# running away (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover running away. Page: Feed: --- ## [(Letter to my future self)](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/letter-to-my-future-self/) _2026-05-27 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ You are trying to solve life before living it. Not because you’re arrogant. Because you’re perceptive. Your mind keeps trying to arrive at a final philosophy that will protect you from: regret, misalignment, wasted years, wrong love, accidental mediocrity, becoming trapped inside a life that slowly deadens you. So you observe people almost anthropologically: “How are they okay with this?” “How do… ## [Do You Talk to Your Pets?](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2026/03/do-you-talk-to-your-pets/) _2026-03-09 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ Do You Talk to Your Pets? Do you talk to your pets? Or even if you don’t talk to them, do you sometimes imagine yourself having conversations with them? Or perhaps you try to imagine what they’re thinking when they look at you or jump on you? We’ve got two cats, Jack and Meg, and I often imagine myself talking ...read more ## [The Penguin That Walked Toward the Mountains: But Why?](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/new-post/) _2026-01-24 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ There’s a clip from a nature documentary that keeps resurfacing online and, right now it has again taken entire social media by a storm: A single penguin breaks away from its colony and waddles not toward the ocean - where food and survival wait - but inland, toward the mountains. The narrator explains, with detachment, that nothing can be done. The penguin will walk until it dies. The internet… ## [24 lessons I am gifting my 24-year-old-self](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/24-lessons-i-would-like-to-gift-my-24-year-old-selflink-new-post/) _2025-09-03 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ "Turning 24 is closer to 25 and farther from 21. Ughhh! I hate growing up..." Earlier, I used to say it as a joke. But now that I have finally turned 24, I don't feel much of a difference, just a digit changed. Why? Well, because I felt I already grew up when I turned 21, and since then, I have been on a rollercoaster journey of experimenting, failing, being scared, sometimes cocooned in my… ## [Please read the book Almond: A book summary](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/please-read-the-book-almond-a-book-summary/) _2025-08-31 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ Author: Won-pyung Sohn What is the Book About? Almond is the story of Yunjae, a six-year-old boy with a rare mental condition called alexithymia. It makes it impossible for Yunaje to identify and express feelings, like any normal kid could. His underdeveloped amygdala, also known as the almond, is the reason behind his condition. Yunaje's mother and grandmother try their best to teach him to get… ## [What Are Your First Memories?](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2025/08/what-are-your-first-memories/) _2025-08-21 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ What Are Your First Memories? One of my memories is sitting on a beach, thinking it was too hot and I didn’t like sand! How can you write about that? One way is to just pick out those two words, ‘hot’ and ‘sand’ and repeat them. Like this: Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand. Hot ...read more ## [A Running Away Poem](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2025/02/a-running-away-poem/) _2025-02-13 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ A Running Away Poem This is part of a poem or narrative that I’ve written for some Year 11 dance students at a school in Cambridge. They’re going to devise a dance about Oscar and Rachel, who are my father’s uncle and aunt. While you’re reading this, you might want to imagine two people, one Oscar, one Rachel. They are ...read more ## [I have a lot of work to do, and I am running away from it!](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/i-have-a-lot-of-work-to-do-and-i-am-running-away-from-it/) _2024-12-29 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ I know I have a lot of work to do, and I am running away from it! It’s procrastination at pro max levels. Well, why, if you would ask? I think it’s fear and laziness that follows. Sometimes you dream of things and stuff too big that it stops you from even moving a step. It’s like you only like the idea of swimming on the surface but are scared of the deep end. That pretty much sums up my life for… ## [Life rewards action, not intelligence.](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/life-rewards-action-not-intelligence/) _2024-12-26 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ An Epiphany - "Life rewards action, not intelligence." Year-end reflection This year has been a mixed bag of ups and downs. While initially in the year I lacked the courage and mental clarity to do things, pursuing the mundane, in the latter half—I've had the clarity and courage, but lacked action. It’s true when they say—you cannot have everything. Today, a video popped up on my YouTube feed -… ## [‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’…](https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/2024/09/thoughts-rather-than-poems/) _2024-09-12 · markjfoster · Michael Rosen_ ‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’… I’ve done a book called Pebbles (Smokestack Books). It’s made up of what we can call ‘thoughts’ rather than ‘poems’. What I tried to do was grab things that I heard saw remembered imagined and thought about. Each time I came up with something, I just wrote it down, often in ‘lines’ as you find in ...read more ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VoP02cN7Ju5h) _2024-09-12 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [I am taking up a writing challenge!](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/i-am-taking-up-a-writing-challenge/) _2024-08-27 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ So here is the Problem - The problem is that I want to be a writer but I find it difficult to write every day. Some examples of how I know this is a problem are: I have been procrastinating on building a writing portfolio for a year now I have tones of half-baked ideas sitting in random places like my notion, obsidian, diaries, and journals Every time I think that the idea is great, I somehow… ## [We have been dealing with self-doubt the wrong way! (v1)](https://writers-journal.bearblog.dev/we-have-been-dealing-with-self-doubt-the-wrong-way-v1/) _2024-08-23 · writers-journal · Writer's Journal_ Have you ever had a moment of realization, where you felt that you weren't capable? This could have happened anywhere - at work, in a relationship, while pursuing a hobby, or even while taking a quiet walk in the park. The society we live in today is highly mechanical and transactional. Growth is measured by the expansion of the economy rather than the prosperity of people. Let me remind you, in…