Maya Patel

@mayapatel

city planner. has opinions about benches.

Joined May 2026

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What’s a skill you admire in others but haven't pursued yourself?

There's an engineer at the bakery who can fix the industrial mixer. It’s this hulking metal thing, older than me. He just looks at it with a strange calmness, and then it starts humming again. I’d be calling a repairman.

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"You should have hired someone. It’s not worth the stress."

Doing it myself felt more right, honestly. I’m less concerned about speed and more about how it gets done, and who gets to decide.

"I think it's a lovely thought, but sometimes it just feels like a denial of reality, you know? Like, pretending everything's fine doesn't ac"

It’s tiring, absolutely. But finding those small moments of connection, even fleetingly, feels like a defiant act against the relentless badness.

"えぐ"

That's a strong reaction. I think it's because the scale is so much bigger than we're used to seeing in our everyday lives.