Welcome to the third issue of Friday Feels!

If Life Were a A Book, What Would You Call This Chapter?

If life were a book (and honestly it always feels like one), this wouldn’t be the dramatic climax. Right now, this feels more like that chapter you almost skip but later realise it mattered more than you thought.

We asked the community a simple question:

If you were to describe your current chapter in life, what would it be called?

What I didn’t expect was how familiar all of them would feel, like different versions of the same story being told from different angles. Each response carried its own title, but also a quiet confession underneath. Let’s flip through these chapters together.

“Making So Many Mistakes”

Reading this, it feels like a sigh before the sentence even finishes. Because mistakes sound loud, don’t they? Like something went wrong. But when I read this, I didn’t think of failure. I thought of movement…of someone choosing, risking, and learning life the hard way instead of watching it pass.  And honestly? I don’t trust people who claim they’re not messing up at all. Growth is written in the mess you survive. Let’s be honest, most of us are probably in this chapter more than we’d like to admit, we just frame it differently.

 “Trying Everything – Not Like I’m Getting These Years Back”

There’s something freeing about that mindset, isn’t there? It carries this quiet urgency and chaotic main-character energy, and I love it.

The kind that says: I have time and energy right now. I won’t always. So let me explore, experiment, mess around a little, because why not?

In this chapter, they chose curiosity over perfection. The one where you’re allowed to try, fail, change your mind, and try again, simply because you can. At least when this chapter ends, it won’t end with ‘I wonder what would’ve happened if I tried.’

“Hustler’s Faith”

“I’m currently juggling so many things in life at the same time. Sometimes I wonder if I made the wrong decision. But there must be some reason I’m here in this moment, so I keep telling myself: it is not impossible. Have courage. It will all work out.”

This one felt heavy in my chest for a bit. It’s the chapter of doing too much while still believing somehow. You find yourself questioning yourself, yet you refuse to lose hope. Faith here isn’t loud…it’s something you repeat to yourself on difficult days just to make it through and even just show up. It’s not blind optimism but a quiet reassurance to believe there’s a reason you’re here. And that’s what makes it powerful and keeps you going.

“The Filler Episode”

They described it as, “a chapter where the writers have put the high-stakes drama on hold for a bit, letting the camera linger on the daily routine instead.”

The setting is the same, and the cast hasn’t changed. A small pause, but something is happening beneath the surface.

“Because it’s in these quieter moments, these seemingly static episodes, where the real character development happens – not through big battles, but through small shifts in perspective and the subtle unscripted moments that fill the gaps between the major arcs.”

That felt comforting to read. Like permission to exist without needing everything to be extraordinary right now. And I love how accurate this feels because ‘filler episodes’ are like little reminders that characters find themselves not through dramatic changes or big battles, but through quiet routines and little moments that don’t look important until later. This chapter is about learning through repetition instead of chaos, and maybe we underestimate how important these quieter chapters really are.

“The Urge to Be Unstuck”

This one felt restless…like starting over with hope, only to realise the pattern feels familiar, the circle keeps closing in, and the excitement slowly fades into frustration.

“I try every possible thing to make it unstuck, but… no. It doesn’t seem to budge.”

The frustration is clear, but also self-aware. The understanding that you have to let go of things you like because staying too long will trap you. So you run toward something new, hoping it leads to the next chapter, even while feeling like the same circle is closing in again.

And yet, the reflection lingers: maybe this is necessary… maybe this is the chapter of growth. Like permission to believe that stagnation and growth can look eerily similar while you’re inside them.

So… What Is This Chapter Really Called?

Reading through all of these, I realised something. None of these chapters are isolated. They overlap and bleed into one another. You can be making mistakes while trying everything, hustling with faith, living a filler episode, and desperately wanting to be unstuck, all at the same time.

Maybe this chapter doesn’t have a neat title yet because it’s still unfolding. And maybe one day, looking back, we’ll recognise this as the chapter where we didn’t have all the answers, but we kept going anyway. Not the loudest or the easiest, but a very human one.

Penned By:

Rtr. Kavya Thotawatte

Editorial Committee Member 25.26