Essays
8 posts, newest first.
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Political Violence and the Broken Circle - Why We're Attacking Ourselves
I saw the ever-harrowing message come in from a friend on Facebook messenger two days ago… “Have you seen the news?” I replied. “No. I’m focused on...
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When Your Palace Becomes Your Prison
My palace of imperviousness was literally my favourite place on Earth for probably two decades. With 7 sets of walls, it looked like Minas Tirith in my head... Yet something was missing. Free to roam the Earth, but trapped in a psychological prison of my own making.
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Comfort in the Chaos - Uncertainty as Life
I have no idea who I'm becoming anymore, and I'm kinda low-key happy about it. I'm writing this at 8:30pm with a job interview at 11am that I haven't...
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Lost for Words?
27/08/25 - I don't really know what to write about today, and that feels kinda bizarre to admit. I'm only 5 days into this evangelical crusade of...
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Dance With the Waves - Fighting, Fleeing, Fawning, Freezing... Or Flowing?
I always used to tell myself that I wanted to, and would, “grab life by the balls”. What I meant by that was multi-faceted. In my head, that was my...
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The Myth of Failure
Yesterday, I confessed quite openly to my failed attempts at starting a blog. And no wonder why they failed - I was in it for the wrong reasons....
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Why I Didnt Write This til Now…
Cause I gotta tell you I wanted to… Believe me. This isn’t the first time I’ve tried to start writing content to share on the internet! There’s...
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Fear of Success vs. Fear of Failure - My Invisible Cage, And Why I NEED to Write This
(And, to be honest , a cage I never intended to be, or realised I was, trapped in…) It’s been 32 years, 9 months and 11 days, give or take, that...