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I’ve recently decided to write short stories after encouragement from friends. Hope you enjoy them!

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Almost Quit – Chapter 9 – Kiss From A Yellow Sun

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When you’re enduring rainy days it’s always important to remember that brighter times are waiting on the horizon. When the sun creeps up on you, it washes away the pain and brings with it change and positivity. I wouldn’t exactly say I was caught up in rainy days, but there were clouds hanging over me waiting to burst. I had managed to fuck up again, albeit unknowingly, and had to once again pick myself up. However, the good times were coming, brighter times if you may, and all I had to do was keep up the fight. When I think back at it, … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 9 – Kiss From A Yellow Sun

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Almost Quit – Chapter 8 – Free Fall

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  To this day I have never been unemployed. The tag of ‘unemployment’ has never been clipped onto me.  I don’t necessarily hoist that in the air like some trophy, nor does it rest on my mantlepiece like some prized possession. No, I just always made a promise to myself that I would never drift into a situation where I didn’t have any form of income flowing in. I didn’t want to be like some of my childhood friends who gave in to a life of quick, illegal, “could land your ass in prison”,  type of money. I never looked down … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 8 – Free Fall

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Almost Quit – Chapter 7 – Bad Decisions

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My weeks on the East coast were amazing. I’ll never forget my first taste of the US and the things my eyes were opened to, both good and bad. Those memories carried me off that British Airways flight from JFK to Heathrow. Those memories carried me for a further three weeks. My future took a back seat while I began to experience freedom after full time education. I was making the leap from 21 to 22. I was making the leap from student on campus to, hopefully, worker in the city. Soon I would have to start thinking about my future. Soon I … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 7 – Bad Decisions

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Almost Quit – Chapter 6 – Happiest Unhappiest Day of My Life

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Graduation is supposed to be the pinnacle of every student’s journey. For me it just served as a reminder of ‘that error’. My parents were elated, however, I was so unbothered about the whole day that I told them to meet me there. Imagine, I made my own way to my graduation and told my parents to meet me there! I really gave no fucks at all, and that sentiment was etched all over my face. I remember arriving  at campus, picking up my gown, then meeting up with my former flatmate and just talking about anything and everything. He introduced me to his … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 6 – Happiest Unhappiest Day of My Life

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Spiteful

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What I say in this blog may come across as arrogant, it may portray me as some sort of asshole, or even a misogynist to a certain degree. However, I assure you I am none of these. I don’t profess to speak the absolute truth, because all of what I say is open for debate and deliberation. I also won’t mention names, and I will keep some events to a minimal and slightly alter to uphold privacy (somewhat). I’ve always reacted badly to being told “you can’t“. And I don’t mean that in some “I achieved my dreams against all … Continue reading Spiteful

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Almost Quit – Chapter 5 – Remember The Day

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I’ve had some weird result days. Picking up my GCSE results 4 hours late because I came back from vacation too late to read the letter my school sent, being teased for not getting my secondary school entry exams only to realise they sent my results a day later than my friends, discovering that I was eligible for a scholarship on A Level results day (the only good moment), and then university results day. By far the worst and most memorable!   As I said, the exam I missed counted towards 100% of the overall module grade, so in a nutshell … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 5 – Remember The Day

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Almost Quit – Chapter 4 – Tears

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I’ve cried on four separate occasions in my adult life; tears of frustration after failing my driving test on the last bend, tears of disappointment after telling my ex girlfriend that I cheated on her, tears full of emotion after finding out one of my relatives was severely ill and the fourth was tears after finding out my initial university grades, but more on that later in this chapter. In short, I am not afraid to admit that I’ve cried.   The email I sent to the university board contained all that I felt. My accountability, my distress, my disappointment, pretty … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 4 – Tears

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Almost Quit – Chapter 3 – What Are The Odds?

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You often get odds thrown in your face now and again. Did you know that the chance of being struck by lightning is one in three million? Or did you know the chance of winning the lottery is one in fourteen million? I wonder if there are odds for my mistake? It hit me almost immediately what happened. I made a typo in my exam search. Usually a typo triggers error messages, but on this occasion my module code typo happened to actually be a real and existing module! SERIOUSLY WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?! Have you ever seen … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 3 – What Are The Odds?

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Almost Quit – Chapter 2 – The Error

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– The Error Everybody makes mistakes. Some you can recover from, whereas others leave scars that serve as constant reminders of what you did, or in my case, didn’t do. As a student, you’re cursed with the proclivity to make mistakes, but with every passing year you grow and in turn (should) make less of them. But we’re humans not computers. We aren’t programmed to be without error, nor can we be updated if we’re found to have faults. If The Lord could testify he would tell you that I always had a big error on the horizon. A big … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 2 – The Error

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Almost Quit – Chapter 1 – Corporate Governance, Care & Sustainability

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  Overview  It’s amazing, all those years ago I knew that my innocent, yet earth shattering, mistake would have huge implications on my future. Despite being distraught at the time, I knew that regardless I would always try my best no matter what I was doing. Chapter 1 – Corporate Governance, Care & Sustainability In all my years in education, be it primary, secondary, higher or further, I have never taken to a subject the way I did Corporate Governance, Care and Sustainability. In short it was the study of ethics and morals in Multinational Enterprises. It was the first time … Continue reading Almost Quit – Chapter 1 – Corporate Governance, Care & Sustainability