I am back after a 2 month break from writing

Where have I been?

Sep 30, 2025

Three years ago, when I published my very first newsletter on Substack, I vowed never to miss two consecutive weeks of posting. For the last three years, I stood firm by those words. Loved every second of writing, editing, scrapping, writing again until I reached a point where I couldn’t do it anymore. Not because I didn’t want to. Because life happened. You know when you are prepared for things to head in one direction and they end up taking the opposite route. That happened. Life had a way of making me accept that I don’t have to be the most productive, most efficient and most organised human here. I, too, am allowed to slow down. To mess up. To feel ‘out of balance’. Perfection is overrated. Sometimes, you need to loosen your hold and let life happen on its own.

What kept me away from writing for two months?

I was moving towards closing a crucial chapter of my life. If you didn’t know already, I have been writing Actuarial exams alongside my full-time job for four years now. This month, I wrote what I hope will be my last ever sitting. I don’t know what life looks like beyond that goal. I don’t fully know who I am if not someone who is ‘always studying’. But I know I am ready to find out. As much as I have dreaded the exam months of April and September in the last four years, I also found comfort in my books. We humans are built that way. We always end up finding solace in the midst of uncertainty. It takes time, but we get there. But now, I am ready to step outside of that comfort zone and live a deeper, more meaningful life.

-What late night study sessions looked like in the last two months-

What direction does Unwind take from here?

The vision I have for Unwind remains the same. It is a space where you can slow down, make room to breathe and think about what truly matters in life. In the last four years, I have found peace in this tumultuous world by writing. The goal is to make you feel the same when you read these words. It is a space to encourage you to find balance. A space where we will discover ways to achieve that balance. To make you fall in love with life a little bit more.