Learning How to Get Up After The Fall Again

Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that dark nights and tiredness, demotivation and loneliness are not infinite. We have been told it a thousand times, we read it in magazines, in inspirational quotes, and it sinks in for a brief moment before we forget it all over again. We wake up, struggle, find ourselves heavier …

Why You Should Stop Letting People Tell You That You NEED A Partner

So here's a subject that's come up in my life a lot and one I will always gladly have discussions with friends about. If you're like me, then the only relationship you've been in was a primary school romance that ended when I moved town. Like all 5 year old children end a relationship, it …

My First Christmas As An ‘Adult’.

As I write this post I am sat in my pyjamas, fully refreshed from a day of gorging on food and alcohol. My belly weighs double it's weight, and my mind is lighter from the worry a day of such indulgence does not allow. The exhaustion from a long Christmas Eve shift in retail has …

The Middle Ground – A Poem

You never meant to hurt me, I’m sure, But it seemed as if our closeness would last. We lived and breathed our love But you never granted me the privilege Of believing, of knowing, That it was anything more Than friendship. Maybe we weren’t in love, But we weren’t content to be Much less than …