Steady, reaching, bewildered.
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Analytical, extreme and playful.
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Glass half full.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
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Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
“Oh, she giggled, didn’t she?”
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
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