Hi! My name is Ovee Gore. My name means " hymn" in Marathi ( my home language ). I established this website in 2020, when I was 18, as part of a school project. It had become a time-capsule for the version of myself that existed in the world at that time. Now, 5 years and 2 degrees later, I have a Masters degree in Neuroscience, and still am figuring my way around life. At 18, I thought for sure by now that I would be in medical school, working for some non-profit in a remote part of India, own an art gallery in Amsterdam, or have a poetry book published. Taylor Swift really was on to something when she said "you know everything at 18, and nothing at 22."I am learning now that instead of being a melancholic quote, it can be quite beautiful, to watch your sense of self evolve, disassemble, fruition, and repeat, as you decide who you want to become. I am starting this website again from scratch, leaving the project for which I created it in the projects tab, as a tribute to the 18 year old girl who had a vision.I am hoping to create something new that emulates the person that I am now, and the person I wish to become.Thank you for being here, I hope you resonate with some of the content I choose to share with the world.I wish you the best, whoever you are. 

 

My culture is something that is integral to my life and my identity. Medicine for the soul is sitting in a rickshaw, the horn honk chatter, a warm cup of chai, gasoline filled air, banter with the rickshaw drivers, the first rain of the monsoon, and the smell of spices from my family's home. All of it has been a pillar for me to return to as I have gotten older, and a reminder that even when we feel lost, home will always be there. 

 

My poetry is something that I started to get myself through the tribulations life has handed me. I love expressing simple emotions in complex metaphors, a riddle for the reader to interpret and paint over their own multifaceted story in a way that hopefully, resonates, and can bring them some sort of peace that we are never alone, we are all experiencing the same mosaic of emotions in some way or the other. 

 

My love for neuroscience goes beyond just my way of making sense of this world and my place in it. The brain is the most overlooked organ. It defines every single thing we do, consciously, and subconsciously. Learning about how our brain is absorbing our world, and how it is dictating how we imprint on it brings me closer to preserving the feeling of gratitude that we can live the lives we live. It also illuminates my desire to contribute to helping those who cannot. Clinical neuroscience is a passion of mine because so many diseases of the brain are not treatable. I wish to use my time and energy on this earth to fix that, in some way, shape or form. My neuroscience writing will encompass everything from making sense of things that happen to all of us ( break-ups, vices, identity struggles, love ) and things that happen to a select few ( addiction, Alzhiemers, cancer, ). All of it is an attempt to keep my brain engaged in learning about itself, while hopefully finding some good in the process, either to apply to my own life, or to come up with cures for others.