Aasif Khan

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Aasif Khan

The Birthday ParadoxHi, Today’s my birthday and if just 23 people read this article, well mathematically there’s almost 50% chance that you share the same birthday as mine. Let me explain,Mathematically, If you put 23 people in a room and ask thier birthday, there’s a 50% chance that two of them share the same birthday even when they had a random chance of any birthday out of 365 days.

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Aasif Khan

And sometimes I wish to become a spider…or an ant…(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)There’s a this thing I felt yesterday. Yesterday I was laying on my bed under the blanket and crossed my leg to make a cave of leg and blanket. Then I lit a flashlight and in the cave and soon my fingers became the primal humans. I be walking and playing with my fingers as if they’re a family. There was a corner once, outside my room on the third floor.

4 weeks ago | medium.com | Aasif Khan

This one is actually messed up. So yeah — one of my closest friends did something wild. He filed a legal case against his own parents. For mental harassment. At first, I was shocked. Then curious. Then… oddly impressed. He said he was tired of the manipulation, the guilt, the passive-aggressive control disguised as parenting. He told me how they’d gaslighted him for years, made him feel like nothing was ever enough. And you know what? I believed him. I mean, emotional abuse is real.

4 weeks ago | medium.com | Aasif Khan

And that pisses me off…We often admire writers like they’re towering monuments. Shakespeare. Orwell. Virginia Woolf. Murakami. The names echo in classrooms and bookstores — as if they are the entire iceberg. But what we see… is just the tip. No — the tip of the tip. Actually, the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Because beneath that thin, frosty glint of recognition lies a vast, freezing ocean — home to countless minds who bled brilliance onto pages that no one ever turned. Some were silenced.

1 month ago | medium.com | Aasif Khan

The Creator ParadoxIn a world where everyone’s a creator, no one’s really creating. Scroll through any social media feed, and you’ll notice something strange. Not just people dancing, making jokes, or telling stories — but people teaching how to dance, how to go viral, how to tell stories, how to monetize, how to “build your brand.”What you’re seeing isn’t just content. It’s “meta-content” , content about content.