ThoughtsoftheBug

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  • The Duality of Perseverance

    The Duality of Perseverance

    For a long time, I’ve considered myself a lazy person. My mother always said so and her opinion was always Correct so of course it’s true…right? This whole post is two days later than it “should” have been (my therapist tells me don’t “should” on myself, it really helps) and I was having a really hard…

  • Cannons and Paper Cranes

    Cannons and Paper Cranes

    I must admit, I was feeling pretty hopeless this week. Depression is an ugly beast that always feels like its fangs are leeching joy from my person. An intravenous morose poison into my brain stem that flows throughout my whole body. If I can’t stop the flow, I’ll bleed out on the carpet. A lifeless…

  • Stuck in the Grey

    Stuck in the Grey

    I can’t see anything except when the light strobes on the underside of the prop plane. Bright flashes show sheets of horizontal rain in-between bouts of turbulence kicking us back and forth. And beyond all that, inky night. It’s the kind of dark that’s more grey than black, more full than empty. I stare at…

  • Turning Counterclockwise

    Turning Counterclockwise

    I was in the shower. The shower is where I tend to do my big thinking…along with all the other normal activities such as belting the latest earworm in my beautiful magical brain. Or so my lovely therapist tells me. My brain has always felt rather oppressive to me, like a cotton cinderblock between my…

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