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Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Reeds driftin' on by you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
Blossom in the tree you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when the day is done
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
- Feeling Good, Muse
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June 3, 2022: I’m so #scatterbrained, useless, & #ashamed today. This latest major #depressive episode has meant my monkey mind has been working #overtime to hurtle insults at myself over the last week.
The #selfloathing has been strong.
I’ve slept in day after day. It has been an absolute struggle just to get the simplest of things completed. My third #arthistory assignment is now three days late, meaning a 25% automatic reduction. I’ll never change.
I’ve had some horrible #screaming matches with my Mum.
A woman at @londondrugs positively commented on my heart shaped #bumblebeejasper #pendant & I looked right through her as I passed by. But it wasn’t devoid of emotion, I felt so angry about how the #pharmacists said it would be 20 minutes for my Mum’s #insulin but it had been almost an hour when they needed, “Just a few more minutes.” But as I stepped back a huge line had formed, meaning just a few more minutes was now easily another half hour. So I left, & that’s when the woman complimented me, leaving me to just bite my tongue.
After weighing in at 213.4 pounds on Tuesday, today I’m at 216.4. “Shove another cookie down your mouth again Steve!” my mind barks at me.
I’ve been #hyperaware about how a friend of over twenty years, & another of over seventeen have both #ghosted me. I feel the #confusion, #hurt, & #betrayal mixed in with the overwhelming desire or just wanting to know what I did to push them away. My mind just automatically puts the blame on me.
I also noticed how a few new friends I’ve made over the past year blocked me this week, & I don’t know why. My monkey mind screams at me about how I must be some really #creepy guy to keep pushing people away, & I feel more #depressed because of it.
A business I adore unfollowed me. I am such a #screwup. Maybe my latest #selfies have finally revealed the truth about the monster I really am.
Part of the past few months has involved my emerging from these kinds of #debilitating moments by reframing how I look at myself: I got up earlier today than yesterday. I can get a doctor’s note. My weight will fluctuate. I am not other people’s thoughts.
I can do this.
154/365.
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this one's another rain soaked image...uploaded as an alternative to my first picture today...looks like even more extreme weather.....
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Think twice before saying this stuff.
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My latest short film, Letters to Lost Lovers: Second Chapter, is the sequel to an ongoing series about breakups, moving on, and starting over.
Based on the true stories of the last time people spoke to those that they loved.
Read about the making of Letters to Lost Lovers: Second Chapter.
Watch the second chapter here. Watch the first chapter here.
I was too lazy and in a hurry to take photos of something else other than the books that were laying around in my room, so here you go!
I don't know why most of my recent uploads are photos with dark or black background, so don't ask me, cause I don't even know the answer LOL
June 2, 2022: I’m feeling a lot of #anxiety this morning because I slept in, again. For like. I dunno. The fifth day in a row too.
I try to #breathe in deeply through my nose, to help calm my racing #heartbeat, but it’s #halfhearted & I find my mind is too tired to even #lambaste myself for it.
I hold my breath for a moment as my hand reaches for the #remote that controls the small Dyson fan sitting near the room’s only window, one that’s been slightly open for so many months now.
I breathe out through my #mouth, as I fumble with the small remote & eventually find the button that turns it off. I press it, & the fan comes to a stop. The sudden silence highlights my #loneliness & a headache that numbs the present moment.
I breathe in, through my nose again, while stretching my arms & legs out. The silence is broken by the crickackle of the remote landing inside the cave that is my nightstand’s open drawer, as my outstretched hand lets it fall.
I breathe out to have it turn into a chest filling yawn, complete with the quivering of my upper lip. I hold my left leg mid air for a moment, trying to stop a Charlie-horse from forming. I extend my foot as far as it will go & I feel the muscles in my leg fighting to remain relaxed, as I also hold onto the desire to vocalize my agony.
I breathe in as my legs fall back down into the sheets & I turn my body onto my side as I breathe out. I pull Kira close, hugging her tightly & she tolerates it just long enough to capture this selfie. She then flops back onto the softest blanket next to me, & I pass out too, my phone falling from my hand, ending up somewhere next to me until it’s alarm wakes me around 8:00am. 3 hours wasted.
I need to sneak away to catchup with my art history. But I have so much to do here as well. Maybe I can do an hours worth of work & then sneak away. I’m going to lose 15% on my late assignment now, thanks to my fucking depression. That knowledge terrifies me. It makes me feel #guilty, #stupid & #ashamed. I can see the reddish orange highlight through a C+ grade on the rubric she uses to mark the work, indicating a slip from the A I got a week before. That knowledge paralyzes me.
