Category: reflection

• How to Feel Like Yourself

  

  No, you have never felt like yourself before.

  crushball

  July 8, 2022

  creative non fiction, emotions, feelings, hope, lessons, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, values

  adviceandcritic, creativenonfiction, discipline, earlybird, feelings, Feellikeyourself, Howtofeellikeyourself, nonfiction, peace, potential, thoughts

• June: Sausage rolls, Suicide, Suicidal Plants.

  

  Not reporting a theft could save a life, my mental health is no longer killing my plants.

  crushball

  June 24, 2022

  advice, costoflivingcrisis, creative non fiction, diary, hope, judgement, lessons, logic, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, socialmedia, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  alive, bedtimes, BrainTemple, costoflivingcrisis, creativenonfiction, earlystarts, greggs, houseplants, Mentalhealth, mistakenidentity, news, nonfiction, organisation, plants, prison, sausagerolls, suicide, theft, theguardian, thoughtcollections, vibes

• Everyone’s a Critic: The Careless Commentator

  

  If Drake and I and you and that guy over there were all releasing an equal amount of content, we’d all be a little kinder.

  crushball

  June 18, 2022

  creative non fiction, critic, feelings, fomo, judgement, non-fiction, opinion, reflection, reviews, socialmedia, unfiltered, values

  adviceandcritic, critic, drake, fomo, honestlynevermind, judgement, kind, nonfiction, opinion, socialmedia, thought, thoughtful

• Being Tired Can Change Everything

  

  Youtube, good exhaustion, child Q, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe/Annosheh Ashoori

  crushball

  March 17, 2022

  black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, journalism, London, non-fiction, opinion, Racism, reflection, tired, untoldstories, untoldstories, work

  AnooshehAshoori, black, ChildQ, creativenonfiction, feelings, god, hope, London, NazaninZaghariRatcliffe, new, nonfiction, Personal, Racism, reflection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered, youtube

• The Evolution of a January

  

  Wailing about the self-destructive waterlogged first month of the year, and learning how to escape it

  crushball

  January 31, 2022

  acceptance, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, lessons, logic, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  acceptance, creativenonfiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, january, lessons, logic, newyear, nonfiction, opinion, perfection, reflection, resolutions, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

• Stories from the 2021

  

  I’m bloody tired

  crushball

  December 31, 2021

  acceptance, black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, lessons, newyear, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  2021, 2022, acceptance, black, Blackbrits, creativenonfiction, dreams, feelings, god, hope, lessons, life, newyear, newyearsresolutions, nonfiction, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, values

• A week of thoughts #1

  

  It feels awkward, suspicious to be someone of few opinions.

  crushball

  November 8, 2021

  anti-vaxxers, black, blackbritain, blackness, Coronavirus, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, fiction, non-fiction, opinion, passive, personalanechdote, reddit, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, untoldstories, work

  antivaxxers, black, Coronavirus, creativenonfiction, diary, feelings, nature, nonfiction, opinion, Personal, personalanechdote, thoughtcollections, thoughts, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories

• I’m rebranding Crush-ball

  

  Ever so slightly so that it barely matters

  crushball

  November 8, 2021

  blogintroduction, blogintroduction, creative non fiction, emotions, feelings, fiction, journalism, lessons, logic, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories, untoldstories

  blogintroduction, creativenonfiction, diary, journalism, new, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories

• Don’t forget…

  

  My Grandma has Dementia, but somehow that’s done nothing for my own memory.

  crushball

  September 27, 2021

  black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, Dementia, Disease, emotions, family, feelings, god, Grandma, Grandparents, lessons, livingwithgrandparents, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  adviceandcritic, creativenonfiction, Dementia, family, god, Memory, nonfiction, Personal, Promises, Religion, stories, thoughts, Trust

• Black People are Real People

  

  A fully alive, fully outstretched black person taking up as much space as they need is the most frightening black person, so be scary.

  crushball

  August 30, 2021

  advice, black, blackness, ElijahMcClain, feelings, lessons, non-fiction, Racism, reflection, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

  advice, adviceandcritic, black, blackness, creativenonfiction, ElijahMcClain, feelings, institutionalracism, Multifaceted, nonfiction, Personal, Policebrutality, Racism, stories, thoughts, twoyears, unfiltered