If this is the first post you’re reading, I implore you to start at the beginning.

Willingness wanes without warning. What was once a wonderful world whirled around to take a turn for the worse.
When you’re feeling trapped it’s easy to cry, “woe is me.”
Wrapping ourselves in a blanket of self-pity and self-abuse, the selfless solution sounds suicidal and slow.

Oh how I yearn for yesterday. Like a soft rock song from decades past. It’s when we are together when we feel the most alone. The privacy, the solitude, the places to call home.

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This blog was intended as a collection of short stories. The first 15/16 posts were the original narrative. They started out as lived experience, translated by ways of pen and paper to word document to here.
I have periodically returned to the original posts to edit them. I’m still not sure if I’ve even come close to showing competency at the medium.

As of 5/14/2025, one year and ten days after the first post, I don’t believe I have any more things to say. I sit here now with a stable income and living situation, having processed what I’ve needed to process through these posts.

I’ll leave you with this:
Oftentimes are we, the American public, sold a scam. Whether it’s the nuclear family and the white picket fence, or the work fifty years at one job and retire. This business about self-reliance may be one of the most damaging ideologies to our sense of humanity.

When I was living alone, paying all of my bills, I was highly self-destructive, and not cultivating healthy habits. In fact, by following a doctrine “self-reliance” I isolated myself as much as possible, and built a daycare for my insecurities.

There is no sustainable self-reliance.

I wish I had a solution to offer, or a feelgood cadence about the spirit of unity and togetherness, but I don’t. I’ll leave it there.

If you want to read more of my work, here’s my unreleased book I wrote 9 years ago.

I’m fairly active on Instagram and YouTube

Before the blog I used to do a podcast which can be found on Spotify and iTunes

Thank you for reading this, whether it was one word or the entire thing.
For all of my fellow members of the proletariat: keep your boots on the ground.
All the best,

-Morgan