Change trip

What can change in two months? Your hair gets longer, your beard grows. Your mind expands, just as the number of friends on your Facebook profile. Your photo collection gets bigger, and so does your tummy. Bags under your eyes show everyone you haven’t slept well, yet your smile says “fuck it, I had fun.”…

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Looking for happiness

Sometimes I feel like a coughing smoker. I know, consciously or subconsciously, that I’m fucking myself up by thinking negative shit, as if those thoughts were the dark smoke of a cigar burning down my throat and blackening my lunges. Whether is nicotine addiction or the tendency of looking into the bad moments of the…

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Sex/Life 41

Here I am, walking back home, alone. It’s Sunday, 11:49 PM. I am too sober to say I’m drunk, too drunk to say I’m tipsy. And I feel sad. Across the Atlantic and the North Sea, she’s still sleeping in the bed that three weeks ago we still shared. Alone. It’s been a complicated year….

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Why me?

There comes a time when you just say “this is it.” You break up with your girlfriend or boyfriend, quit your job, stop smoking or decide to leave behind your unhealthy habits and start working out. Yeah, I’ve been in most of those scenarios. But this one time, the “this is it” came together with…

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