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The Gift of Acceptance

21/07/2026 cloudzero7

We spend years looking for happiness. Some chase success, six-pack abs, dream jobs, ocean-view houses, inner peace, an ideal partner and whatever the life algorithm decided we should want this week. But I’ve been thinking… Maybe the rarest feeling isn’t happiness at all, maybe it’s being completely accepted, not the Instagram version of acceptance, not “I accept you… but maybe you could tone it down a little.” or “I love everything about you… except this list of seventeen things I’d like to optimise.” Read more

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Love, Fluently Yours

10/07/2026 cloudzero7

Love is love… right? But love is actually the easy part, understanding each other, that’s where the real work begins.

I realised something fascinating in recent years. Two people can genuinely love each other and still walk away feeling unseen, unappreciated or even unloved and not because the love wasn’t there, but because it arrived in a language the other person didn’t naturally understand. Read more

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The Space Between Us

25/06/2026 cloudzero7

Somewhere along the way, we started confusing love with fusion. We celebrate couples who do everything together. They share hobbies, friendships, passwords, opinions, social media accounts and sometimes it feels like they even share a single personality. People call it relationship goals. To be honest, in my early twenties, I probably would have called it that too. Back then, I thought the closer two people became, the stronger their love must be. It took me years and a fair amount of life to realize that closeness and losing yourself are not the same thing. Read more

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Confessions Of An Emotionally Resilient HR Human

14/05/2025 cloudzero7

People sometimes ask me why I chose a career in HR.
I smile politely, take a long, philosophical sip of coffee, and say:
“I didn’t choose HR. HR just sort of… happened to me. Like a surprise pregnancy. Or lower back pain after 35.”

Some years ago, I didn’t lie awake at night dreaming of policy manuals, internal investigations, or soul-sucking Excel files named something like “2025_Employees_FINAL_REALLY_FINAL.xlsx.”

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The Art of Balanced Lifestyle (Without Losing It)

29/04/2025 cloudzero7

In today’s fast-paced, hyperconnected world, the concept of a “balanced lifestyle” has become both an aspiration and a necessity. Well, let’s be real, modern life resembles juggling fire swords while balancing on a unicycle along a tightrope… over an abyss of emails. You get it now?

Amongst work deadlines, relationships, exercise, mental wellbeing, attempting to hydrate and keeping your hormones sane, seeing “balance” become a reality feels like searching for a mythical place, something between discovering Atlantis and not killing your houseplants.