3 weeks of stretching with sciatica and how it’s helped me. — A few months ago, I had decided to cancel my gym membership. Why am I spending £20 per month on membership and £30 an hour for a personal trainer, when YouTube is free? For the past three months, I have been using YouTube to lose weight. It started off well…

Benefits of opting in and benefits of opting out of a pension scheme. — One of the main benefits of working a 9–5, is that we get to shove money into a pension pot which is handed to us when we retire. What also happens, is that the company you work for will also add a certain percentage into your pension pot. If you’re…

From grammar to character development, it’s harder than I thought — I’ve decided to write a book. For someone who doesn’t like reading fiction work on Medium, this is crazy to me. But I’ve had such a change of heart lately. Plus, I’ve got such a brilliant storyline (not giving it away). Due to my lack of fiction writing skills, I’ve…

Sorry, how long has this feature been there for? — No background story is needed here, let’s go right into it. I’ve just written two stories and went into the Audience Development section to get my link to subscribe to my emails. You know how it goes, you bang it at the bottom of an article and hope for the…

A dark, yet sacred, moment on the 25th of July. — TRIGGER WARNING: Self-harm, suicide On the 25th of July 2022, I had a very dark evening. It wasn’t due to the blackness of the sky, but due to the darkness in my thoughts. When things tend not to go my way when it comes to relationships, romantic and platonic, I…

“This Medium member has added their story to their list.” — There are so many things to be thankful for on Medium, the fact that we get paid is the most prevalent one for most and it’s the most prevalent one for me. To be honest, the fact that it even exists is the best one. There are small acts of…

Is a serial killer just doing what they’ve been assigned to do? — I believe that we all have a life purpose. Before we are born, our souls are set on a mission that is up to us to figure out how to fulfill. Religion tells us that there is a Heaven and there is a Hell. Those that do well in life…

After ten years, Ev Williams calls it quits as CEO. — Was I first? Please tell me I’m first and there are not already a thousand articles on the same topic, despite being 19 hours late to the news! I just logged onto Facebook to drop my links on daily threads, and I see someone talking about how Ev is stepping…

The ultimate humanitarian question. — My mind is a wandering fortress. Once you start, I’ll end up wherever and it will be next to impossible to navigate back out. Yet again, I’ve ended up asking myself a serious, yet strange question. Probably one of the strangest and most serious questions I’ve asked myself yet. I’ll…