26 February 2008 - "Eugh"

From across the classroom, I can see him staring at me from my peripheral vision and my stomach turns. Why is he staring at me? Why not somebody else? Someone more deserving of his intent gaze? What reason could he possibly have for wanting to look at me in that way?

Had I done something wrong? Something so terrible that this person – who I can only describe to be an odious monster – would feel the need to make my insides squirm uncomfortably.

I could remember quite vividly back to the days when he didn’t even go to our school and that pungent smell that radiated from him didn’t hang ominously over my school building. I could remember when I didn’t have to be scared of where I placed my eyes because nobody in my school had quite the same effect on me as he did. I could remember when I didn’t have selective hearing – a skill which I had developed upon meeting that fiend. Oh, how I long for the days when no-one’s voice could make me taste bile in my mouth.

Before meeting this person, “tolerant” would have been the last thing that I would have ever have described myself as and although he makes me want to throw up, at least I know that should I ever meet another person like him, I will be able to block out my senses screaming at me to run. A silver lining to this grotesque cloud?

4 February 2008 - "Rumours"

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Back onto the blog topic, that being rumours. Only last week, I was on the receiving end of some embarrassing rumours myself but today people maliciously spreading rumours has reduced one of my friends to tears and I have had enough of these silly things.

I do not get the point of them. Why spread something which may or may not be true? Is it really that fun watching someone squirm with embarrassment,  be upset or even cry? What good could possibly come from gossiping with your friends about someone who you might not even talk to? And even if you do talk to them, if they’re your friend, why would you want to do that to them? It’s absolutely disgusting seeing one of my friends cry as a direct result of several people not being able to control their twittering mouths.

You wouldn’t like it if someone spread stories about you around the school. You wouldn’t like it if everywhere you went and everyone you talked to, that story got brought up. You wouldn’t like it knowing that everyone knows about the mistake you made, or if everyone believed something that wasn’t true.

Gossiping and spreading rumours go hand in hand and in the end, they only cause misery. Do you like to gossip? Have you ever spread an un/truthful rumour about someone? And if so, did you regret it? 

31 January 2008 - "FINALLY, I’m back!"

Well, I will apologise for seriously neglecting this site for the past three weeks, I have actually been a lot better for quite a while but have been caught up in life. I totally failed the blogathon challenge but I do pledge to blog at least three times a week in February. Hopefully I’ll blog more than that, like practically every day but a minimum of three times a week ought to be a suitable guideline.

I also plan to start taking more photographs for my photography section because I’m really not happy with the pictures I have up at the minute. I already have a few new pictures to put up, my favourite of which being this one:

Anyway, I think that now that the first month of 2008 is over, I have a pretty good idea of how the rest of the year is going to go. Asides from being really ill twice in January, it has actually been a really good month. I’ve been going out lots and lots and have found myself a lot closer to my friends. How has the first month of your 2008 been?