Category: Personal Talks

This is where I talk from a more personal perspective about things like mental health and life experiences.

It’s okay for you to feel stress and worry about Covid-19

It's perhaps one of the most common cliches of the new woke era: "it's okay to not be okay". But for every celebrity, politician and Facebook friend who's shared and reshared inspirational images and quotes during the various different mental health awareness weeks, how many of them actually believe it? The coronavirus pandemic is unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. People continue to try and compare it to other historical events, or use points in history as benchmarks against which Continue reading [...]

A Reflection on Brexit and the Last Three Years

After 47 years of membership and almost four years of political wrangling and turmoil, the United Kingdom has left the European Union (sort of). As soon as Parliament gave the green light to hold a General Election before Christmas, I knew that the 31st January would be immortalised as the day our EU membership ended.

After 47 years of membership and almost four years of political wrangling and turmoil, the United Kingdom has left the European Union (sort of). As soon as Parliament gave the green light to hold a General Election before Christmas, I knew that the 31st January would be immortalised as the day our EU membership ended. Continue reading [...]

For the first time in my life, I’m conflicted about who to vote for

I can no longer claim to be comfortable with “wasting my vote” on a candidate who has no chance in hell of winning, simply because it’s the candidate I prefer.

I can no longer claim to be comfortable with "wasting my vote" on a candidate who has no chance in hell of winning, simply because it's the candidate I prefer. Continue reading [...]

Confessions of a vehicular hypercondriac

I love driving. I love cars. Although I’ve only been driving for five years and own a Citroen DS4 (not exactly the symbol of the modern petrol head), I love nothing more than buckling up and setting off on the open road. But since having my first car go wrong on the first properly long drive I went on, I appear to have developed a condition suitably described by the Urban Dictionary, as vehicular hypercondria.

I wouldn’t normally reference the Urban Dictionary, but for the purposes of this Continue reading [...]

What does it take to be successful?

At the time of writing this, I'm 26 years old. I work in marketing for a globally successful business; I have two degrees; I drive what I think to be a nice car; I live in a nice apartment, and I'm engaged to the love of my life and my best friend. But are these things the constitute success? I often spend far too much time scrolling through my social media feeds, reading posts and looking at pictures that my friends post, thinking to myself "God, why am I not that successful?" I have friends from Continue reading [...]