Confident, stressed, greedy.
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View all 120 →Passionate, mum, green.
Trying quite hard.
it’s that grit, that determination, that fortitude, that gets you through what you set out to do.
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View profile →Leafleting for a window company when I was 12. I remember putting them through letterboxes thinking: I’m going to sell drugs, because this is rubbish.
Impulsivity. We end up in strange places, like right now – I am in the Middle East.
Want for your brothers and sisters what you want for yourself.
To my cousin P, who was one of my best mates growing up. We lost him when we were in our 20s and, before he passed away, I was so busy with this stupid thing called life and a brand new kid. He called me and said: “Bro, I’m not feeling right.” And I said: “Bro, you’ve never been feeling right.” And it always sits on my head that if me or somebody else had been paying more attention maybe things would have worked out different. He had extremely rare bowel cancer and died five weeks later at 27.
I bought a BMW 7 series and my best mate said: “I don’t think you should buy this, bro, it’s too cheap.” And I said: “Let’s live the dream” and put my foot down hard on the accelerator and the bottom of the engine and the gearbox blew out.
We’re not really allowed to cry where I’m from. I can only cry in summer, at the height of hay fever.
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