Decisions

Moving country is a huge decision. Meanwhile it's part of my nature to strongly question my decisions and therefore it seems an undeniable and inescapable that part of me will eventually question that decision too.

Strange, two weeks ago I was sat with a friend saying how I'd never really want to surrender my reflective side, which in reality means remain regardless of any unideal.

There's definitely an arse end, but then I mostly think and often times proddingly self-remind that there always is to anything. I suppose I both remember and regularly forget that it's just easier when …

On Accents & Festivities

I've been thinking a lot about accents recently.

It's perhaps that every day living in another country means confronting the inadequacies of my own. Or because I've found myself discussing them a lot in the company of friends recently - them asking my opinion on it broadly and occasionally theirs specifically.

I think our inclination is to dislike accents, or at the very least having them. Most people I know who have a desire to speak another language want to sound authentic, as do I myself. They obviously highlight differences, maybe serve to underscore a groupings that either …

Adulthood's Island

I think I'm having one of my slightly more sentimental moments. Pensive over many things from the present and the past.

A lot of it is to do with this balance that we maintain in life. There is this cliché that no man is an island, something I vehemently believe - and yet I realise that part of becoming an adult is to be comfortable when you are just you.

That's why I call it a balance - it's that neither extreme has any longevity and yet elements of both are important to our being.

I mull sometimes over what …