Sheela Writes

The Fab 40s Do The Decade

40s, 50s, 60s? Which One Spells You? Lately my mind has been preoccupied with the concept of courage. Daring to do things I normally wouldn’t because I’d be too afraid. Be it something as rudimentary as swapping signature red for a softer pink on the lips, or walking up to a complete stranger at an event and saying, “Hello!! I’m Sheela, what’s your name?”. Admittedly, accompanying that heady rush of adrenaline (aka bravado) is an equally powerful sense of nausea and wanting to throw up but still, courage and being courageous have been taking over my heart, mind and spirit these days. The courage to speak my mind when I feel my needs are not being met or when I believe my opinions are not being heard. Courage to reach out and ask for something I know I deserve and am fully capable of helping it realise its full potential. And no longer allowing society to dictate whether I can or cannot based on some unfathomable parameters. Most of all, the courage to...

Extra(ordinary)

by Sheela Goh

Now I’m ready, To be extraordinary. Question. What do you do to turn the ordinary little things into extraordinary amazing things? By that I don’t mean something divine or perched upon a lofty pedestal. What I mean is that we need to take the time to see within the ordinary, its capacity to be a precious thing. Something utterly extraordinary. A gift. Steering away from telling ourselves to strive for extraordinary lives. That we can only be happy, only feel fulfilled if we lead extraordinary lives for while that might seem aspirational (admirable perhaps), it can also be rather lofty and fraught with unrealistic idealism. All of which could very well be the path to setting ourselves up for disappointment. Instead, we should be seeking to find the joy and marvel in living an ordinary, normal life. Once we do that, the most mundane of things (nondescript even) will pulsate and come alive with magic and wonder. The extraordinary will happen on its own then. Take for instance the act of baking. With...

The Fab 40s Enter An Apocalyptic Age

by Sheela Goh

When it’s the end of the world, Would you fight or would you flee? So when one thinks of the word, “Apocalypse“, images of destruction and bloody battles often come to mind. Is it little wonder then that many of us, myself included, regularly miss that part wherein an apocalypse is also a revelation? A discovery, and typically, of knowledge? A vision of heavenly secrets which aims to make sense of earthly circumstances? For the purposes of this blog post though, I would hazard a safe bet that Shelbee meant for apocalypse to be a revelation about the end of the world. Doomsday, I’m guessing you could call it. G O O D V S E V I L A major confrontation between light and dark, destined to change the course of history. Depending on which belief system you subscribe to, some anticipate that post the apocalypse, the world will be shattered into particles and cease to exist while others predict that a brand new one will resurface anew and fertile. Whether you...