Remember Whiskey Wednesdays? When we’d stay up too late for a work night, drinking alcohol we could barely swallow in an attempt to look cool? Even though it was just us at your place.

The truth is that whiskey goes down smoother but it doesn’t have the same kick it did without you there. We were those people that used to really love being around each other. And our friends were jealous of not only our relationship but the fact that we were best friends. …

Instant gratification. Modern dating and instant gratification go hand and hand. And I’d love to sit here and tell you that I’m an exception to the rule. Fuck getting to know someone when I can have what I want from them in 10 minutes. I don’t want to know your deep dark secrets when I can get in and get out without a trace of feelings. Feelings just get you into trouble. Trouble that no one has time to deal with anymore.

My need for instant gratification leads me to realize too late that I actually care about someone.

I…

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English professor, Samantha Rajaram, is changing the writing world by creating pieces about events in history and how they affect marginalized people. Her debut novel The Company Daughters will leave readers wanting more.

Who are you?

Samantha Rajaram — I’m an English professor at Chabot College in Hayward, CA and I’m based in Redwood City.

What do you write?

I write about little-known policies/events in history and how they affect marginalized people. I find my ideas in the course of researching for books already in progress. Perhaps because of my own experience as an Indian-American growing up in Wyoming, feeling simultaneously invisible and uncomfortably conspicuous in my…

Your name is still the one I hover over any time I get good or bad news. Your name is still the one that comes to mind the second I’m excited about something. You’re the person I think want to talk to when things are just not making sense anymore.

But you’re the one who chose not to be here. You’re the one who packed their things and moved out. You‘re the one who made the decision and I was just the person passively participating.

Except you leaving was the best thing that ever happened to me. I think about…

There’s a moment when it’s over where you just stand in the aftershocks of a broken relationship. You can ricochet from the first initial blast, but the rippling waves of pain that continue to flow through you will bring you to your knees.

The problem with the aftershocks is it usually doesn’t happen immediately after a breakup. It’s going to happen when you’re driving, and that song comes on the radio that takes you back to the first time you danced together. It’s going to come when you have something big to share, and you can’t call them. …

Inspiration is something that can come in a variety of different ways. Sometimes it’s a playlist. Sometimes some other writer’s article. Sometimes it’s even the weather.

But for me, it was you who made me feel inspired again.

My heart may have been frozen solid for the last few years, but you reminded me that there was a reason that even when we think we can’t, we can find a spark again. That spark led me to being ignited from head to toe with a buzzing feeling that I had been missing.

While I’d love to talk about all of…

Is there ever a point in our lives where we should give up on love? Where we should throw in the towel and just be content with not finding another person to let into our hearts? I don’t think so. I don’t think that we should ever look at life and think that love will never find us.

1. Prince or Princess Charming might ride the bus instead of a white horse.

Does what we drive or what we wear or what we do really matter at the end of the day? Why do we set impossibly high standards on what we’re looking for in another person? High standards are great but if it’s…

I’m scared. I’ve never said those words before to someone like you. I’ve never had those words said to me by someone like you either.

Sure, I’ve said I’ve loved people before but it’s not like this. I didn’t say those three words while staring into someone’s eyes while our fingers are intertwined. I haven’t said those words so slow and deliberate that the receiver feels every ounce of the weight I mean them in the depths of their soul. …