Erin J Daniel

3 days ago | medium.com | Erin J Daniel |Vidya Sury

SELF-AWARENESSSomewhere between mustard fields and tea stalls, I finally criedThe station wasn’t busy that evening, but it wasn’t quiet either. A soft chaos that only comes from luggage wheels dragging across tired tiles, murmured phone calls, a metallic announcement slicing through the air like a reminder that something is always leaving. I was one of the last to board. The platform lights cast a sleepy yellow glow on everything — people, bricks, my own uncertainty. The train began to move.

1 week ago | medium.com | Erin J Daniel |Vidya Sury

RELATIONSHIPSI’m a father who once believed failure meant I wasn’t good enoughNo one really says it out loud. But somewhere along the way, parenting turned into a kind of performance. A scoreboard of spelling bee wins, Instagram projects, and perfect report cards. And the one thing we all quietly promised ourselves? Our kids won’t fail like we did. We mean well. Of course we do. We just want to protect them. But protection became overcorrection.