Depression, it frustrates,

it makes you lose yourself,

yet you don’t know why,

it makes you want to cry,

yet you don’t know why,

it makes you want to die,

yet you don’t know why,

and that’s why it hurts,

because you don’t want to

lose yourself,

you don’t want to cry,

you don’t want to die,

you just want to know why,

why you feel this way,

why the monster within,

must have its way,

why you can’t just wake up

tomorrow, and be okay.

You can be, and you will be okay,

depression,

it’s a condition,

a battle…

To tell the story, I met this girl through work, and we got chatting and hit it off and to cut a long story short, arranged to go out on a date. We were going to meet later in the week, but we were chatting over Snapchat and things were, to say the least, heating up between us, because of this she invited me that very night to a bar near where she lived. She was going there with her friends — which is why previously we were not meeting that night, there was a band night on and she…

Don’t give up, that’s all people kept saying to me, that’s all I kept saying to myself. But it was so difficult, I was lying flat on my back on the floor, and the task my physiotherapist had given me was to stand up. But how was a person supposed to stand up when they couldn’t use their hands?

I looked at my hands — which were locked inside splints that stretched more than a third of the way up my forearms — both were functional, yet both were useless, my wrists were the reason why I had torn the…

I worked for a period as a wedding photographer, which has given me a unique insight into weddings, for example, every speech given at a wedding sounds pretty much the same, and that’s because clearly everybody Google’s wedding speech and then uses whatever Google puts up at the top as the outline for their speech, all the jokes Google gives included.

Also, in the run-up to the wedding, it is likely that you will get a request of some sort along the lines of My mother hates having her picture taken, and is going to tell you that you are…

My friend’s grandmother getting a terminal cancer diagnosis taught me the most important lesson I’ve ever learned about being positive: it truly is a way of thinking.

Bad things happen, everyone knows that, they are an inevitability, not only because it is the bad things that happen that we use as a barometer by which to define the good things, but because literally it is an inevitability specifically because bad things just happen. They do. No matter how hard we work to try to stop bad things from happening, bad things will still happen.

This is why being positive truly…

Wow, what a blast of heat, heaven help me the sun was already starting to rise. If I took the underground route I would never make it into the library in time. And I had to make it in time, even now all I could do was dream of my yacht drifting on the horizon, the storm clouds brewing overhead. I was a woman at sea, but only if I made it in time.

I started hurrying along the sand road making certain to hug the buildings as I did so. They were all super tall providing great cover from…