Why Untethered?
For most of my life, there was a quiet anxiety running underneath everything I did. I felt obligated—to family, to expectations, to society—and somewhere in all of that, I never really got to know who I was. I was busy being what was needed, rather than discovering what felt true. Now, at 30, something has shifted. I’m beginning to notice interests that never had space to exist before—curiosities that feel both unfamiliar and deeply mine. It’s strange, almost disorienting at times, to meet yourself this late. But more than anything, it’s freeing. For the first time, I don’t feel bound by invisible contracts. I love my family, but I no longer feel obligated to live a life defined by them. The same goes for friends, society—even the idea of duty to something larger. It’s not rejection; it’s clarity. A quiet understanding that before I belong to anything, I belong to myself—as a human being, simply existing. There’s a lightness in that. A kind of emotional space where I can b...