153/365.
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From October 3, 2022: Tonight, I lit several #candles in my bathroom before I dimmed the lights and drew a #hot #bath and let my #naked #body sink into it. I lay in the stillness of the green foamy water around me. My face, along with a bit of my @Vicks_US #Vaporub covered chest, as well as my knees being the only parts of me that weren’t submerged. The hum of the bathroom’s #dehumidifier #fan was muffled by the water that my ears were surrounded by. Being under the water, even the sound of my #breath was amplified by the water in the tub. The smell of bath salts mixed with the vaporub and soothed incessant coughing that’s plagued me over the past few days. The only thing that kept me awake was the holding of my iPhone in my left hand. At first, I used it to shoot this photo, before finding some soothing meditation music on YouTube that I put on before putting my phone down on part of the ledge that formed the rim of the tub I was in.
It’s difficult when you’re sick to remember to take these photos, let alone think deeply and write reflections about them. Often, I simply snapped the photos, and then wrote about them later - which I’m doing right now, on October 11, for a photo I shot ob October 3. It feels like I’m falling into that old trap of starting something and not finishing it. But what can you finish on days when you’re barely awake, fighting a headache with a fever, congestion, an upset stomach and horrible diarrhea? Hardly anything. So, to be honest, just shooting the photos was enough for me.
276/365.
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I went out in the world today, only for a little bit.
It felt weird
It felt like I was living in a different country.
I know I live in a bubble.
I live in the Northeast.
I live in a blue state.
I live in a multi-cultural community that celebrates our diversity.
I looked around today and felt that this didn't feel like my country.
I visited a place that makes me smile today - the GFS.
I walked around and saw the diversity of the community, it made me smile and cry at the same time.
Im praying for us.
* as the year is closely coming 2 an end, it's a heavenly new beginning & i'm blessed by each of U...here's 1 of my fav tunes...that speaks 4 me...
^i^
* Starting Over * ~ by John Lennon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJ2AoEwDvY
Our life together is so precious together
We have grown, we have grown
Although our love is still special
Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere alone
It's been too long since we took the time
No-one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly
But when I see you darling
It's like we both are falling in love again
It'll be just like starting over, starting over
Everyday we used to make it love
Why can't we be making love nice and easy
It's time to spread our wings and fly
Don't let another day go by my love
It'll be just like starting over, starting over
Why don't we take off alone
Take a trip somewhere far, far away
We'll be together all alone again
Like we used to in the early days
Well, well, well darling
It's been too long since we took the time
No-one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly
But when I see you darling
It's like we both are falling in love again
It'll be just like starting over, starting over
Our life together is so precious together
We have grown, we have grown
Although our love is still special
Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere
Starting over
From October 2, 2022: I’ve just #showered, and I’m lying in #bed, trying to #rest. I’m #exhausted, even though I look oddly #peaceful in the photos I just snapped. A short book, THE MINDFUL WRITER, by Dinty W. Moore, lies beside me along with a rainbow @squishmallows that looks as #defeated, staring up blankly at the ceiling, as I feel on my third day of being really #sick. I think I’ve tried a dozen times to start it, but I fail every time to get past the third page because I just can’t concentrate.
I’m trying to focus in on my breath, but it’s difficult as I keep coughing. Not even the extra strength Halls cough candy is doing anything to give me even the smallest bit of relief from the coughing. It’s warm menthol smell floats through my mouth and nose, but in-spite of this I find that when I try to breathe in, through my nose, I cough. And when I try to hold my breath inside my lungs, I hack. And when I try to breathe out through my mouth, I choke. It’s a process that repeats itself, and to be honest, it’s disconnecting me from being able to find relaxation in the present moment as I find myself getting angry with myself for being physically sick.
I go to the kitchen to make a cup of Neocotrin, and maybe I’ll make a second cup of tea. I don’t know yet. My halls is getting smaller and soon my teeth are able to crush what’s left and I feel it’s slivers across my tongue which soon disappear from the steady sucking I’ve employed on its destruction. When my allergies used to be bad, I’d live on Halls as a means of providing relief from the congestion and constant sneezing that would take over in those moments, for hours at a time.
