How Can You Respect Others If You Don’t Respect Yourself?

How Can You Respect Others If You Don’t Respect Yourself?

“How are you? Are you well? Are you okay? How’s life been? If ever you want to talk, I’m here”. Let’s stop this one-sided cycle; who’s loving you? And most importantly, who’s respecting you? It’s like a never ending marathon without a water station in sight. I’m parched and proceeding to dire dehydration if I [...]

Is Time A Healer or Additional Baggage?

Is Time A Healer or Additional Baggage?

One thing we all have at our disposal is time. Time to reflect, plan ahead, time to understand our emotions and most of all time to understand ourselves. The more you cling onto hope of gratification or acknowledgement differentiating between right or wrong, your outlook is the only soul suffering whilst everyone else’s carries on. [...]

Truth from Fiction; Believe to Deceive. Are You A Passenger In Your Life?

Truth from Fiction; Believe to Deceive. Are You A Passenger In Your Life?

You can’t ever be in the mind of others. Intentions, hormones, characteristics are just a few that goes into what tale we tell. End goal: depending on your depiction of the storyline you masterfully carve out. As life goes on, it increasingly becomes shorter or at least that’s how it feels. We all have the [...]

Is It Healthy To Have A Selective Memory?

Is It Healthy To Have A Selective Memory?

Forgiving but not forgetting, remembering meanwhile pursing the fantasy we create by selectively choosing favourable memories and artefacts. Who are we kidding, our mental health whilst suppressing reality? Our life is an accumulation of receipts. There’s a trace for everything. Whether that’s figuratively speaking, metaphorically or theoretically, we can’t ignore what has been or what [...]

What’s Mine Is Yours.

What’s Mine Is Yours.

Time gone, still sore. Will I be me again; distance evermore. Paralysis, held up by a crutch, Inhale, feels too much. The density is greater than you could imagine, Half, perished for good, I’d go back, if only you would. Loss, I’m sure you knew, I’d cease my life, just to see you. -- Antonia [...]