Often, I post things on Facebook that get me into trouble. Not any sort of tangible trouble, but they generate misinterpreted concern and worry. Not that I lack gratitude that people out there care about my well-being, but nobody wants people to think you’re not alright when you’re perfectly well (or doing great). In fact,… Continue reading Psychological Knots: Untangling the Harrowing Web of My Past
Author: james
The Success Tree
I was rethinking how I see success and failure. I’ve been learning that I’ve been more afraid of succeeding than I ever have been of failing. I was thinking maybe we can look at failure like a seed. We don’t know what kind of seed it is, but all we have to do to keep… Continue reading The Success Tree
The End of a Dream
My dad had just called me over to his and mom’s place. They must have moved back to Tennessee, because it was in one of those cookie cutter-looking Spring Hill or Thompson Station subdivisions. They were in a white, two-story house basically shaped like a box.I pulled up, the road was long, winding, and endless,… Continue reading The End of a Dream
Video Homeschooling and the Beltway Snipers
If you haven’t known me long enough, you might not know that I homeschooled in 9th and 10th grade. The fact is, I don’t really talk about it because I consider it a dark period in my life in which I suffered from a very similar, though more rudimentary depression and loneliness that I did… Continue reading Video Homeschooling and the Beltway Snipers
The Two Most Important Things I Did to Breakout of Anxiety and Depression
I think that in the past year I became, what I’d define to be, a man. Not to say that before I was a boy, but I was in some sort of flux. I struggled a lot over the past several years with individuality and identity. I still vividly remember the gray feelings, the dreariness, and… Continue reading The Two Most Important Things I Did to Breakout of Anxiety and Depression
Dream Logging: The Exploding Gas Station
The Exploding Gas Station A dream I logged in May of 2008 The dream starts off, as best as I can remember, in a parking garage. I am in the car, it was definitely and initially the Element my parents just got about 2 weeks ago. My dad is driving, and now that I think… Continue reading Dream Logging: The Exploding Gas Station
Why Filmmaking is the Best Hobby an Introvert Can Have
I spent a lot of time in my head this week. Granted, I am, technically, always in my own head, but the mind is a canyon with cavernous depths and crevices that resemble some alien planet, and sometimes my thoughts take me into the deep. That’s what being an extreme introvert can be like. I… Continue reading Why Filmmaking is the Best Hobby an Introvert Can Have