Or how I learned that nothing is a mistake Few things make me roll my eyes more than flipping through my old journals. Every other page reads like an ode to a different — often unrequited — love. I stumbled into romance like a drunken sailor after last orders at the pub. I wrote song…
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You Can Be Very Happy and Very Sad at the Same Time
Don’t believe me? It’s easy! Here are 10 simple, fool-proof steps to inhibit two completely opposite states at once.
The Onion
A few years ago, I went grocery shopping with my boyfriend at the pristine supermarket in his lush, metropolitan slice of the city. “I’ll get the onions while you grab the red peppers,” he’d said to me, not realising that he was about to awaken a long-forgotten dream. I perused the unfamiliar produce aisle in…
The Meaning of Life; The Meaning(less) of Death
Death is so final, and I’m not sure how to deal with that. I’ve always known that, in theory. I first grasped the meaning of death when I was 9 years old, the year my grandfather passed away. I remember it taking a while for me to understand that I will never see him again,…
Happiness in the city: reaching rock-bottom to feel alive again
Exactly a month ago, I wrote a (granted, very dramatic) journal entry titled ‘who stole my happiness?’. It wasn’t the first unhappy entry though.
Coffee & Chaos 