Colin Cushion

Tag: Personal Essay

  • Short-Term Misery Is Still Misery

    Short-Term Misery Is Still Misery

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    Somewhere between job applications, TikTok Live gifts paying for pints of milk and trying not to rot inside a university halls room, I’ve realised short-term misery is still misery. This is about unemployment, modern exhaustion, loneliness and the uncomfortable difference between surviving and actually living.

  • Just Get Over It, Colin

    Just Get Over It, Colin

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    A trip to Great Yarmouth was supposed to be a few days away with friends and family. Instead, it exposed something far more uncomfortable. Returning to university halls at 33, I found myself confronting loneliness, nostalgia and the difficult gap between feeling connected and feeling known. This isn’t really a story about a seaside town.…