Vareesha Khan
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A Better World

I am unsatisfied with the default way we have been taught to view the world. I need to believe in something better, something more. I began this project to decide for myself what a meaningful life looks like. A Better World is an ongoing series exploring and reimagining the different aspects of life, with the goal of spending our days more thoughtfully, and with the purpose of making our tomorrows closer to our dreams of utopia.

Reconciliation

How do we come back together? How do we reverse severed ties? Foster thorns to bloom? Looking back at those who have come and gone from our lives, we ache for the ‘what ifs’ of all that never was. Missed potential is a haunting force, reappearing in dreams of confrontation. But what about reconciliation? Our world does not reward conversation of what went wrong. Rather we are dialed into the social capital we derive from dismissing and cancelling others. From the personal to the societal, relationships of love that fade away without opportunity to recover. How would that look like? How can we have open and nuanced dialogue of the spaces between us? How do we call up a long-lost connection and dissect what went wrong in the first place? How do we learn to forgive and heal? Or should we even? I begin to wonder if we can try? I could learn to be better, if I knew where I have failed. I could learn to be more open, if I could speak to the worlds that are closed to me. I could find a needle and sew lives back together, if only I knew.

Vareesha Khan