Raulito

Tag: modern adulthood

  • Everyday Can Be Day One

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    2025 has been the most reflective year of my life. Maybe it’s an age thing. Being in your mid to late thirties does that to you. You start looking around and asking questions you didn’t have the patience or courage to ask before. Where is my life actually going?Is this really what I want for…

  • The Show I Never Finished

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    How I grew up with Friends, but never saw the ending I grew up watching Friends. It was part of the background of my childhood. The jokes, the catchphrases, the endless reruns playing on television at odd hours. It was never something I planned my day around. It was simply always there. Friends played while…

  • The Movie I’ve Never Seen

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    The Bollywood classic everyone quotes… except me. There’s a Bollywood film called Sholay.If you’re Indian, or even loosely Bollywood-adjacent, you already know exactly which one I mean. It’s quoted endlessly.It’s sung.It’s parodied.It’s treated like scripture. And me?I’ve never seen it. Whenever this comes up in conversation, the reaction is immediate and dramatic. Shock. Mock horror.…

  • Why I’ve Stopped Explaining Myself

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    There was a time when I explained everything. Why I spoke the way I spoke. Why I dressed the way I did. Why I liked certain restaurants and not others. Why I was selective about the people I kept close. Why I made some lifestyle choices that didn’t look “normal” or “necessary” to others. For…

  • Things I Quietly Judge (But Keep to Myself)

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    I like to think I’m a fairly tolerant person. I live in a big city. I’ve learnt patience. I’ve learnt to mind my business. I’ve learnt that everyone is fighting their own battles and that judging people rarely leads anywhere useful. And yet. There are things I quietly judge. Internally. Silently. With no intention of…

  • Why I Started Blogging in 2026

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    If you had told me a few years ago that I’d be starting a blog in 2026, I probably would’ve laughed. Blogging felt like something from another internet era. Something we all did, or followed, in the early 2010s. Then somewhere along the way, it faded into the background. Replaced by feeds, reels, stories, algorithms,…

  • Confessions of a Taxi Lover

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    Why you’ll never catch me on the metro Everyone has habits they can’t shake. Mine? Taxis. Or Ubers. Or, back when I was living in Mumbai, rickshaws. It became such a running joke that even an ex-colleague once wrote a song about it. Complete with the line “taxi w***e.” Not my proudest nickname, but it…

  • Lately, I’ve Been Feeling the Need for a Shift

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    Not a plan. Just a feeling I don’t want to ignore. Lately, I’ve been feeling something stir. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just enough to notice it when things go quiet. I’ve spent over a decade and a half very focused on my career. Corporate life. Structure. Goals. Titles. Deliverables. And for a long time, that…

  • The Global Citizen Dilemma

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    Everywhere and nowhere feels like home. Spanish by birth. Indian by origin. Raised across continents. That sentence has followed me for as long as I can remember. It sounds neat when written down, almost poetic. Living it, however, has been anything but simple. I was born in Madrid, a city that still feels stitched into…

  • Learning to Trust My Voice Again

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    There was a time when trusting my voice felt natural. I spoke, wrote, expressed, without second-guessing every word. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Not dramatically. Not because of one big moment. It happened slowly, quietly, through years of working, adapting, fitting in, and learning when to soften things, when to stay quiet, when to…