"When you are in your twenties, even if you’re confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later … later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its ( Read more... )

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A casualty of my legal training, is that now whenever a disagreement occurs between myself and someone close to me, emotions fly out of the window ( Read more... )

Only after we lose everything, are we free to become anything.

Today marks the one month of my being offcially called to the bar and honestly I've never been more depressed.

I'm thrown into the deep end, with too much for my brain to handle. In my rush to produce the documents to meet deadlines, I end up with sloppy work I'm ashamed to put my name to, and countless careless mistakes which, had I more time, ( Read more... )

A friend went to work in Poland at a farm for autistic adults. She currently runs a photography business with a couple of friends.

Every time I look at her videos, or hear about her life, I turn green with envy, because not because its the kind of life I want to lead, but because she's living the life she wants to. With the sole motivation coming ( Read more... )

My sister plucked 4 strands of white hair from my head yesterday ( Read more... )

Day 7 of cold turkey from coffee, and you realize that you're perpetually sleepy, skulking about in a zombie-like state, your brain wrapped in a gauze of fuzz that you never seem to shake off ( Read more... )

I get awaken by a phone call from fmw, and emails from my friends in middle of my sleep, and stay up to reply them.

Every single thing I looked forward to this week got cancelled. Just as I type this, my plans for tmr which I was quite excited about ALSO got scrapped.

Great. To think I came back early to sleep just so I wouldn't be late for it.

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It is not the cost of the gift that I care about. More often than not, it is the emotional value of the gift that matters to me, the effort that is put into the gift and the note ( Read more... )