Category: Inside My Mind
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The Art of My Consumption
My partner used to joke that I was “Uncle Sam’s favorite consumer.” I’d spend my week days ordering random things I didn’t need off Amazon and then my weekends going to Ross to buy more things I didn’t need. I didn’t pay a lick of an attention on whether the corporations I gave my money…
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Sun Keeps Rising on the Reaping
Haymitch was a drop in the bucket. I finished reading Sun Rise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins this past week. It was gut wrenching. Spoke directly to our world today. There were 24 more years of a power displaying brutally massacred children before the spark lit the fuse and then later a halt came…
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My Mental Health Journey
That title should have (so far) in parenthesis after it. I will always be in my mental health journey. Anyway, let’s rewind to a bit closer to the beginning of it though. I’ve had anxiety since I was very little. One of the youngest instances I remember it blatantly was in 3rd grade when I…
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Nothing Changes
Notes entry from April 14, 2024: I’ve been in turmoil. My depression is waay better and my depressive episode has ended, but I can’t move on from the kids being massacred by my tax dollars. I can’t unsee the little girl that tried to escape and died hanging off the side of the building half…
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Before you die, live
“Antes de morir, vive” My dad wrote that to me once years ago. Never in a million years did either of us imagine it would one day resonate so much with me that I’d get it permanently marked on myself in his handwriting, but losing him has taught me a lot of raw realities about…