unfinished thoughts

Thando

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Unfinished Thoughts is a collection of field notes on becoming, unbecoming, and trying to make sense of being a person. Each episode begins with an ordinary observation and follows it wherever it leads- through identity, creativity, relationships, culture, ambition, uncertainty, and the quiet questions that refuse to leave us alone. There are no experts here. No life hacks. No perfect conclusions. Just unfinished thoughts.

Oct 23

Field Note#11: I Wish The Day Would Stay

the strange frustration of being human: having a brain that can explain your feelings but can't always make them go away, questioning your own sadness, and trying to figure yourself out while still having to live your life. Maybe some days the fire is small enough to put out. Other days, nothing seems to work. And sometimes, you just want to have a good day without thinking about how much you'll miss it when it's gone. I don't have an answer. I just think it's worth talking about the things we find difficult, even when we can't explain them properly. For anyone who's ever felt frustrated by their own existence, or wished a good day could last a little longer. Maybe we can sit in the discomfort together.
Oct 17

Field Note#10: After Happily Ever After

I'm thinking about the stories we inherit, the milestones we build our lives around, and the strange experience of reaching something you've wanted only to realise that life doesn't end there. This isn't about having all the answers, or questioning every choice until nothing feels certain. It's about whether we give ourselves enough room to understand what we want, why we want it, and what it means to actually live with those choices.
Oct 8

Field Note#09: Terms and Conditions

There are things I understand about being alive. What I don't understand is how easily surviving becomes making something of yourself. So this is me trying to figure out how to participate in a world I don't entirely agree with, without giving all of myself to it.
Oct 1

Field Note#08: The Person I Keep Meeting

What happens when the same lesson keeps finding you in different forms? Learning can feel stupid. Growth can feel humiliating. Sometimes we understand exactly why something happened and still hate that it happened. Sometimes we know we need to leave and still don't want to. Sometimes we learn the same lesson five different ways before it finally sticks. Maybe being human is just constantly becoming someone new, while occasionally running into the people we used to be.
Sep 17

Field Note#07: RAGE

What happens when you've been angry for so long that you're not even angry anymore? A Field Note about rage, exhaustion, numbness, and what we do with the knowledge of constant pain.
Sep 2

Field Note #06: To maybe the shit out of everything

This is a Field Note about hope, faith, the body, the spiral, and the strange little possibility that maybe something you haven't imagined yet is waiting on the other side of tomorrow.
Aug 26

Field Note #05 : When People Become Part of Our Mythology

We don't just remember people- we remember ourselves through them. A Field Note about complicated relationships, memory, grief, love, hurt, and the people who become part of our personal mythology. This episode is about the stories we create about the people we've loved, lost, outgrown, forgiven, and never fully understood- and what happens when we stop trying to turn complicated human beings into simple characters. Maybe moving forward doesn't always mean erasing someone. Maybe it means learning how to let multiple truths exist at once.
Aug 20

Field Note #04: The Seams

What if some of the things we think are permanent are really just things we’ve gotten used to? A strange thought about pap, history, culture, and the invisible seams holding our ideas of “normal” together. Maybe the world is a lot less fixed than we think it is.
Aug 10

Field Note#03: Nobody Talks About How Slow Becoming Is

A reflection on growing up, changing quietly, and realizing that becoming yourself doesn't have an ending.What if becoming yourself was never supposed to be something you eventually finish?This field note is about growing slowly, changing without noticing, paying attention to the tiny moments that shape us, and learning to be a little less afraid of not having all the answers. Maybe becoming isn’t a destination. Maybe it’s just what happens while we’re busy living.
Jul 29

Field Note#01 Maybe Awareness Has Terrible Marketing

Awareness is supposed to make life easier. We're told that once we understand ourselves, everything else is supposed to fall into place. But what if awareness isn't the cure? What if it simply allows us to see the world more clearly, even when that clarity feels uncomfortable? In this first field note, I explore the strange relationship between awareness, existential dread, and the quiet hope that maybe understanding ourselves isn't about fixing our lives, but learning how to live with the questions they leave behind. These are just some unfinished thoughts. 🌼
Jul 28

Field Note#02: The Strange Grief of Ordinary Life

Some grief arrives without a funeral. This Field Note is about childhood, ordinary endings, and the strange feeling of realizing that time has quietly carried you somewhere else. Thanks for listening.

11 Episodes

Unfinished Thoughts is a collection of field notes on becoming, unbecoming, and trying to make sense of being a person. Each episode begins with an ordinary observation and follows it wherever it leads- through identity, creativity, relationships, culture, ambition, uncertainty, and the quiet questions that refuse to leave us alone. There are no experts here. No life hacks. No perfect conclusions. Just unfinished thoughts.

Creator

Thando
Years Active

2026
Episodes

11
Rating

Explicit
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unfinished thoughts