Rafian At The Edge 50 May 2026

Rafian had always measured life in margins. Not the neat white margins of a ruled notebook—he’d outgrown neatness years ago—but the thin, uncertain borders where one thing bled into another: work into home, certainty into doubt, the present into some tentative future. At fifty, those edges were sharper. They gleamed with the rawness of choices made and the soft ache of things left undone.