We would grow up, and things from our childhood would start making sense. But some things are always going to be beyond our comprehension...

Behind every proverb, there is experience and reflection. Now, I don’t claim to know it all, but I know what I’ve lived...

When one of them disappears, it threatens the whole system, and in my case, my entire being. I was forced to rebuild my life and myself...

Maybe it would have been a lot different if life had stayed peaceful and carefree like when I first came into this world...

Located at the extreme north of Pakistan, Nathia Gali is considered to be one of the most beautiful and scenic places in Pakistan...

My parents taught us to work hard, help our neighbors and be respectful of others. My mum worked in an office and...

Girls married right out of high school at 18 in my neighborhood, like an unspoken tradition. I thought I’d follow the same path...

A bunch of wildflowers left my hands and dropped upon his grave. It was clear that the goodbyes were final. I was burying my husband...

Traditionally, Indian families want boys, but as they already had a son, my parents welcomed my birth with all their heart...

It’s not wrong to believe that life is unfair and difficult. But the thing is, that’s how it is for everyone...

Together, they built a family. I had an unusual childhood as my siblings and I were the only mixed-race children in the town...

My parents were both originally from the northern region of Vietnam but fled south to escape communist rule...

My parents had a marriage of love. I say this because my dad hails from India where he first had an arranged marriage to a girl he barely...

They say that life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. In my life—in chasing my dreams, in fighting to provide...

Simple routines on a farm had me dreaming of life beyond our vast fields. I decided at a young age that I would love to travel the world...

A few months into my first year of college, my mother called my sister and me into her room. From the tone in her voice, anyone could...

My father, a labor union leader who was tangled up in domestic politics, married at the young age of 17. But how could he not?...

By Georgia, my parents got divorced. After seeing their marriage decay, I stopped believing in love. I stopped believing that I would be...

That all changed in the summer of 1941, when the Second World War hit our snowy streets. Slowly, food became a luxury...

Growing up in the 1980s, we spent our days running off with neighborhood friends, only returning home when the hum of the streetlights ...