Marina Keegan was a writer, activist, and student at Yale. Before graduation she shared a few words for her fellow students: We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just…
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Last year for my birthday I went to Norway with 200 of my closest friends. Fun times! This year I went to Bali... by myself. It was a very different experience, but also good.
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Last month in Hong Kong, I went to the New Territories, a part of the region I'd never visited before. It was only half an hour from bustling Kowloon, but it felt like a totally different part of the world.
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Last month in Hong Kong, I went to the New Territories, a part of the city I'd never visited before. It was only half an hour from bustling Kowloon, but it felt like a totally different region.
On the eve of my departure, before I'd fly to Tokyo and then to Los Angeles, I was feeling anxious. I went for an hour-long run, my longest in a while. I set out just as the sun was setting and ran along the water, looking at the Kowloon skyline across the narrow harbor. Read More
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When I venture out in to the world by myself, as I am prone to do from time to time, people sometimes ask, “Don’t you get lonely?”
There are two answers to this question, both of which are true ...
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