Dear Future Child, don’t be like your mother. Don’t spend your childhood sprawled on the floors of bookshops, reading those books. Books are dangerous. They will turn you into a thinker, and rarely are thinkers happy people. They are bound to have a rough inner life. Lemony Snicket was right: “All the secrets of the […]
Tag Archives: Introversion
One night I just woke up Abruptly 3am and I was wide awake. I sit up and put my earphones on Blare music from my phone. When your ears are plugged and you hear nothing but the beats and the echoes it creates the illusion of being separate from the world. I think about how […]
“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.” —Joanne Harris … My mother has said to me that even from an early age, I had already seemed somewhat…different. Not bad-different, just…different. … … I […]
