Recent content by winterswomb

The more you put yourself out there, the more you risk. But August was a grave and I clawed myself out of the comfort of earth so I may be washed by storms and deafened by thunder. I for the first time in years, went looking. I went looking and found not the old me, not the new me, but something...

January, 2025. Wow its been such a long time. So much has changed. I submitted my poetry to a manuscript competition. I was in a play at school (pretty large role!)

Would I like a morgan silver dollar? The TV implores me to contact 1-800-888-7670 to get my very own. Maybe I will!

Still having trouble navigating the site, making longer forums I don't know how to do. Oh well. I'll stick to these annoying one-timers

What a coincidence! I logged on after exactly one year- my last notification is an award for one year anniversary of making this account!

My dream is to publish an anthology of my poetry. However I am too afraid to show the forsaken pages of my notebook to anyone.

1f. I don't want to thrive. I want to survive.

1e. I have come to realize that to thrive in this generation is to lack empathy.

1d. In a classroom setting especially, when you're just trying your best. I don't understand professors these days. Where is the empathy?

1c. Being put on the spot or made to feel stupid for no reason. The uncomfortable air around what just happened, and the embarrassment.

1b.I think what bothers me most about situations like this is the unfairness of it all.

1a. How do you deal with being belittled by your superiors (bosses, professors, etc)? I've just spent an hour sobbing due to this.

I too, think about birds and cry at their freedom. I think about them before bed, in hopes I could at least fly in my dream. But then I don't. And then I wake and must start my day, a lowly vessel just trying to make the best out of a dismal life.