Tag "Life"

James' Journal 19 Comments

JAMES’ JOURNAL (Entry 50)

October 31 When I started A-level, I was surrounded by rich and semi-spoilt-to-rotten kids who talked about going to jand for holidays and parties and other things my seventeen-year-old self

Series (Non-Fiction) 32 Comments

AS I LIVE: 3 (Unexpected Beautiful)

I am excited. I want to say something, write something, but I lack the right words. Not that I don’t have a good lexicon; I just feel like words can’t

Series (Non-Fiction) 44 Comments

The +++ Journals: Entry X (The Positivity In Positive)

About six weeks ago, the numbers 471 became my worst nightmare but also my biggest motivator. I was gutted by my CD4 count mostly because I was not expecting it

Fiction 38 Comments

ALL THE COLOURS

Darego woke to bright light streaming in from the window. The curtains were parted, and the glass pane was shifted to the left, leaving the room open to sunlight and

Series (Non-Fiction) 17 Comments

THE QUESTION: CAN YOU BE DIFFERENT AND HAPPY? (Part 2)

“Happiness is the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky The happiness question is one

Series (Non-Fiction) 21 Comments

AS I LIVE (Family Isn’t Everything)

Remember Bobby from the Before I Die series? Well, he’s back with a season 2 of his earlier telling of his journey through life as a HIV positive young man

Series (Non-Fiction) 61 Comments

THE QUESTION: CAN YOU BE DIFFERENT AND HAPPY?

This entry should probably begin with a definition of happiness. What is happiness? What do we mean when we say we are happy? What does it mean to be happy?

Series (Fiction) 16 Comments

Those Awkward Moments (Episode 15)

Previously on THE AWKWARD MOMENTS: So remember how Kevin got a lifetime opportunity to be the songwriter on the homecoming album of international singer, Demoniker Dawson? Well, that’s not exactly

The Happenings 17 Comments

Pope Francis Speaks On Gay Marriage

Pope Francis – who has largely avoided directly speaking of controversies over LGBT rights despite heavy lobbying from conservative and liberal Catholics – made his most concrete reference to gay

James' Journal 22 Comments

JAMES’ JOURNAL (Entry 48)

September 25 Many of us have been in situations where we have the affections of someone we are not really attracted to. Some people are mean about it, others try