As soon as the boiling water hits the neocotrin crystals, the smell of lemon wafts up from the cup to float up into my nostrils, where they are gently sucked into my lungs. It’s calming, and needed, even though the drink is too hot to enjoy right away, I find myself starting to sweat again, and I don’t know what the rest of the night will bring.
#275/365.
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After a very long hiatus from Flickr, I'm finally coming back! My sad little Sony Cybershot broke about a year ago, and I've finally been able to replace it with one of those DSLRs I've been drooling over for years, a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS. Now it's time for me to learn how to do this stuff right!
I've been poking around my old Flickr groups for a bit and am feeling a little lost, so if you have any good recommendations you'd like to share, I'd love to hear them!
From June 9, 2022
To my #MonkeyMind,
I wanted to share with you how I feel about our #relationship, because how it’s been going isn’t working for me anymore. Even though you make it impossible to do sometimes, deep down I do #care about myself and I feel you do too. So that’s why I need you to understand that when you #criticize me, it hurts so much. Especially when your #nagging thoughts turn towards self hatred and self loathing.
I wanted to share with you that when you criticize me, it hurts.
When you say “Why do you even bother trying, you’ll just fuck it up like you always do!” it eats away at my #confidence.
When you say “Steve, you’re a fucking loser!” it feels like a #slap to the face.
When you #scream “I hate myself so much!” it tears at the very fibre of my being.
I’m tired of feeling the dread inside my mind that’s accelerated by you whenever I do something wrong, like sleeping in too late or not finishing something on time.
I’m tired of you encouraging me to eat away my sorrows by #devouring the absolute worst foods I can find.
I’m tired of you egging me on, to the point where I start hitting myself whenever I get really frustrated with something.
And when you see my prescription pill bottle in my hand, even though you say nothing, I want you to know how I feel you wanting to see me down the entire bottle like they were M&M candies. That hurts most of all.
So I’m going to tell you to #STOP whenever you start in on me negatively. I’m going to tell you to be kinder and gentler with me every time you want to bring me down.
We would never say or do these awful kinds of things with others - we cherish and care for others deeply and it’s time to give that same care to ourselves. I know that if we can do that we will take one step towards living a longer and more fulfilling life.
Love,
Steven
160/365.
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This is my theme for my life in 2013. I need to be remade, to be restored, to be regenerated into the likeness of Messiah.
Statue of Liberty - New York City, May 1, 2010. The statue, a gift from the country of France to the United States and dedicated in 1886, was built buy Gustave Eiffel, whose company went on to build the Eiffel Tower in Paris three years later.
June 1, 2022: Hello June. I’m here again, trying to pickup my #subverted #selfie project following the #beyourownbeloved challenge from February. I stalled with that but tried again in May, only making it to May 4, just 1 day longer than I had back in February. On May 5 I had a #breakdown which flatlined my #creativity for the rest of the month as I focused on my #university work: stuff for a course on Creativity & Leadership from the spring; followed by work for an Art History of Graffiti course I’m doing right now.
The theme for the 1st day of the BE YOUR OWN BELOVED challenge centred on taking a first step, but this week the fog of my #depression has socked back into my life. It hurts. I feel the stress clenching my heart, making each #beat tinge with an electric shock. My breathing is #laboured as my mind falls in & out of moments of overwhelm. Yesterday, I managed to make my #bed for the 1st time in months. The smell of clean sheets is comforting.
This morning, I ended up texting with a woman from an online depression group I’m in. She’s going through a rough time, & I talk about monkey mind & quote Natalie Goldberg, Jon-Kabat Zinn. I remind her that she’s not other peoples thoughts of herself. I describe using breath-work to reconnect with the present moment, & journaling to expel negative thoughts. Things I should be doing.
My legs are still beat up. I can feel the pain of a fresh scar as my bare leg runs along the sheets, a scar from a deep scratch that I’m not sure how I got. My feet are dry from running the fan in my room. My tattoo peaks out from the sheets it’s laying on & I wonder what might happen to it should it ever get deeply scratched. Would it be ruined forever?
I end up listening to a March 21, 2021 talk with Natalie Goldberg, where she recalls how her Zen teacher, Katagiri Roshi once said to her about responding to the throws of depression: “…get up & brush your teeth…. Make positive effort for the good… brush your teeth… wash the dishes. Just assert yourself. Make positive effort for the good.”
So just for today, I’ll try just that. To make positive effort for the good.
152/365.
