The world of social media is a fickle world. You can follow, unfollow, befriend, unfriend, block and unblock as often as you like. You don’t have to look people in the eye as you do any of these. You can follow the lives of celebrities as easy as the lives of people you’ve known for years. The problem is the ease of all the above. So you haven’t spoken for a while, you’ve fallen out with them, they’ve done something…
Hollow. The first word that comes to mind when you love someone who will never love you back. Empty. Void. Blank. Pointless. Hollow. Because that’s exactly what it is. It’s like eating junk food when you’re not even hungry because you’re sure, so surethat it will satiate you. That it will make you happy. That it will give you some sort of sense of satisfaction, of contentment. But that feeling never comes and you’re left just sitting in front of…
Quite a few years back a long term relationship failed and my ex left me. Whilst that may be the topic of another post, obviously I found myself alone. Now I know that 25 is by no means old but I’d only ever had two relationships, both of which were long term, so dating wasn’t exactly something I was practiced in. I met a girl at work on an impromptu night out. We spoke briefly but didn’t exchange numbers or…
After dropping off little PG at school this morning I set off to work. The high school kids all waiting for their bus. I saw a lad of maybe 14/15 was stood on his own at a bus stop whilst the other six or seven of them were stood together laughing and joking. It made me think back to when I was at high school. I hated it. Bullied from pretty much day one, friends with others whilst it suited…