Mentalechoes

“People come into your life for either a reason, a season, or a lifetime”.
A friend of mine told me that. It came up because I have a habit of falling out of contact with people, and I will go for long periods of time without reaching out to people that I am close to. So [...]

I often wonder if I doing anything right. I don’t mean individual things like ironing a work shirt, or my tax returns, I’m talking about the whole life thing. I see people that really seem to be inherently better at it than others. By this I mean they seem to make decisions that improve their [...]

I’ve been sitting here in front of the computer after a quiet choof wondering, just what the hell it’s all about. I don’t actually mean life - god that’s just too big right now - I just mean our 30’s. What’s our 30’s actually for?
See, when you’re in childhood it’s for being able to do [...]

A friend of mine dropped by the house and I wanted to show him a particular picture I had taken when I was in India in ‘99. It’s been a long time since I had opened up that album; a really long time, years in fact! Yet when I began leafing through the pages which [...]

I’ve been off work the last couple of days with a hurt back because a superman impression I was doing went a bit wrong. So while I’ve been undergoing couch therapy I’ve been doing some thinking about my living arrangements, or more specifically where I want to live. I’ve been away from home (Australia) now [...]

The events over the last two days have really shown shown me something about myself that I was aware of, but I didn’t openly admit because I was afraid of what that might mean. And that is that I am clinging on to memories of my past and much of the pain associated with it, [...]

So I’ve just finished watching St Elmo’s Fire on divx, something like 18 odd years after seeing it at a friends house on video (which is just soooo 80’s in itself). Back then I was but a wee lad in my late teens and the oh-so grown up lives of the characters in their very [...]

You know I always had this thought when I was younger, in my twenties, that when I was my age now, that my life would be more static, more predictable. I’m not really sure why, perhaps because I thought I would have kids by now to some women in a meaningful relationship. That I would [...]