Tilda Colling
Bio
she/her + yorta yorta woman
Hi, I'm an 19 year old uni student, navigating the world and stuck in writing everything I see, hear or feel. Hoping to give people a new perspective, or new ideas about my experiences.
Stories (6/0)
Why Your Male Friends have Crushes on You.
"Do I know her?" I ask, half-joking, hopping for a piece of gossip to make my boring day a little less so. "Actually you know her very, very well." My friend says, his eyes trying to catch mine in some meaningful way to pass the unspoken words.
By Tilda Collingabout a year ago in Humans
How Facing my Fears led to Rediscovering my Love
If you had to ask my biggest fear, the crazed, true crime obsessed fourteen year old within me would say talking to strangers. I think she would drop dead upon hearing that I agreed to go hiking for five days, in the middle of nowhere, in a group of people whom most of them I had never met, and the one I had met, invited me on the trip ten minutes after meeting him.
By Tilda Colling2 years ago in Wander
The Adult Scout
In the eighteen years I have had on this earth, more than half of them have been spent as a scout. To be quite frank I think being a scout is something that I will carry with me for the rest of my life, even if they get sick of me and kick me out. Scouting has been the most exciting, adventurous, supportive, caring and challenging part of my life for the last ten years, and I hope it continues to be for the next ten aswell. Scouts has taken me across the country, taught me skills I never imagined I would learn, given me job oppurtunities, introduced me to the people I now consider to be my best friends and memories that make me smile whenever they visit my brain. However, as is inevitable with age, I have begun to think back to the incredible times I had, and more importantly the people who were propping them up.
By Tilda Colling2 years ago in Wander
This Tik Tok Trend is Harming- Well Everything
Recently I caved and re-downloaded tik-tok, after deleting it to focus on my mental health. One of the first things I saw was a 'shopping haul' video, a popular genre of videos within the app. It didn't interest me so I was just about to scroll past, not thinking twice until two things caught my eye. The first being that it was a $2000 doller 'haul'. The second being that the video had gotten over 120 thousand likes. On the surface this doesn't seem too bad, I follow a general sentiment of 'it's your money, spend it however you like', but as I looked into it I realised this trend is more than damaging. The amount of money spent on Shein hauls within this trend was on average over five-hundred dollers per haul. These videos, each getting approximately over 100 thousand likes, were clearly being encouraged and promoted within tiktok, many people liking and not thinking twice about the utterly damaging effects these videos can have on the fashion industry, labour industry, younger audiences, and the environment.
By Tilda Colling2 years ago in Styled
- Top Story - February 2022
My Mother’s Daughter Top Story - February 2022
Being my mother’s daughter is a fate that I have inevitably been enveloped by. The harsh bitterness of the realisation that I was not only kin to my mother, but a reflection of a stepping stone in her life. I am my mother’s daughter and this thought torments my soul, and destroys my past self. I had spent years trying to run away from the legacy left by my mother only to find myself staring at her in the mirror.
By Tilda Colling2 years ago in Confessions
