I’m Not Good Enough

One of my best and worst traits is my constant need to better myself.  I work as hard as I can in everything I do, I like challenges and pushing myself further and finding new avenues to attempt to excel at... I keep wanting to do more, to be more than I am, and whilst …

March: Coaches, Strikes and a Whole Lot of Change

Sometimes we have no idea what direction our life is going to take us, and let it carry us away before we've even registered that our lives are changing... I feel like that's happened with me and my blog; I started it because I needed a creative outlet, and now here I am 1 year …

I’ll Never be Tall and Skinny.

As a child, I was spoon-fed this Western idea of beauty through the media: long legs, long (usually blonde) hair, abs, big boobs... the whole lot.  I agreed, these girls were absolutely gorgeous, but as a frizzy haired, black 5 year old, I believed that I could be exactly the same when I grew up. …

How’s Life? | Everything, all at Once

I am exhausted. That's nothing new; I survive on around 4 hours of sleep a night, I don't really do the whole coffee thing, and I spend a lot of the time moving around doing things.  However, I think I've reached a whole new level of exhaustion and it's incredibly overwhelming. There was a moment last night …

Wanderlust

I was never one that was obsessed with travel.  Don't get me wrong, I went on holidays and I loved every moment of them; I've been to so many amazing countries with my family that I don't even know where to start.  However, I've never considered myself someone with a passion for jetting off to …

Do I live in the Future?

I wrote in my first ever post on here that I started blogging because I was at a point in my life where I was lost and had no motivation.  Since then, I've been given opportunities that I never thought I would, developed a whole different set of skills, and although I may not know exactly what …

How’s Life? | Edition 1

Last year I felt down a lot of the time.  Life is never easy and it's never one constant stream of happy, and I've learnt to accept the string of emotions over time... But it doesn't mean they get much easier.  I monitored these happy and sad moments through my Project 2017 series, in which I …

12 Days of Blogging – Day 1 | So This is Christmas

I'm writing this a few days in advance because I'd preferably like to take Christmas Day off for obvious reasons.  However, today marks the first post in my 12 Days of Blogging: where I daily blog for the 12 days after Christmas.  Why am I doing this?  Well, honestly, it's somewhat a tribute to the last year, where I …

Reflecting on November

Urm... So, I don't try to focus on stats too much but my blog somehow took off in November?! I don't even know what happened but I am beyond grateful and I felt like I had to do a post about it because honestly I'm still a bit confused (in a super excited and happy way). November has been an …

Compartmentalising

Okay so I've mentioned about a million times that I've been super busy recently but here we go again (I promise this post is gonna get better).  As you may know, I had a bunch of blog posts scheduled for like a month and a half so I didn't have to blog much through September and most of …