Raulito

Tag: stories & meaning

  • 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…

  • Harry Potter and the Stories I Grew Up With

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    Harry Potter came into my life at exactly the right moment. It was 1999. I was living in Mumbai, and the third book had just come out. I remember hearing about the series, the buzz around it, the way people spoke about these books as if they were something special. I started with Harry Potter…

  • 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.…

  • Mandrake, The Phantom, and the Indrajal Comics That Kept Me Reading

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    Mandrake, The Phantom, and the Indrajal Comics That Kept Me Reading When I think about the comics that shaped me, The Famous Five is not the first memory that comes up. Before that, there was another stack of books that I absolutely devoured: Indrajal Comics. Indrajal Comics were published in India by the Times Group…

  • The Wishing-Chair Adventures and the Books That Started It All

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    Before The Famous Five, before long series and thicker novels, there were The Wishing-Chair Adventures. These were, as far as I can remember, the very first proper novels I ever read. I must have been around nine or ten. I was living in Mumbai then, and I wasn’t going out much. I used to fall…

  • 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…

  • The Wheel of Time, Book 5: Thoughts, Feelings, and So Many Spoilers

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    (Yes, this is your final warning) This post contains full spoilers for The Wheel of Time, Book 5.If you haven’t read the book yet, this is your cue to leave now.There will be major plot points, character deaths, and endings discussed.You’ve been warned. Proceed at your own risk. I finished Book 5 and just sat…

  • Welcome to thisisraulito

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    A personal corner of the internet, finally mine. Welcome. I’m really glad you’re here. This space has existed quietly inside me for a long time. I just hadn’t given it a place to live until now. For months now, I’ve been writing consistently elsewhere, showing up week after week, sometimes day after day, letting my…