Tag: existential crisis

Have I Missed the Bus?

'I am still racing against time…But now this race is an existential one.'

A poem on post-operative delirium and the moment that hinges between life and death which reveals the sheer precarity of existence.

When did I grow so much? How did this happen so suddenly? Is sudden the correct word for it?

'To think, one must be alive. To be alive, one must think.'

In this poem, the author navigates his grief after an accident left him paralysed.

An excerpt from Juan Kaius' 'Binge and Nothingness', a book on ‘being’ in the generation of ‘binge’.

Last night, I had decided that today would be different.

To realise that death is inevitable and that the world can and will continue without you is to experience existential shock.