An Unexpected Era

For the first time in the history of me being alive, I don’t have any destinations scheduled on my roadmap. From attending / completing various facets of education, to getting a job or Best Manning my father’s wedding, there’s always been something going on or coming up in my life that I’ve had marked on my mental roadmap. But now all that’s left ahead of me are goals that have yet to form into anything tangible.

This isn’t particularly a positive or a negative thing, it’s just something that’s taken me completely off-guard. This is probably what I would have felt after graduating, if I’d already had a job at that point. But now I have two jobs that I’m comfortable in, a stable income that keeps me afloat and gives me some breathing space (if I’m sensible), and no obligations to meet in my free time. There’s nothing but open road ahead of me, and whilst I should probably get to work on moving out before I can fully claim mastery of independence in my own life, that’s currently a vague enough determination to be sitting in the ‘goals’ category of my future.

I don’t quite know what this means for me as a person yet. This could either be an era of me working towards writing and personal goals in life, or falling into a rut. I’m going to try as hard as I can to make it the former. All I know is that I don’t have any excuses left – any upcoming events or necessities to focus on beforehand – to hide behind. It’s a weird feeling.

A New Home for My Fiction

Despite my recent lack of production, I do label myself a writer of fictional works. It’s something we’ve been over recently. And I’ve spent my day today creating a website to host my short stories, rather than relying on social media websites that don’t have very good writing tools or reading spaces. You can find my new creative hub at krichmondstories.wordpress.com! It’s fully operational, though there are certain things – such as images – that I need to create or finalise, which I don’t have time to do before I go to work.

Not only that, but I’ve written my first short story in a long time. Not only that, but for the first time in an even longer time I’ve actually released it. Displaced is available to read here. I hope you enjoy it!

Please Vote Tomorrow

Voting doesn’t feel satisfying. When you walk over to the nearest polling station, show them your card, and put a little mark in that box, it’s hard to feel like you’ve contributed anything to society. However, in 2015, statistics show that the majority of young people failed to vote, despite the fact that the majority of young people who did vote voted for the losing party. This was not a landslide victory for the Tories. This was an election shaped entirely by voter turnout.

These polls are the one time in your life that you as a citizen of this country will have any say in the decisions that shape your future. No matter who you’re voting for, do everyone a favour and make your voice heard so that we can live in a country where the representations of what people truly desire can be acted on.