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July 1, 2022: This is going to mark my fourth attempt at getting through this #beyourownbeloved #challenge. I don’t want to beat myself up again after only making it only three days in back in March, four days in May and eleven days in June. I got bogged down with finishing my condensed #ArtHistory of Urban, #Graffiti and #StreetArt course I took. I actually finished the course, but only with a B-. The new #antidepressant and #antianxiety #medication I’m on just knocks me out so much. Even when I stopped the #anxiety medication for a week I was still out of it, and had troubles finishing my final project: I needed more time but had none, and I failed the final project as a result. Which sucks as I was sitting at an A/A+ heading into the final project. I’m still going to finish it though, as my project focussed on #MentalHealth and #depression, a conversation I think is so important to have.
I’ve talked a lot about my battle with depression. It feeds my bad eating habits. Even right now as I write this, I want to go to this nearby #cafe and gorge myself on a cinnamon sugar brioche, a chocolate chip cookie, and a large hot chocolate. But I’m not going to do that as I’ve been fasting for 24 hours, drinking just water in preparation for my first hydrocolonic therapy session at @inner.garden.health. I thought my first session was last week, and I had faster then as well, which I don’t regret. The last two weeks I’ve been more #mindful of what I consume.
So, again I start another day wanting to feel more #positive about myself. I want to #raise my #vibration. I want to breathe in being alive. I’m not going to dwell on how many times I’ve said this in the past. It’s time to just let it 🐝.
This post was originally posted to Instagram.
182/365.
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GOOD BYE 2008!
I’d like to thank you for being such a learning experience for me, but overall you were a sucky year!!
I see big things for me in 2009. I can feel it. I always make resolutions on New Years Eve, but I’m pretty sure I started my resolution ideas way back in October. What can I say? I guess I was ready and anxious to move on.
New years give a push, an extra oomph to better yourself and your life. How could the extra motivation ever be a bad thing? I think the “bad” comes in the fact that people even need a new year to motivate them. Why can’t we motivate ourselves everyday?
I’ve been reflecting a lot on human lifestyle and it’s funny how almost all of us can relate in this area. We go day to day through the same routines, we lose ourselves, we get sucked into this lifestyle that we become comfortable with. But all this makes us avoid trying new things or even doing things we’ve always dreamed of doing. We avoid change, because it throws us out of our comfortable state. We also have a difficult time differentiating between what we want to do for ourselves and what others or society thinks we should do in order to be "successful". I'll consider myself Successful when I've accomplished everything I want to do in life.
It’s so important to take the time to do what YOU WANT TO DO. Life goes by so fast, and I don’t want to regret the things I never did.
So for this year’s resolution, I hope to never use the excuse “ I can’t. I wish I could, but I just don’t have the time…”
Make it happen, Libby. Make it happen.
Credit: room by shudder-stock @ deviant art
March 3, 2022: Cleaning up and organizing my place and my Mom’s has been overwhelming at times. A large part of the mess that surrounds me has been fed by my addiction to over-spending, often beyond my means. It’s something I know I need to work on more seriously. It’s not that I can’t be responsible with my spending: when I was younger I was very obsessive with tracking every cent: I kept track of my receipts and spending in an excel workbook, and made sure I balanced out each month. I’d put a percentage of my each paycheque into a savings account, one that was locked down tight so the only way I could move money from it was to actually phone my bank and had it transferred out of the account. I was also Director of Finance at my university’s student union, where I assisted in overseeing a forensic audit conducted by PWC.
But since my depression settled in deeply over the last few years, I found myself digging myself in deeper and deeper with the spending. It’s just been so easy to do when you’re lying in bed, wanting to erase my troubles, my sorrows. Other people drink and do drugs. I eat way too much junk food, and spend like a drunken sailor. It’s caused
So today I emerge from the myst, finishing a deep clean of my Mother’s living room.
I’m finding more and more, that the comfort zones in this project and in my life have been to stick to the routines I’ve become accustomed to. That feel safe. Eating a bag of Reese’s and a large popcorn feels safe. Buying another stuffed animal I don’t really have space for feels safe. Cleaning feels scary because it’s a path to something in life I don’t remember. But it feels more freeing than being stuck where I have been up to this point. I want to say I’ve experienced something like this before, but I haven’t.
62/365.
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My niece dressed to match color palettes with the U-Haul. Or it could be a slightly longer story that is, for the most part, explained here.