I've come to realise that I've been really terrible with upkeeping a consistent social media presence these past couple of years, almost to an extent where I believe that it might just not be for me. I adore the prospect of sharing anything and everything online, but the scene has evolved so much that it feels borderline impossible to find motivation to stick around on platforms that are mainstream nowadays. So much so that I've resorted to independent blogging again, something I haven't done properly since I started high school (emphasis on the word properly). I started this blog during my studies back in 2020; we were encouraged to do so ahead of starting the course, and I used it as a means to get back into blogging. However, the approach I took was so overly serious and sort of uncanny that I at one point had to scrap everything and start over.  These posts read very much like a poor attempt at a script for a short YouTube video; they all had an intro, an outro, dir...

Say what you will about 2025, but I've had a pretty good year; by no means was it an easy one, but definitely one that I see myself reminiscing about in the future as being one of the first where everything seemingly started to change for the better. 2025 brought about a lot of change, most of which, looking back, was self-initiated. I found myself actively seeking out a "better tomorrow" more than I had ever before. For most of my adult life I was pretty hard-nosed, in the sense that I would feel the need to persevere through anything and everything, regardless of how challenging it might have been. Naturally, remnants of that mentality remain, however, I feel as though I have been able to instrumentalise that determination in a way that would benefit me more - that is, to use that energy for dealing with any hardships I face when inititating a change in my life, rather than wasting that energy on powering through uncomfortable and compromising settings. One of the bigge...