Life

The Basement

It was really never anything special. The walls were plain and white with cobwebs in many of the corners; a thin grey carpet on the…

Father

My parents’ eyes were always on me while I was growing up. I mean what do you expect, I’m an only child. I’m not saying this as a bad thing because I am blessed to have the caring and loving parents I do. They are easily the most important people in my life. With that being said sorry Mum, if you happen to be…

The Season I Found a Reason

Throughout life I had always been an avid sports player and a fierce competitor but during 7th and 8th grade…

My Career

A man lays on a table in small room, bright lights bounce dully off the tube that comes out of his mouth. Nothing is heard but the blip of his pulse and the wheezy exhalation that comes from the breathing machine next to him. Scalpel, forceps, hacksaw…. a malignant tumor is being removed.

Music: the story of music in my Life

Ghetto Martyr

Of the 19 years of schooling that I have had, I have never learned more valuable lessons than the ones I learnt from the ghetto martyrs that I have met throughout my life. A ghetto martyr is a person that has lived in a lower socio-economic area that is plagued with crime, these individuals have been…

Real Friends

We know and meet thousands of people in our lives. Some people just pass through. Some are friends. Some are enemies. Everybody has a…

Lifelines

As a child of divorce, you go through many different phases. First, the blissful ignorance that you only understand as a child to a situation far beyond your mind’s capacity — you parents are splitting up and there’s nothing you can do about it. The second, the blame phase. “Is it my fault they don’t love…

My Best Friend

Alexis and I have been through a lot. This is the origin story.