“I keep thinking that my family is trying to harm me in some way, especially my mother. So it’s hard for me to trust her.” ~ Scarletrose from psychforums.com Paranoia – it affects us all to some extent. But for some of us, paranoid and suspicious thoughts pervade our daily lives like cancerous tumours. I [...]
The sound of incessant chatter fills the spacious, ambient halls outside of your office. All you can hear, as you put your head down to sift through the hundreds of papers strewn over your desk, are the echo’s of small talk, snatches of workplace gossip and the occasional drill of workmen in the office next [...]
You walk to a deserted park bench in your track pants, eating Doritos. Suddenly, in the dwindling light of the evening you have an epiphany: you’re an unsuccessful, unattractive lump of decaying lard. You’re obese, your ankles ache from numerous varicose veins, you’re single, your B.O really stinks, you have no hobbies, and you have [...]
You’re stuck, stiffly and irrevocably stuck in the middle of a group like a fly in gum. Waiting there silently but impatiently, you click off the screen displaying your playlist. They’re talking about some so-and-so who cheated on so-and-so, who ended up with this-or-that the next week in the hospital. You nod and pretend to [...]
You flip lethargically through your playlist of songs hoping to find something soothing and relaxing. Everyone is fighting and shouting in the kitchen while you’re curled up next to your bedroom window, looking up at the night sky. If only there was that perfect ambient song to help regain your peace, to help you drift [...]
You sit down, pull your hoodie tightly over your head, and plug in your earphones hard. It’s time for some alone time and you desperately want to block out the world, at least for the time being. The only problem is you’re bored. You’re bored of listening to the same old songs by the same [...]
Everyone thinks they’re great listeners. What’s easier than sitting down and just hearing what a person has to say right? Wrong. Hearing isn’t necessarily listening, nor is it necessarily listening well. As G.K. Chesterton said “there’s a lot of difference between hearing and listening.” The truth is, many people come to conversations with agendas, whether [...]
“Emotional violence is another kind of abuse … it’s not about words because an emotionally abusive person doesn’t always resort to using the verbal club, but rather the verbal untraceable poison.” ~ Augusten Burroughs It was after reading the above passage in a book I recently completed by Augusten Burroughs that I stopped dead [...]
Dear Mom and Dad, I’m writing this letter to let you help me. I feel sad and very bad when you make angry faces at me and sometimes make me do things I hate doing. This is why I’m naughty sometimes, and throw tantrums. You don’t let me do things I love, instead you make [...]
Friday. 1:02pm. Lunchtime. I scramble away from the library with barely the clothes on my sweaty, shaking back. I’m panting, and shaking like a freshly molested chihuahua. It’s a war zone in there. It’s as though they emptied the states local nursing homes into one, half acre block of land, and let them roam [...]
“Now in sad autumn, I take my darkening path, a solitary bird.” ~ Japanese poem, Basho When you were a teenager, what did you do to rebel? Did you turn to drugs, alcohol, sex, or perhaps join a punk, emo, or goth subcultural group? Well in Japan, the youth are different. They completely withdraw [...]
“The consequences of the poet’s refusal to disseminate her work in a faithful and orderly fashion are still very much with us.” ~ p.629, My Wars Are Laid Away In Books, Alfred Habegger Elusive, mysterious and reclusive, Emily Dickinson was perhaps one of the most introverted female poets in history. Born on December 10, 1830 [...]
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