Laura Watt
Bio
Just a 25 year old Business English Instructor living in Seoul, South Korea with an insatiable love for writing, music, books, travel and mass media in almost all forms.
Stories (4/0)
Why Being An Adult Sucks Sometimes
Don't get me wrong, being one of these fully-grown-adults can be fairly amazing at times. You get to vote, you get to travel without your parents breathing down your neck, you get to do pretty much anything you want at any time, and you get to drink alcohol (no underage drinking here, please). But there are times when I'll openly admit that I would rather jump into the ol' time machine and go back a decade or so to...simpler times.
By Laura Watt4 years ago in Humans
Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma Book Review
Imagine a refreshing coming-of-age dystopian novel set within very dreary and dull modern-day London, depicting a protagonist living an underwhelming, relatable yet horrific existence, who decides to start her life afresh on another planet. That is the context of Everything You Ever Wanted (EYEW) in one sentence. In words, simply "unassuming yet powerful and prolific". The story is told by a young-ish depressed woman named Iris, a Digital Innovation Architect for a company, who often rolls her eyes when she tells anyone her pretentious job title and laughs at what little significance the words have in the grand-scheme of the Universe. She has a lot of complex modern wants, worries and desires, but above all she wishes her life had a greater fulfilling purpose. Her situation is one that I'm sure many of us are fairly familiar with; she feels her life in the modern world is hopeless, ungratifying, and she craves some kind of deeper satisfaction from her actions. So when the opportunity arises for her to change her state of existence completely, she jumps at it and goes to live on the planet Nyx. For the rest of us, sadly, picking up our roots and starting afresh is much more diificult. The only catch is that when she leaves, she can never return.
By Laura Watt4 years ago in Futurism
How Tik Tok is Taking Over During Covid
So May has swiftly come around and it's fair to say that 2020 has been fairly awful so far. It's been a bitter cocktail made with a measure of environmental disasters with a swig of political uproar, and a double-shot of Covid-19. With all these horrors mounting ever-higher, to what source of comfort or relief can we turn to to help us endure all the anxiety and inconvenience of our "new" daily lives? Tik Tok.
By Laura Watt4 years ago in 01
Love Through Senses
When she smiles, time stands still. A body of water entirely undisturbed by rain or man, hidden in the depths between euphoria and paradise. Delightfully stagnant, yet unsoiled by darkness. Sunshine radiates through her skin, her eyes streaming with endless life and grace. Her eyelids flitter, your nerves unwillingly stand on end- the moment you realise you are completely powerless.
By Laura Watt4 years ago in Humans
