of my present self. In the last few weeks, I’ve been reconnecting with old…
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Farewell 2022
I attribute my biggest realizations this year to the indisputable seasons of sun and rain. Circumstances I had to deal with in 2022 ended up consuming my entire headspace, altering my perception, and narrowing my sight—like the feeling of standing under the blazing heat of the sun, and letting it painfully pierce through your skin…
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A letter to my 20-year old self
Dear you, Hello from your future self. Can you believe it’s been a month since you turned 26? Somehow it feels like nothing and everything has changed. I know you kept thinking about your late twenties. You had so many hopes and dreams for this age. Didn’t you want to settle down and start a…
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5 habits I learned to prioritize for my holistic health
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Hear me out. I know you’ve seen this headline literally everywhere, and you’re probably thinking, “Ah, this is just going to be another one of those self-help articles”, but I’m writing this because I wish I found something honest and realistic about this topic instead of something so romanticized and…
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Why I quit performing
I started dancing at 3 years old when my parents enrolled me in ballet classes as an after-school activity. It seemed like something I enjoyed and I was very consistent with practice, so it eventually became formal dance training that lasted for almost 17 years. From preschool to high school and even college, dance was…
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Hello, stranger
I’m Trish and I’ve always wanted to start a blog. I had one back in 2013 in the hopes of documenting my life as a teenager heading off to college and leaving home for the first time, but I didn’t really find the time and energy to maintain it. Actually, I might have dipped my…
finding felicity 