WORDS | Negative Space
where the gold roses grow
Isn't it funny how something so simple as a re-blogging platform such as Tumblr can be so telling of ones state of mind? Of all the internet accounts I own, I must admit it is the one place where I just let everything out with very little care. Mine currently reflects two very opposing things; love and loss and I am more than happy to share it with you.
I think I am currently in quite a melancholic state of being despite all the good in my life presently. I don't mind telling you that I have just entered into a new relationship after 8 months of fighting the world on my own and it is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. There is no longer just me, but him now also, and I need to take care to remind myself of that sometimes and work at not pushing him away. I need to admit my vulnerabilities and anchor them rather than building up defence upon defence. I am not a battleground and he shouldn't have to fight to find me in the middle of it.
Having also recently fallen off the blogging circuit, due to university work surmounting rapidly and my lips having been brushed against those of deadlines, I can now once again pour my energy back into something that I am passionate about. Of other passions, I can speak of the becoming of my love for my course and finally the work I am creating amongst it all. I have thus far this academic year been in receipt of good grades and recognition, a far cry from first year when I could only blindly see my failings, and I am now quite content. My most recent completed humble body of work has even been taken up upon by a magazine or two and I am over-the-moon at the thought of being officially published.
So as you can read, between these lines, there is both the good and the not so. I have taken up on some opportunities and frivolously wasted others but most importantly, with each decision I take, I am learning and that is the thing I want to absorb most.
Isn't it funny how something so simple as a re-blogging platform such as Tumblr can be so telling of ones state of mind? Of all the internet accounts I own, I must admit it is the one place where I just let everything out with very little care. Mine currently reflects two very opposing things; love and loss and I am more than happy to share it with you.
I think I am currently in quite a melancholic state of being despite all the good in my life presently. I don't mind telling you that I have just entered into a new relationship after 8 months of fighting the world on my own and it is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. There is no longer just me, but him now also, and I need to take care to remind myself of that sometimes and work at not pushing him away. I need to admit my vulnerabilities and anchor them rather than building up defence upon defence. I am not a battleground and he shouldn't have to fight to find me in the middle of it.
Having also recently fallen off the blogging circuit, due to university work surmounting rapidly and my lips having been brushed against those of deadlines, I can now once again pour my energy back into something that I am passionate about. Of other passions, I can speak of the becoming of my love for my course and finally the work I am creating amongst it all. I have thus far this academic year been in receipt of good grades and recognition, a far cry from first year when I could only blindly see my failings, and I am now quite content. My most recent completed humble body of work has even been taken up upon by a magazine or two and I am over-the-moon at the thought of being officially published.
So as you can read, between these lines, there is both the good and the not so. I have taken up on some opportunities and frivolously wasted others but most importantly, with each decision I take, I am learning and that is the thing I want to absorb most.
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