Marmalade Skies

I feel I have lost my flow recently. I try to think of ideas, and the most I can come up with is a banal description of my day.
My blog has always been a place for me to ask questions, to vent my frustration. I often find my answers simply by exploring the possibilities in [...]

There are phantoms and shadows which force me to ask questions every day.
I would like to say that the phantoms come from lost friends, friends who never understood my ‘weird hairstyles’ or sarcastic jokes.
But most of those friends lurk in the shadows of my past. Nothing they ever said to me meant anything of value.
Out [...]

As John Lennon said: ‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans’. I wrote about this in a previous post (which you can read if you follow the link) and it was really about how fearing life can hold you back from even making plans to begin with.
Another thought that arises [...]

Is it possible to make the most of what you want when you have it? Instead of looking forward to the day you don’t want to arrive, is it really possible to just forget that and live wholly in the present?
I am moving back home in two days and though I will be going on [...]

One thing I have realised in the last three years at university: I want to change the world.
This doesn’t mean world peace, or ending hunger, or becoming prime minister etc. I used to think that these were the only ways in which I could change the world, but I suppose as I have grown as [...]