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32. Enrich your soul.
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Lately, I’ve found myself feeling rushed. As a final year university student, with a job and a half – that half being everything to do with this blog – pressure may seem inevitable, but I must clarify there is a difference between pressure and rush. What I mean are the day-to-day things; I feel…
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31. Beware the Cucks.
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People who change themselves around others are the saddest types of people, because all they are actually doing is broadcasting their insecurities to anyone who actually knows them, and insulting themselves in doing so. I’ve encountered almost every variant of this kind of person and found there to be no similarity amongst them, aside…
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30. Finding shards of reflection.
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A collaboration with Eva Phiasanaxay. Though getting diagnosed with ADHD towards the end of 2024 was the biggest step in understanding who I am and claiming the life I deserved, the most rewarding thing of all was finding shards of reflection in my closest friend Eva. It is unmistakable how we’ve bonded over our…
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29. Symbolism in moving your room around and getting that tattoo.
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If you’re inclined to value its importance, you’ll find symbolism in almost everything. It’s all about believing in bigger meaning, not just what you’re given. That’s why I believe that the act of moving furniture around in your room stands for something much more than achieving Feng Shui. Growing up, I liked to move…
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28. Making the best of a bad situation, and drawing back the curtain.
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These days it seems like trauma is everywhere, writhing between a kind of grief that comes with wishing you worked certain things out sooner, because now you’re left with the invalidating imprint of the past. And it’s invalidating because if left unchecked, you begin to spiral into a state of constant self-questioning: how has…
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27. Comparison is not only the thief of joy, but a murderer too.
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From the age of 12 to 18, I went to a school where the motto was “nothing but the best is good enough” which is a lie in itself because the majority of the students it churned out were sub-par to say the very least. But I remember looking at the white text on…
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26. Trusting in those who deserve it.
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People are always on my mind – the people I interact with, the people I’m yet to interact with and those I have already. And when I think about them, I recall just how many of them I actually trusted and confided in during a period of my life where I was all too…
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25. The Importance of Resurrecting Pain.
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This week, I found myself wholly inspired after reading a quote by Ehime Ora. She speaks of readdressing subdued pain by giving it a place to live – separate from your body. I think I was most moved by Ora’s words as she managed to articulate something I have been working on recently –…
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24. The romanticisation of suffering.
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TW: Self harm. Something that’s been on my mind for a while, is how struggle is poised as romantic. The idea of being troubled is glorified through all kinds of media – music, film, books etc. To impressionable, underdeveloped minds, seeing this is damaging as it forges a distortion of reality – aesthetically encouraging…
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23. Break from what has shaped you, so you can begin shaping yourself.
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The single best thing I’ve done for myself was decide I deserve to be of a happy mind. If you want to see something happen for yourself, its no-good hoping if you have no intention of putting things in place to fulfil those hopes. Dealing with it once you get there will never work,…