“Sunny days, oh where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong” – Fran Healy. I couldn’t quite believe it this week when somehow through my Facebook or Twitter feeds, I came across a 20 year old song by Scottish band Travis. The song, Why Does It Always Rain On Me? was released Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Is It Because I Lied When I Was Seventeen?[…]
“Saw a vagabond king wear a xylophone crown. Wondered if I might end up the same” – Jon Bon Jovi. * and yes I know it’s styrofoam, but I prefer xylophone. Don’t dress it up as a dream life and don’t fake the usual excrement that “travel is the best thing ever like mate yeah Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Why Travelling the World Leaves You Nowhere[…]
“Time flies” – Anon. On this exact Sunday evening, 156 weeks ago (3 years ago), I arrived by flight into Gdańsk in Poland. It was just another city on my journey, surely. Nothing special, nothing was about to change. Sunday 3rd July 2016. I had never been to Gdańsk before but it was my fourth time in Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: A Hat-Trick of Years Since My Hat-Trick City Arrival in Gdańsk[…]
“I’m going to clear out my head. I’m going to get myself straight. I know it’s never to late to make a brand new start” – Paul Weller. A few days ago, I re-published the Don’t Stop Living Facebook Page. For good. It has been a huge week of change in my life. Sure, depression Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: I Bought A Bed, It’s A Brand New Start[…]
“Freed from desire. Mind and senses purified, freed from desire” – Gala. So if you clicked this, you will probably (hopefully) be thinking that you want to live a life of freedom. You might want to escape the mundaneness of a 9-5 job, living in the same old city, not seeing the world and life Read more about Live a Life of Freedom: Buy The Paradise Pack and Live a Life of Freedom[…]
“Realise how lonely this is. Self-defeating, oh, fuck, yeah. Drowned in love and false kisses; a gathering of no meaning” – Richey James Edwards. The sparkle has gone. There is no denying it. A serious of events in my life have just given me a three-year and counting crisis. It’s inexplicable, it’s unexplainable, it’s non-explanationistic. Where Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Reality Reflection, A Kaleidoscope of Chaos, It’s A Long, Long Way From Here To There[…]
“I’m too busy raising cane. I’m back on the street again. I’m,,, back on the top again” – Van Morrison. We join fads. We cling to the popular. We need to belong and we need to be like everybody else, we want to be the same as everyone. It’s human nature. Nobody likes to be Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Too Busy Raising Cane? Back On The Street Again. I’m Back On The Top Again! | 10 Year Challenge[…]
“I know the roads on which your life will drive” – Noel Gallagher. OK so this “off the beaten track/eaten bap/wheaten craic” phrase is an over-used, a cliched term I’m not exactly fond of, but there’s not really too many ways to describe what I’m trying to promote here, so we’ll run with it. We’ll roll with Read more about Sunday’s Inspiration: Get Off the Wheaten Craic, Become a Tourist Where There Aren’t Any[…]