I’ve been going through a lot of positive changes in my life that I now realise are mostly a result of all the bad events that culminated last year. I’ve often touted 2013 as the worst year of my adult life and for many reasons it was. But for many, even more important reasons —…

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What do you do when everything you ever dreamt of suddenly becomes everything that will never exist? How do you carry on with your life when half of your livelihood is ripped out of you and thrown into a shredder that houses tiny pieces of broken dreams and dismantled hope. Watching as everything slips away,…

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Sometimes when I think of God, I think of time. Other times when I think of God, I think of love. Sometimes, I feel like God IS love, and everything else, all the other details and relatively meaningless things that we humans use to separate ourselves, don’t matter one bit. And when I think about…

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It’s unfair, insulting, and perhaps a little childish to allow one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch. But let’s face it, it’s human nature to generalise and group and label. It’s how we apply logic to mostly illogical and inexplicable behaviour. It’s how we armour up and prepare ourselves to more intelligently battle the…

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You’d probably never believe me if I told you that my life has been nothing short of a soap opera this year, judging by the inactivity on my blog. You probably would also not believe that this has been one of the worst years of my life.  When I say the lowest of the low…

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I know some of you have probably been waiting for this post. And honestly, I’d be lying if I told you I had all intentions of writing it. I never got fired up about the Trayvon Martin case, even though I was 15 minutes away from the incident when it happened — even though I…

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Time to yourself Time to be selfish That’s why you never fought for it At least that’s what I thought you said Time to focus on your other needs Find you, without me So I never thought you’d have this up your sleeve I thought you needed to put the pieces of your broken spirit…

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I never ever wanted to do this. But enough people have been telling me to let these feelings out the best way I know how, so here’s to a few moments of vulnerability and frailty in prose. The gloves are off, the gun is buried in a shallow grave outside and there’s nothing around except me…

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In continuation from my last blog, I was thinking about what I had written about people working harder for what they can buy than what they can feel, when it hit me. I finally realised the problem with our society today, from where I sit of course. (Not that I didn’t already have an idea,…

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I feel like what you are about to read is going to make absolutely no sense all together, but I have been walking around for a couple months now with a tremendous variety of emotions inside that pose as carbonation in a soda can. Shake it up, and it will explode. Leave it be, it…

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