From smashing relationship architypes and exploring our relentless quests to better ourselves, to diving into the loss of spontaneity that comes with the constant search for the ideal restaurant or vintage swing bag, this issue is the perfect pause in the noise. This series of stories offer some alternative perspectives to your predisposed ideal ways of thinking—while, as usual, making multiple infallible cases for a mid-year sojourn to the most desired places in the world, one of them being Joali in the Maldives