Ritika is an ancient philosopher, transported into our modern world. 

A woman with glasses and long hair dancing on a dark background, surrounded by floating objects like an open book, paper, and a ball. An alien with a halo and a steaming cup hovers above her. A person in an astronaut suit with a dog on a leash floats nearby.

She is an expert time traveler.

She arrived on planet Earth, a place she loves to visit every several hundred years, in 2006.

A pencil drawing of a woman with glasses and long hair balancing on a globe marked '2006'. The background depicts outer space with stars and swirling lines.

It was both nothing and everything that she expected.

At first she was confused.

Machines that think for themselves?

Humans who don’t?

A glowing rectangle in every pocket?

She spent the first few years doing what philosophers do best.

Watching. Wandering.

Grinding her teeth in her sleep.

Waking up with night sweats.

Developing permanent forehead wrinkles.

A girl with glasses appears distressed, surrounded by a robot, an alien, a smartphone, a cup of coffee, a dog, and swirling cosmic elements, all in a hand-drawn, grayscale style.
A grayscale drawing of a young woman with glasses in two different scenes. On the left, she stands outdoors, appearing to think or worry, with trees and clouds in the background. On the right, she is lying in bed, distressed and upset, with a phone showing her social media profile named Ritika, with her picture and a Twitter icon, in the background.

She escaped to a farm.

But the owner said she needed a Twitter account.

So she made a profile.

It confused her. She ran away.

She tried to teach the Socratic method.

But everyone kept replying “💀” and various forms of F-U.

A classroom scene with a female teacher standing in front of a blackboard asking why. Three students sitting at desks are giving middle finger gestures; one student has a speech bubble with a skull and crossbones and the letters 'F' and 'U'.

In 2020, she did what 5,000 year-old philosophers always do and moved to the forest.

There, among the squirrels and bad Wi-Fi, she rediscovered the old ways:

  • Thinking in complete sentences

  • Caring more about the question than the comment count

  • Sleeping 10 hours a night

  • Surviving 2-hour power outages

A woman sitting cross-legged outdoors under a tree, resting her head on her hand while reading a book, with a steaming mug nearby.

Eventually, other humans began to find her.

Some wandered in by accident.

Some came on purpose, carrying notebooks, insomnia, and existential dread.

At first, she pretended not to hear them speaking to her.

Eventually, she realized that she liked them.

So, she gave them tea.

A drawing of four young people sitting on the floor around a woman who is talking and gesturing with her hand. The woman holds a cup, and one of the other people is holding a smartphone. They are outside, near a log cabin with a window and a door, with trees in the background.

She asked them strange questions.

She taught them how to write their way out of the confusion.

They didn’t always leave with answers.

But they left with something better.

A quieter mind. A sharpened voice. Renewed empowerment.

A woman with long hair and glasses stands on a mountain peak, holding a remote control with antennae. An alien spaceship with a beam of light is shining down on a mountain peak nearby in a mountain range scene, all drawn in black and white.

The year was 2100.

It was time for Ritika to fly away

Everything made sense.

So she got her drone license, built a space ship, climbed up a mountain, and teleported to the year 2350.

Before she left, she hid 1,000 writing prompts and her stash of reishi tea under a rock.

It’s all a true story.

Just ask her how everything turned out in 2100.

She reads your emails and has extremely high reading comprehension.

There’s not much else to do from outer space, from the future timeline, on the way to 2350.

If you made it this far, you may want to see her real bio. Ritika is a real person, and you can learn more about her here.