Tag: depression
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September musings
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The Day Everything Changed
One full year isolated from friends and loved ones. One full year out of work, out of school. One full year of faces hidden behind a collection of masks. One full year of life as we know it, thrown into complete disarray. Exactly a year ago when the world went into a standstill, locked down…
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Grey and Yellow
2020 was life-changing, it was exceptionally challenging that I can’t even put in a good word. It was unremarkably heavy, a burdened weight unnecessarily shouldered for the past 10 months. Suddenly, everyone had to forego with comfortable, we did not have a choice and that was frustrating. Life had to hide behind the mask. Loss…
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Cliff glider
I never imagined getting affected by the flimsiest of things but here I am, a chaotic mess of sad, angry and feeling bad. Yes, I felt bad. It never crossed my mind that I would develop anxiety but the past 10 months of uncontrollable uncertainty has turned me into a silent wreck. Isolation and confinement…
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Vivid dreams
They say the moments that’s had the most impact in your life are the most vivid. I remember the dining table was round. I ate eggs for breakfast that triggered my allergies. My elbows were swollen. The bathroom door was brown and open when I received the first hit from the belt’s buckle. I was…
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Rainy Friday Afternoon
When everyone is used to running towards you, expecting you to fix their cracks and you try to seal it, feigning wit and refreshing humor, to somehow complete whatever it is that they lack. You have this way of making things better after you, it’s hard to explain. The sponge so they say. But who…
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See
You say she is okay because she has the life you desire and yours is as miserable as fuck. But you fail to see the truth behind the walls she puts up to shield her self from her cruel reality, high enough so no one, not even she, could penetrate through. She masks her face…
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End Results.
Our mind is a treacherous place. Trust is a fantasy. Monsters we have returned to. Malevolent we have become. We speak without knowing. We act without caution. We are selfish. A dark lore looms just above sanity; a sudden push might cease us to exist. Our epiphanies come to be catatonic. Everyday a catastrophic calamity…