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Hello and happy october everyone! It has been a hot minute, is anyone else feeling extremely exhausted from life? I am currently in a period where I need to let myself be ‘good enough’. I have been trying to hold everything together physically and mentally in this past year and I am really over it.… Read more
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It’s all things that have been said before. Finish school. Persue higher education or a trade. Get a ‘good enough’ job. Or if you’re more of a family person. Finish schooling. Fall in love with ‘your person.’ Get married. Have children. I’m obviously not saying that these paths are mutually exclusive, or that they don’t… Read more
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Happy July, I hope that everyone had a lovely pride month! Even though I didn’t do much to celebrate, I have been enjoying the pride I have been feeling inside myself recently. I was planning on posting poems from my novelette that are about sexuality, love and belonging. But to my dismay … I barely… Read more
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I have been really struggling to write lately. Not because of the absence of time. But because I go through periods of not believing in myself. I started my postgraduate degree in writing this year and although it sounds so obvious, it is MUCH more work than I anticipated. School on its own is very… Read more
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I always thought what I have been feeling was apathy. And at times it is, but maybe not as much as I thought. Yesterday I came across a new word, “Anhedonia”. By definition it means, “the inability to enjoy activities that are usually pleasurable.” This, especially recently, is something that I keep having to battle with… Read more