Rock Paper Scissors

Word of the year:

atelophobia noun the fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.

Word of the year:

monachopsis noun the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place. Unable to recognise your intended habitat, never feeling as though you are at home.

but not everyone wants to be set free.

Sometimes, the people who do bad things are just bad people. But there is always a reason why a person behaves the way that they do.

Sometimes, the most innocent-seeming people turn out to be guilty of horrific things.

I too have often felt abandoned by the world.

I tried to make friends, and I succeeded for a while, but I was always on the outer solar system of those childhood relationships.
Like a smaller, quieter planet, distantly orbiting the brighter, more beautiful and popular ones.

I changed schools more than once growing up. I was always the new girl and everyone else had already known each other for years. I didn’t fit – I never do

, so she grabs them both and uses them to clean the toilet bowl.

Nobody knows everything about another person, no matter how long they’ve been together, but if you ever feel like you know too much then something is wrong.