To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

Word has traveled quickly that just because you’re on island doesn’t mean you have to be stranded—as long as you have cash.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I’m paying attention to what I have rather than what’s missing.

I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can’t believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but...

There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

Don’t let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.

Time doesn’t age you; experience does.

I never get used to the faces–wide-eyed and full of possibility–staring bad at me.

I’m learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

There’s nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think–and more often than not, to think too much.

Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward?

There’s nothing like an orgasm to make a person think–and more often than not, to think too much.

I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.

Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about his feet being sore.

Rationalization is foreplay with one’s conscience.