Posts by Mahak Singhal

Sarah pulled into her driveway at 6:30 PM, watching the first fat snowflakes drift lazily past her windshield. "Just a dusting," she thought, grabbing her purse from the passenger seat.…

I watched a woman in her seventies stroll through the bustling airport terminal yesterday, hands clasped gently behind her back while chaos swirled around her. Travelers rushed past with phones…

Sarah grabbed her morning coffee and opened her weather app, expecting the usual winter forecast. Instead, she found herself staring at a temperature prediction that made her double-check the date.…

Sarah stared at her kitchen counter, fighting the urge to scream. She'd already been late for work twice this week, and now she couldn't find her car keys anywhere. They…

Sarah stares at her phone: 11:43 PM. She's been "productive" for sixteen hours straight – emails during breakfast, podcast while walking the dog, even reorganizing her digital photos while watching…

Sarah stares at her laptop screen, cursor blinking in an empty email. She was writing a response to her manager about the quarterly report when her phone buzzed with a…

The notification came at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. "Insufficient funds for automatic payment." I stared at my phone, confused. Just three days earlier, my checking account showed over $2,800.…

Sarah stares at her laptop screen, the cursor blinking in an empty email draft. It's 7:15 p.m., and she's been "finishing up work" for the past hour. Her family ate…

Sarah stared at her coffee mug, already cold by 9 AM. She'd been meaning to drink it for the past hour, but kept getting distracted by her phone buzzing on…

Sarah stared at her reflection in the hotel bathroom mirror, running late for an important client meeting. Her shoulder-length hair hung limp despite twenty minutes of blow-drying and styling. The…