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Science you can sleep to - presented by a dropkick University student, 80kDeep.
I'll keep this brief.
I'm falling behind in my studies, failing courses and wasting funds. Waves of depression and distraction, wash over me, enticing me to isolate myself more and more every day.
Sympathising with Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in crisis situations has overwhelmed me over the years, putting me in a state of developmental immobility. My ambitions of assisting those most affected by climate change and poverty can only be met if I'm able get my mind together and manage my time.
Creation has been my vessel of escapism whenever I've felt the discomfort of completing essential tasks, whether that be: university assignments, personal projects or even getting my drivers license..
Consuming social media, I was deluded into thinking that I could be successful. A word which has different definitions depending on the individual. Is my perception of success that it is the ability to easily maintain material items? Or the attainment of a metric called "followers" which quantifies attention from others, falsely satiating the insatiable desire to be wanted?
To loosely convey a metric of my own definition of success, I wrote this poem and hope that you can look beyond the irony.
Same behaviours, different days.
I’m not going anywhere on this stationary bike.
Accepting normalcy is better than feeling like I need to prove that I’m special.
A dull life, but hopefully not a wasted one.
It's with this reasoning that I've created 80kDeep, a project for the improvement of my mind and habits, that hopefully educates and helps those who've discovered my findings along the way.
If anyone out there's listening and I'm still actively creating, I hope that you too are able to appreciate the realisation that a difficult, though attainable, metric of success is consistency.