Tadiwa Vambe
The Blog
Essays on identity, creativity, purpose, and the work of becoming.
This is where I examine the gap between who we are, who the world expects us to be, and who we choose to become. I write to ask better questions about how to live deliberately—not according to borrowed ambition, but with a life that feels like your own.
There may be no single right post for everyone. But if you are questioning your direction, your identity, or the life you are building, begin here.
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- choose your view, and play wellI don’t care whether you’re a guy or a girl. I don’t care how you see the world, and honestly I don’t care what you think the world… Read more: choose your view, and play well
- be deadly serious but playfully alive
I always wished to live a creative life without any rules. What that life means is a concept I want to explore because within the constraints of rules,… Read more: be deadly serious but playfully alive - Esse Quam Videri: “Are you Still Here?”There’s a particular kind of silence that follows victory. Not the celebratory kind, but the kind that asks: “What now?” I’d spent an entire year battling invisibly, carefully, strategically, fighting to be seen as worthy of leadership. And then I won. The announcement came. The position was mine. But winning the battle only meant I’d earned the right to face the war. The empty bed spoke in a language only absence understands. Cold where warmth used to be. Bare where chaos once lived. When my partner quit, I became a house built on two pillars, now leaning dangerously on one. In the two weeks it took to find a replacement, I had to ask myself the question that would define my third year: Are you still here? Not physically, was obviously still standing, still wearing the badge, still going through the motions. But was I still here? The version of me who fought for this position, who believed I could handle it, was that person still present? Or had the threads already started to unravel under the weight I’d been so eager to carry?
- Don’t Burn the House Down
The first day of the year. A breath of fresh air. Or so it seems. For most of us, the first feels like we’re set free from whatever… Read more: Don’t Burn the House Down - DIY: Love’s Final Form
The internet, most of us’ daily bread, has fueled ur minds into certain ways of thinking. Most would argue these are ways we find ourselves identifying with. As… Read more: DIY: Love’s Final Form
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