No man lives without flaw. No woman exists without imperfections of character. No gender-fluid individual occupies this space without fluctuations. Nobody gets through this little slice of paradise without facing up to ridicule, hate and distaste. Nobody is perfect because nothing is perfect to begin with. It’s an insurmountable expectation to hold. By nature of […]
View DetailsI could feel myself slipping. Days came and went. The gym started becoming too much effort to get to. Work is work. It wasn’t a place I enjoyed being. That’s fine though, that’s just part of life right now. Bigger things, better things will come to us all eventually. I don’t mind that work isn’t […]
View DetailsToday I’m tackling the highly emotive topic of abortion. Some of you reading right now will argue that I have absolutely zero say in this whatsoever. You’re entitled to that opinion and you can stop reading right now if you feel the need to do so. Before leaping in, I should outline my position. As […]
View DetailsIf you follow me on Twitter (and you should ‘cause I’m gas) you might have seen a tweet I threw into the ether on Thursday. This week I tried to stop texting people first. From Wednesday to now, I’ve been trying to only interact with people who text me first. It was an experiment of […]
View DetailsI like to think successful people also think they’re not doing enough sometimes. I like to think that they talk shit about themselves too. Steve Jobs might have thought his company was shite. Ghandi could have thought he wasn’t doing enough, or Shakespeare might have thought his poems were absolutely worthless. It makes success feel […]
View DetailsI was originally writing the piece that follows as the initial stage of some cognitive behavioural therapy. Last Monday (the 11th if you want to be specific) I’d been feeling pretty anxious and my head was acting the eejit so I said I’d try and sort it out, as I would do quite often. After […]
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