Reflections Between Pages

Tag: Between Pages

  • Reading as Self-Reconstruction — How Stories Rewire Who We Are

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    Eve Chen
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    I used to think of reading as escape — a way to step out of myself and into someone else’s world. But lately, I’ve realized that every story I enter rearranges something in me on the way out. It’s not just empathy or imagination. It’s rewiring. Neuroscience tells us that the brain processes stories not…

  • The Quiet Work of Showing Up

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    Eve Chen
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    Some days discipline feels like brilliance. Other days, it feels like nothing more than dragging yourself into a lecture hall when you’d rather be anywhere else. I used to think success was built in big leaps — the perfect paper, the life-changing opportunity, the one decision that shifts everything. But lately I’m learning it’s quieter…