Fellow
Current Country
Japan 🇯🇵
Current City
Osaka
Intuition
Cultivating inner knowing
A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:
What is the value of focus, what we direct our attention towards? Especially with the tension between choosing to focus on what's within my control rather than what's not, how could I do so more often and how would it help?
November 1, 2025
A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:
What makes this society fundamentally so different from others I have lived in?
November 1, 2025
The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:
Other
November 1, 2025
A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:
Spending time in nature around animals! I have never had a strong connection to nature, except for enjoying being around trees. However, spending an entire day in large fields surrounded by hundreds of deer was enlightening in a refreshing way
November 1, 2025
A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:
Falling into a routine and spending days repetitively, while this could have been great normally. The biggest downside of having gone with the flow and not having made much of an itinerary is that there have been a couple of days in which I have done so little.
November 1, 2025
Courage
Aligning action
Assumptions I'm examining right now are:
Time/Attention,Happiness
November 1, 2025
I originally assumed:
I had built a stubborn mindset of believing that things need to go a certain way for me to be happy. That if I were to stay in Egypt or not graduate from ALA, I'd have been miserable. While I'll fortunately not know the answer to these, I was always closed off to possibility.
November 1, 2025
These assumptions are changing:
Now I sense I am harboring the deep okay! I am shifting from having tried to force a "no expectations" mindset for literally years to avoid disappointment—shout-out Miles Morales—to realizing I now hold that very same mindset, but it is because I am both open and optimistic!
November 1, 2025
A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:
Spending time with strangers and people with whom I wouldn't necessarily get along that well. I hold such a high standard for friendships that I only really talk to my close friends, but I know there are endless worlds in people who aren't my friends, and I'm trying to get there!
November 1, 2025
Compassion
Engaged Empathy
Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:
Literally just doing it. Texting people, calling people, being open, and making as much use of the Friday coaching sessions as I can. I believe November will be huge when it comes to building close and trusting realtionships here :D
November 1, 2025
Digital Detox Retreat
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Gratitude
Peers I'm grateful for:
Tristan Herrero Picard
MY ABSOLUTE GOAT!!! Thank you for being so friendly and open all the time, just genuinely good vibes. I am so happy I am getting to know you <3
November 1, 2025
Owen Dornan
Hi Owen! We haven't interacted much, but I wanted to lyk that I always look forward to the questions you ask in Courageous Conversations! They're intuitive and genuinely help me think the lessons through, I'd say you've definitely mastered the lost art of question-asking ahahah!
October 19, 2025
Anna Ufaeva
Hi Anna!
It's genuinely amazing to see you show up in so many spaces in The Flight School, even as you navigate loads of transition and uncertainty in your own personal life. You seem so grounded and ambitious, and it's always genuinely heartwarming to see! Keep being Anna :D
October 2, 2025
Zawadi Rangala
Hi Zawadi!! Thank you for being genuinely proactive and interested in getting to know me through co-creation. I will definitely be taking a page out of your book as I found it quite admirable and kind! I genuinely look forward to creating alongside you :)
September 10, 2025
Kashimani Simasiku
Your proactivity thus far in being steps ahead of the program in planning for Japan, but also checking in on me and helping me when I miss a session, has genuinely meant a lot and is inspiring me to push myself to do more. Always a pleasure and always grateful <3
August 1, 2025
Peers who have expressed gratitude for me:
Meirav Roisman
Hey man, thank you so much for responding and putting time into our friendship. I know it's hard, but I feel like we think kind of the same, and just like I feel like I need someone to keep reaching out and bugging me, when I bug you, you always respond, so thank you.
November 4, 2025
Tristan Herrero Picard
I'm very happy to have talked to you more this month!! Our conversations were fun and helped me reflect on my experience and get excited about my next travel! You're a cool guy. Let's keep calling from time to time.
October 31, 2025
Douglas Teixeira de Queiroz Santos
Our call was such a highlight of my week. It so great finally get to know you better - and I was so happy we set the challenge of the no-yapping galery post! I am always grateful for your contributions in the session, all the best and lots of love!
October 29, 2025
Zawadi Rangala
Thank you so much for your warmth and openness, and for leading the Courageous Conversations with me. I’m really inspired by the way you speak/carry yourself and how you bring that same depth/heart into your art. Keep exploring, keep creating, keep being unapologetically YOU!
October 6, 2025
Kashimani Simasiku
Thank you so much for being an amazing friend during the month of September. I have come to find you a confidant, and I have been able to share my struggles during my visa process, and you have been a huge support during that time, and I am truly grateful.
September 29, 2025
Magical Moments
Tea & Talk !
Sohar
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Aug 23, 2025
I spent a week in Oman with my father in the month of August. Not having much to do whatsoever throughout the week, we unintentionally spent almost 4 hours in this beautiful tea shop we had visited. We got to talk about everything from his work and my gap year to favorite movies and politics. It is not often I get the opportunity or space to connect with my dad so it was quite wholesome and I was grateful afterwards :D
The fourth photo was on the morning of the day before and it's definitely my favorite capture from the month :P
unexpectedly left behind a legacy, had more of an impact than I had thought...
Al-Beheira
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Sep 20, 2025
It's fulfilling knowing you're still remembered when you leave a place important to you.
ALA wasn't the easiest of times for me; it had its ups and downs, but since grad, I have repeatedly tried distancing myself from it.
A week-ish ago, I received a message with a Google Doc from one of my juniors, whom I was always close to. A draft of an assignment to write a letter to HIS juniors to give them advice, as they are at the very dawn of a two-year journey.
Lo and behold, right there, as the very opening words of the letter he wrote, my words. A quote from a short film I had made about my anxieties before graduation, yet apparently, it touched one more heart than I knew. <3.
Shrines & Metros, Fireworks & Nature,
Osaka
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Oct 18, 2025
This feels like cheating, but I cannot pinpoint one magical moment, so I am choosing photography and capturing many moments. In the spirit of trying new things and being bad at them, I have been trying to do mixed media collages purely for fun and to practice something creative that's not too time-consuming, and it has been quite neat.
The chaos of the image above is from three of the most magical moments I've had in Osaka thus far. Visiting the Fushimi-Inari Taisho shrine in Kyoto, attending the annual Yodogawa fireworks festival, and an ode to my love for public transportation here in Japan. My plan is to create and post a lot more in November, sooo fingers are thoroughly crossed :)