Itself Towards The Heights

Itself Towards The Heights is my blog where I write without restriction on any topic that interests me, mainly in essay form: My beliefs, experiences, ideas I want to explore, and any other topic that interests me.

  • Thursdays

    Thursdays

    This post was originally published to a now-archived version of this blog. I’ve had insomnia my whole life. As a child, I was placed on ADHD medicine, which had the unfortunate side effect of keeping me awake throughout a significant portion of the night, so that I regularly was lucky to get a mere 4-5…

  • Happiness, From The Mountains

    Happiness, From The Mountains

    This post was originally published to a now-archived version of this blog. I don’t really know what “happy” is. My entire life I’ve felt a sense of purpose; at times merely the drive to do something, and to do it with everything I’ve got. At other times, that purpose has been much more clear: When…

  • The Struggle Itself Towards The Heights

    The Struggle Itself Towards The Heights

    This post was originally published to a now-archived version of this blog. My bookshelves are filled with stacks of journals cataloguing my inner thoughts—sometimes with brutal honesty—through the best and worst moments of my life. At times the writing is near-incoherent. At others, every word has been carefully and methodically placed to spell out an…