Imperfect.

It’s widely accepted that nobody is perfect, right? It’s solid advice, but let’s be honest, little quips like “nobody is perfect” don’t hold much weight to a concrete self-hatred, do they? When comparing yourself to others (as people often do to validate their self-worth), it’s easy to see the people around you as higher beings […]

Despair.

Did you know that the Earth narrowly escaped an apocalyptic event in July of 2012? On the 23rd of July, the sun expelled something known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, also known as a Solar Storm. A Coronal Mass Ejection (or CME for short) is a release of large quantities of magnetised plasma and if […]

Comfortable.

I had a moment recently with a friend that kind of pulled my sub-conscious off of the couch he’d been crashing on for the past week and a bit and just kinda smacked him around. It was this perfect “oh shit” moment that really captured and highlighted one of the main problems I have with […]

Two Questions.

When I went to College, there was always this foreign stigma about Monivae that one can’t really describe with words, only with obscene hand gestures and equally colourful language. Frankly, some of the folk that migrated from Monivae to College didn’t help thy School of Catholics’ reputation (not looking at anybody in particular, of course […]

Polaroids

Something about the weightiness of my Instax Wide 300 Or the click the camera makes when it takes a picture Or the whirring noise of a fresh new shot getting pushed out of the top of the camera Something about it all brings me immense pleasure. Something else that brings me immense pleasure is spending time […]

Music is rad. Food is rad.

Coming into contact with new music is something I alike to eating out. That might sound kinda funky (intended), but hear me out. You probably wanna go with a genre, like Pop, Rock or Jazz, for example. Generally you can lump some genres together, like Punk Rock or Indie Dreamwave. This is like choosing […]

A Rock.

this week was pretty wild, to say the least. and to say the least, I’d be saying “I’m a lot less scared of everything and I’m actually in a solid, good mental state at the moment.” I’ve had some surprising character development, and I think it really shined yesterday, during Deb Practice. now, you might […]

Disconcerting Realism

So, life update. Things are certainly different. Jarringly so. It’s not necessarily worse in some cases, but it’s a noticeable enough change to make me varyingly uncomfortable. But maybe that’s a good thing. After all, being out of your comfort zone can’t be the worst possible scenario, right? But it feels like the worst possible […]

Gone.

It’s part of the human condition that we don’t fully grasp how good something is until it’s gone. A shocking revelation, I know, but I feel as though it’s not really explained why that is the way that it is. It probably has been before, but I’ve just never come across it. Here’s my theory though: It […]

Lack of Simplicity.

Movies and songs tend to simplify love into this tiny defined space that can be played with until an artist feels no joy in toying with it any more. I sometimes wish life were like that. That you could easily form love as a thing and give it to a person. But it’s not that […]