Coffee & Chaos

Life In the City: 4 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned on the Way to Twenty-Four

I am not the wisest person in the world. In fact, I’m so far away from wisdom that I nearly choked on my coffee when I got a message saying “you should write an article sharing your life lessons with the world!” My self-deprecation rejected the idea before my mind had even had the chance…

What Drip Coffee Taught Me About Myself

At 18, I thought I’d figured myself out. Away from the norms, my home, the grey, navy and white uniform; I felt free to find my own form in a sea of tie-dye and blonde dreadlocks. I would become a ‘creative’ – And, so I created. Mimicking the steps, sounds and actions of those who…

The Power of Playlists: Why You Need to Share Your Music With the Ones You Love

Everything about meeting this new, wonderful, interesting person was like a breath of fresh air I had been craving for longer than I would care to openly admit; but it wasn’t until, one evening as we drove back from our favourite late night Açai spot, he asked, “I’m thinking of getting Apple Music, do you…

Sobriety In the City: In a Place Fueled by Alcohol, What Do You Run On?

It only takes a few months of being a 21+ adult in Dubai to realise that the answer to the standard end-of-the-week small talk question: “Any exciting plans this weekend?” is a tediously repetitive one: “Drinking.” While this is also standard behaviour in nearly every other city from London to Lisbon and beyond (who wouldn’t…

Your Mistakes Don’t Define You- But Your Wardrobe Does

“They’re either fake or you’re borrowing money from your daddy,” a colleague had proudly announced the day I walked into the office wearing my brand spankin’ shiny new pair of white shoes. They weren’t any white shoes though: they were the highly coveted, popularly worn leather sneakers with the trademark green and red on the…

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