<![CDATA[Stories by Siya M on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@siyame?source=rss-ba910b01bad4------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*SlU8To9Mk0kZoa-Ns0JRLg.jpeg Stories by Siya M on Medium https://medium.com/@siyame?source=rss-ba910b01bad4------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:27:18 GMT <![CDATA[From Childhood Moves to Lifelong Wanderlust]]>

How Early Travels Shaped My Perspective and Deepened My Connection to Diverse Cultures

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Sometimes the deepest emptiness hides behind the most complete-looking lives.

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Sometimes rest is simply stepping away from the rhythm that exhausts us.

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]]> https://medium.com/@siyame/the-kind-of-break-we-all-secretly-need-32567d9dde87?source=rss-ba910b01bad4------2 https://medium.com/p/32567d9dde87 Wed, 27 May 2026 06:51:00 GMT 2026-05-27T06:51:00.435Z <![CDATA[I Didn’t Stop Writing. I Was Becoming Someone Who Had More to Say.]]>

Motherhood didn’t take my voice away, it reshaped it, quietly, until I was ready to return.

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What my clothes quietly teach me about identity, migration, and the versions of myself I’m allowed to be

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What I’m carrying forward and what I’m finally letting go of

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Why My House Stays Lit From Diwali to Christmas

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A funny, emotional, and painfully honest reflection on living between currencies, cultures, and versions of myself.

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]]> https://medium.com/@siyame/earning-in-dollars-and-spending-in-rupees-f6b35235a962?source=rss-ba910b01bad4------2 https://medium.com/p/f6b35235a962 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:11:55 GMT 2025-12-16T20:11:55.527Z <![CDATA[I Stopped Writing for Two Months. Here’s What Really Happened]]>

Sometimes you stop writing not because you’re uninspired, but because life insists you live first.

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]]> https://medium.com/@siyame/i-stopped-writing-for-two-months-heres-what-really-happened-fe52b7765424?source=rss-ba910b01bad4------2 https://medium.com/p/fe52b7765424 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:57:24 GMT 2025-12-11T06:57:24.388Z <![CDATA[I Cross Oceans So She Can Grow Roots]]>

Some traditions are not passed down through stories, but through presence

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