thinking since '98

as 2016 comes to a close, it's time to reflect and fully realise what a godawful year it has been. even though i've only been alive for 18 of them, 2016 definitely comes in at the bottom three. but, when i look back on the year and all the terrible events that have happened globally and in my own life, there's always been...

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a list by a disappointed person 1. give yourself a moment or two to fully absorb the reality of what has happened. build a cocoon and don't leave until you can wrap your head around the situation and thus be able to become a pretty butterfly (more on that later). however, make sure you're accepting the reality and 2. don't make excuses. from...

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i know i'm late to the party so i'm going to keep this short and sweet (edit: my bad): after the excruciating wait to finish exams, i finally read harry potter and the cursed child. during the period where i couldn't experience jk rowling's new book play script for myself, my anticipation quickly turned to worry as i saw all the other potter fans in...

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turning 18 in australia opens quite a few doors. you're an adult. you can vote. you can get your probationary licence. you can enter strike bowling after 9pm. you can also legally drink and go clubbing and, with a wave of the magical key that is my id, that is what i did a couple of nights ago. before i turned 18,  i...

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exams are over. school is over. routine is over. childhood is over. now is the beginning. i've been so focused on everything that is ending in these past few weeks that i've completely disregarded everything that is about to start. yesterday was my first day of the holidays that were thirteen years in the making. though they're not really holidays; they're a bridge...

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so as it might/might not be apparent, the last few posts have been just some drafts that have been hanging around in my folders i've staggered out to make it look like i'm active when really i've been quite negligent in the blogging world. but, in a surprising twist, i actually have a valid reason for ignoring maintenance and am not just procrastinating...

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she woke up, heart racing, ready to run into the forest, hidden from the sun there she met fairies dressed in petals and gold and a story about a fire-breathing dragon they told but she left them to don on astronaut attire so she could float between the stars and the sun afire before tumbling back to earth with its oceans and cities...

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this throwback is a bit more sombre. it's actually a piece i wrote for a competition a couple of years ago but you had to pay to be shortlisted and little broke kid me wasn't up for that. so here it is, enjoy: He told me to observe, so I did. I sat on the park bench just as the sky was turning...

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over at sailing through books, she runs a great monthly meme called "wifsy" that you can find out all about here (while you're there, check out her reviews - i've added many a book to my to-be-read because of her!). basically the gist of it is judging a book by its cover, so i've decided to give it a go this month with the...

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do you ever just want to restart? hold power button to turn off, no i don't want to save. back to when your skin had never been touched by lotion or cheap perfume. back to when your knees had never been scarred from crawling between trees. back to when your head had never been filled with these treacherous thoughts. before you built the...

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i never understood how people can be so obvious about their pain. how they wear sadness on their face as bold as a bloodstain. their movements lethargic and their shoulders turned down. i never understood how they could so easily frown. aren't you supposed to hide that all from the outside world? keep it bottled up inside you, leave it in your stomach...

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clouds are so weird. they're just these giant bundles of fluff way way up high. i mean, obviously there's a science behind them and their existence can be explained with two dollar words like vaporisation and orographic forcing, but to me they honestly don't even look real - they look like a painting of the sky by the gods where their hands slipped and the...

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i can cross rivers and climb mountains with energy to spare i can explore oceans and lift boulders like they're barely even there but give me a social excursion or a two hour dinner and suddenly i understand how bears can sleep through winter my cheeks hurt from smiling that superficial smile in an attempt to make others think their gossip is worthwhile...

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people say the road to success is tough. it's not a straight line to the top - there's rocks and there's cliffs and there's valleys and they're all going to be in your way. but if you're really worthy of success, you'll jump the rocks and scale the cliffs and cross the valleys and then you can look down at them from your...

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by mia at chaotic tales Have you ever drowned yourself in your own thoughts? It’s harder to drown in your own thoughts than in water. In water you struggle, you know you’re drowning and if people see, they’ll know and some might even try to save you.             Oh sweetheart don’t you ever let yourself drown in your thoughts! Its hard to get out,...

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i've always had a fascination with all the other people born in 1998. we've been alive for the same amount of time - give or take a few months - but lead entirely different lives. i'll admit, i can be a bit petty when i see people my age who are successful and doing amazing things like amandla stenberg, jaden smith or ariel...

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the candle swayed, dancing with the sound waves produced by the other conversations the other couples were having on the other tables. valentine's day - the restaurants busiest night. as well as his. date #3 was in the bathroom after she excused herself with a sly grin to powder her nose or whatever it was that girls did in there. he was glad...

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okay so i was searching through my computer for a file i needed to work on when, oh no what a shame, i was completely distracted by other old documents i found including this masterpiece from back in year 10 literature. we were studying oedipus and were supposed to write a creative piece based on the play with complete free rein on how...

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i know i'm late to the party but, hey, the party don't start until the cripplingly awkward socialite walks in, amiright? anyways, better late than never because i had absolutely no idea what i was missing before i had discovered the glistening treasure trove that is webcomics. i love comics and graphic novels just as much as the next 5 minute geek. i've...

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last night i went to a friend's 18th and things got a little bit crazy to say the least. and by 'crazy' i mean of the alcoholic persuasion. i don't remember the exact moment when the parties i went to with people from my year level stopped being pass the parcel and started being shots shots shots but it is what it is...

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(image courtesy of this place) the past few days have been the best of my life and it's all because of pokémon go. from the moment i heard that pokémon go could possibly be a thing, i've been more excited than a labrador who's seen a tennis ball (which is to say pretty well excited). i waited to pounce on every update. i...

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(image courtesy of netflix) i've been a fan of bo burnham's ever since i stumbled across one of his videos while in a deep dark hole of youtube a couple of years ago. what. immediately became my favourite comedy special, nudging donald glover's weirdo out of its long-running title at first place. i still love weirdo, but bo's mixture of music, narrative and cringingly...

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