OptimisticPessimist

A travel blog that focuses on worldly reflections and interpersonal experiences while traveling Europe with my mom and sister

Author: alex

  • initial days in Paris

    initial days in Paris

    Oh Paris, France the city that started it all. Eloise in Paris is the book that began our journey of daydreaming and inspired our love for travel. To put it bluntly, with no exaggeration at all, this city has brought me to life in ways that were kept dormant internally. Parts of it that felt… Read more

  • prelude.

    Mothers, daughters and sisters live in a complicated dynamic, especially in a world riddled by misogyny and patriarchy among many other nuanced concepts. I’ll try not to get too social science here in my blogs, but at the same time it is what I studied and how my brain sees the world. This blog means… Read more