When I was 16 I came across a book series (still my favourite fantasy series to date), and without going full nerd on you I'll quickly explain why it changed my life for the better. A certain select few

I haven't posted in a while, motivation comes and goes and the past few weeks I've been a combination of busy and low on motivation. I have managed to stay away from cigarettes, cravings still there, unstable

Our closest star slowly slips over the horizon while the others start to show their light from horizon to horizon the sky is a gradient of colour from black, to purple, to blue to orange to pink to red

I wanted to write and post this soon after my last post regarding failure and getting up and trying again, but I didn't. On the day I wrote my last post is the day that I started a cold turkey quitting

Failing is a part of life. If you're ever going to try and do your best, give 100%, at anything then you are going to fail. Once, twice? Probably an uncountable amount of times. And the absolutely shitty

We all make choices We all must make choices, life doesn’t exactly feel like a train track where the best route is always laid out in front of us. Sometimes those choices are small, “Do I have a smoothie

Another short story from my collection of older material, I'm hoping to post it all before I start moving on to new stuff, I wrote all these to be read, years or months ago but never did anything with

This is a short story(?) I wrote about how well, you decide. Is the sun still up? Or has it been replaced by the moon? Does it really matter? Here in the workshop, in the mind of the painter, the artist,

This couch, this very couch and position is an anchor, here I am whole, here I am complete. The speakers, 2 metres away send sound waves through the air and with them comes emotion, feeling, a crashing

This isn't a short story, this is an observation. Boxing Day, the 26th of December 2019, I go to my job as a waiter/bartender at a busy pub in the heart of Fremantle, Western Australia After a hectic morning

If you saw my last painting post you'll have a vague idea of what I mean when I say I go through low moods (context is only a few posts down on my blog), the silver lining of these is the increased desire

Overwhelming gratitude at the awesome beauty of nature by simply taking a moment to observe. It's good for your health, I do recommend it......

My absolute favourite part, of my absolute favourite movie, is the scene in Forrest Gump, where Forrest is running, no destination in mind, just running, because he felt like it, and he steps in shit.

I sit on the late night train and observe All the animals They're just like me

I go through mood swings, have for years, sometimes severe and sometimes close enough 'normal', or at-least what my baseline used to be, that I can carry on with things without worrying or thinking about

Maybe motivation doesn't really exist? I've found all my life that I struggle to start things, I don't remember before school much but I know that during school if I had the opportunity to put off starting

Greetings to the world of Steemit, I'm excited to introduce myself and my blog, my name is Jared, I'm a 24 year old psychology student from Australia who dabbles in writing, painting, magick and am generally