Romance
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Directed shame
I wanted to explore an idea, that of shame being a weaponised human emotion. This thought came to me while talking to my partner Em about a social news article we heard in the car while going somewhere. Sparked by the subject matter I asked Em what she thought, as I often do, primarily because Continue reading
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Constants end
I’m not going to tell you the details, but it’s been a month, and at the point of writing this it’s still that month… There are things in life that seem like they’ve always been there, and then they’re not, and it’s a shock when they go. My neighbour has this year experienced her husband’s Continue reading
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Pleasure in vengeance
It was 2017 and I was bitter then.. I became something I had hoped I would never have, I hoped I never had been before, I wished to be a bad guy. I harboured thoughts of some sort of revenge, I wished for the justice of things, for a recompense, reciprocity. You see at the Continue reading
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Is misery necessary?
“Marry well and you will be a happy man, marry poorly and you will become a philosopher” I can’t remember who said this, I do now think it may be true though. I read and wrote philosophy when I was married, I studied economics and politics too, and I felt very strongly about all three Continue reading
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Dreams
I never remember in the morning what they contained, the details. I only know how, upon waking up, they made me feel. Now that I was having good days for a change I wondered why I was repeatedly feeling dread and a sense of loss immediately after I woke. This feeling stayed with me throughout Continue reading
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Impoverishment and ire
You work your life, you do it because a somebody or a group of somebodies make the decision that you can create value on their behalf and they are willing to give you tokens that you can then exchange for those items that you need and those things that you desire. Simply, this is the Continue reading
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The diary of an unremarkable man
Every now and then I find myself falling victim to an acute case of melancholy. I am, of course as most are, a quite reflective soul, given to assessing my life and summarising it up to this point; trying to find a reason to believe, and maybe we all need to, that I am valid, Continue reading
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Wedded
Is traditional marriage an outmoded financial transaction between a man and the father of the bride that guarantees that the woman is treated as an owned item, as property? The traditions that we associate with it are those of a transaction; the asking for the hand of the daughter and the father paying for the Continue reading
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A Race to the Bottom
In any relationship the person who cares the least has the power to dominate the dynamic, the power to make the other person abide by their vision of how the relationship will pan out. In any business the ambition is to failure and leadership is a position the deserved are mostly excluded from. I am Continue reading
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