After finally coming home from my first semester, from being in such a new environment, the forced distance from what once was my everyday has eroded things that I had conditioned myself to believe were going to be permanent.
'the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.'
i wrote this at 3am in notes app, thought it was cool.
'What university are you hoping for?' said the deputy head.
i was cleaning cobwebs in the house the other day and noticed a fresher spiderweb that i got rid anyways. then i thought of the idea to write from the spider pov, kinda corny idk
I'm not really sure how to foreground this but this piece will probably come out as more of a blurt than anything else. Maybe this will turn into a poem of some sorts?
Typing the word, saying it aloud, mustering the courage and self-awareness to write such a piece was somewhat of a challenge but easily not the worst thing I've done. My only comfort or reasoning behind this post is, that this is a shared experience
Usually a tolerable dull ache sitting comfortably and uninvited at the base of my tummy, just above the star of the next 4-5 days, but a day ago, I felt pain that made me rethink my stance of being a woman.
In 1603, Shakespeare concocted the tragedy that is Othello. The play centres the eponymous character named prior and details on how his imperfections combined with the looming and manipulative force that is Iago are instrumental in his downfall. 414 years later, Rapper Jay z releases his thirteenth studio album titled 4:44, the work rooted in and...
I'm going to informally start this website with a 'hi' to whoever comes across this post, most of my activity is likely to be in this space and the content posted will be a combination of messy think pieces in current issues, organised essay surrounding a mixture of classic literature and modern ideas and perhaps even more personal entries. I'll...