Do you ever wonder what happened to all those supposedly “smart” children in grade school? The ones who were told that they could accomplish anything because they showed great potential. Who needed to study when you could get all the material easily? Well, I was one of those kids. Why did I need to work…

I always told my friends that I wished I was more artistic. I wished I had the creative ability to do beautiful things. To dance to a beat or sing without going off-key or out of tune. All through school, I envied other students that were able to match colours together effortlessly, how their drawings…

As I sit in the pitch-black darkness of my room, my face illuminated by my laptop screen and the bad romance movie I’m watching, I find myself wondering, when did it get so complicated? It seemed so easy in movies, boy meets girl, boy falls in love, some happenstance that doesn’t allow them to be…