The Northern 📍

  The marathon continues.      Another week has arrived. Monday Funday, baby. The never-ending rollercoaster called life. It truly is a rat-race, when you sit down and think about it. Always on the go, always chasing after something that doesn’t exist. Spending your life running around, trying to collect pieces of paper because you believe they’ll buy you freedom. More like free-dumb. Seriously. How can anybody still believe it anymore?      I sometimes think about a great piece I read once by a professor from a University in Canada. They basically said that, all those who say we should tear down society and dismantle it, have never lived in another form of rule other than the one they know. Which is true. I’ve never lived in a communist country. I’ve never had to fight, steal or starve for food. Capitalism is the only structure I have ever spent my life within, seeing as I was born into it. However, I still believe there is something more. I still sta...

  Hello Darkness, my Old Friend.      Today is the day I dread the most. The day I do not enjoy anymore. Funny, when I was younger, today was all the hype in the world. Now? It’s a constant reminder of just how far I’ve fallen.      Nightmares continue to haunt me, as I struggle with this battle. I dreamt of being surrounded by family last night, all gathered to celebrate life. My 3 day old nephew was there as well, fresh out the womb. He didn’t look like much of a child, to be honest. His face and eyes seemed more like they were extraterrestrial than anything else. Perhaps all newborns look like that. Or, perhaps I was dreaming. Go figure, eh?      Overall, being surrounded should have been a cause for celebration. Instead? I was stricken with grief. Stricken with the financial bear of reality, haunting me even within my dreams. Amazing, how the chains we are given in this realm, follow us onto the next. How the mind is able to conjure ...