Alicia Lidwina

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  • Writing a Letter to Myself

    In some occurrences between my slumber and waking, I often get strange visions. You know, the ones strange enough you couldn’t help but realize you were still half asleep. For instance, I once had a strange vision of meeting my younger self right there, inside my room.     My younger self sat in the…

  • The Place that Nurtured Me

    I used to work in a startup company. It wasn’t a big company per se, but we did have a big dream. It is no secret that in this modern era, founding and nurturing a startup company that will eventually go boom in the market is like a proverbial rat race everyone should participate in.…

  • Of Letting Go

    It had been awhile since I broke up with my ex. The thing is, we never actually separated on a sour note. Sure, there were some things that didn’t click between us, and we ended up having more differences than we could reconcile. But when we decided to break up and go on with our…

  • The Acrophobic Traveller

    “So tell me, are you travelling solo?” Inside a cheap, red-painted walls of a traveller’s hostel in Osaka, this man, who was most likely in his mid 30s, asked me once. It didn’t take me long to answer that. “No,” I replied. “Not yet, at least. But I will be in a few days.”