— The Gift from my mother For the past few months, I have been working on setting up this blog and curating it to perfection. I wanted it to represent so much of who I am—something deep, but not too personal; a space where I could express different sides of myself without oversharing. There was a point when I considered scrapping the idea entirely because I felt overwhelmed. I wanted too much from something that was supposed to be an authentic reflection of myself. Then, one