I need whimsy but I also need to be taken seriously

The deepest contradiction of the human condition

Apr 16 • Sherry Ning

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Spring Again

Do you ever think about how the fact that we walk on two legs is proof that we are altruistic creatures? Also, I got a PO box.

Apr 3 • Sherry Ning

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March 2026

You are what you love

How to become what you want to be when you can't "think" yourself into a better person

Mar 10 • Sherry Ning

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Get Inside Your Body

How to seek wonder in the age of machines

Published on Inkwell • Mar 5

February 2026

You're not falling in love because you don't want to

happy valentine's day!!

Feb 14 • Sherry Ning

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January 2026

Diary of a Bachelorette

Thoughts on loneliness that love can't solve

Jan 29 • Sherry Ning

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The devil's in the distractions

Happy new year to people with many interests and passions but are still confused about their career

Jan 14 • Sherry Ning

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December 2025

And the sun stood still

December 21 is winter solstice, a liminal space for thinking about some really, really hard questions

Dec 21, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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My year of ecstasy and insecurities

Wrote this in one breath before the Dec 1 sunrise and now I'm going back to bed. Also, recommendations

Dec 1, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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November 2025

You’re bored because you don’t love anything

Breaking out of that feeling of living the same day over and over again

Nov 12, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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October 2025

SELF-ESTEEM 101

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Everything that you want you already are.

Oct 9, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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You're shaped by what you pay attention to

What you look at is what you worship, what you worship is what you become.

Oct 1, 2025 • Sherry Ning

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