When I Was Successful

I’ve started blogs, projects, jobs, careers. I’ve also ceased to continue them and in doing so, I felt as though I had failed. But every decision I made was calculated and meticulously thought out. I stopped my Tumblr blog because I didn’t enjoy the platform and I no longer felt connected to my words. I took a break until […]

“Go gently.”

I received this advice from a friend when I was not ready to heed it. I didn’t feel I deserved to be gentle with myself, what with all the bad decisions and mistakes I’d made. Still, the advice was a seed planted slowly to cultivate over time until my mind started to adopt it as […]

I’m Learning To Quit

I loved how we looked together. How confident I felt. How people reacted to us. As if we were someone, something important. I had grown dependant. When I was without, I felt empty and insecure. As if I were no one, nothing important. So time and again, I would return back, to gluttonously indulge in its […]