This is the first poem that I wrote for Life’s Little Dramas. I needed a rallying call. Something to change my own way of thinking and...
Category - The Many Fears
I know a lot about small fears and a little about big ones. I’ve never seen war or dealt with terminal disease. My struggles have been much smaller and almost all of them have been in my head. Lots of people have told me that I shouldn’t care about what other people think. I certainly care less than I used to, but I still care. I still want to be liked. Sometimes, I still want my mum. I guess I always will.
Sometimes in life you can be ambushed by a moment of pure terror. Everything seems to be going along swimmingly and then, suddenly, it isn’t...
Telling someone that you love them for the first time can be properly terrifying. Fear of rejection is such a powerful deterrent from doing the big...
Fear of the unknown always tends to strike me when hospitals are involved. Sometimes really simple stuff like your dad buying you chicken can pull...
Early one summer evening we set out to meet our friends at Ikea. We were going to have meatballs and maybe do some shopping. It felt like our...