Who am I?
My name is Alex J. Hicks. I live in Halifax, NS, Canada. Poetry has always been a passion of mine, not truly embraced until I graduated from college in 2012. That’s when I started this website.
Interests
I’m deeply interested in current laws and politics around the world. My brother being one of my best friends and being a World History/Political Science major in University helps in that respect. I read many articles about psychology including – of course – introversion and extroversion. I also do a lot of reading about adult ADHD because I was diagnosed with ADHD-C when I was around 14 years old.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot into anxiety and fear of abandonment and how I can help myself work through both. I’ve lost friends because of both of those things and I will be damned if I lose anymore because of them.
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not right and wrong.”
– C. G. Jung
When it comes to psychology I am a big supporter of the Myers-Briggs personality profile and I think it is a great analysis of a persons personality. I’ve taken about a dozen different MBTI personality tests over the past few years and I come up as an INFJ (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging) – the rarest of the 16 personality types.
My Illness
Last year I was diagnosed with Social Phobia and Panic Disorder. With the help of some close friends on the other side of the ocean I am now on medication and seeking the proper mental help that I need in the hopes that one day I will be able to live my life without letting Anxiety and Fear have control over my actions.
My father committed suicide in November of 2014. Although I am still in someways recovering from that loss, I am moving on from it. I am focusing on getting better, and living my life as happy as I can.
“Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of my, squeezing my guts really hard.”
– Juliana Hatfield
Beliefs
I am an Atheist. I do not believe in imaginary beings or magical powers or life after death, or any of that kind of thing.
Into Dawn 
Get a like button dude! Nice site, I hope you just let it flow and do your thing. I can tell you know writing is cathartic. 🙂 If you read my stuff you’ll know when something’s messed up with my meds haha
I just signed up here a few weeks ago, don’t know how to do much on here yet (aside from post). heh heh. Time is the best teacher though so I’ll learn eventually.
I agree completely about writing being cathartic. I wrote a lot of poetry in high school and after some unfortunate and some very fortunate life events, I got inspired to write poetry again. This time I think my motivation is here to stay 😛
Thanks! (first comment!)
Awesome, keep it going. I saw your blog is new, very COOL. You’re right time is the best teacher with wordpress. I’m sure you’ll do just fine. 🙂
Hi Alex, Happy new year to you, and may 2013 be a much better year for you in various ways!
Like Pete, I too would like to click on a “Like” button. Though you mention that “Time is the best teacher”, it seems that time has not done very well by you, as it has been four months since Pete’s exclamatory request. I would also like to strongly recommend that you avoid using capital letters for all the words and letters as they make your writings quite a big strain to read. Thank you.
Since you have kindly shared your interests, music and beliefs with us, I would also like to share mine with you in the same order as follows:
Hello Alex, keep writing and your butterfly tree will bloom 😉
lol I hope so, thanks!
go on buddy… keep writing all the best and cheers!
Thanks! your daily challenges are gonna help me reach my goal of writing a poem every day. 🙂
Wow, I’m happy you liked some of my posts…it made me come and check out your blog! I love the random facts above. We are apparently very similar in certain ways. (I’m so sorry …) Specifically, “creating awkward moments for people I meet for the first time”. I do that too, but not on purpose…more in a head-smacking, what-the-hell-did-I-just-say kind of way. Most of it starts with not knowing what to say, and then, “I’m not smart, I just have a wealth of increasingly useless knowledge about the world around me.” kicks in and I have to throw in some random trivia like ‘did you know barnacles have the biggest penises in the world, in proportion to body size?’ It’s what I do when I get nervous… At any rate, I really like your blog, so thanks for liking my posts and helping me find you!
Ahaha yeah I do that too lol. My friends all say that I’m smart but I keep telling them that I’m not smart, I just have an ever increasing amount of random useless knowledge.
I really like your poetry, it really flows together 😀
I am pleased to meet you, Alex. You have inspired me to tell more about myself…and maybe i will in a future blog.
I look forward to browing through your blog. I love the top foto!
p.s. I think of FB as a snoopsite…where relatives and friends can see what we’re up to. lol 🙂
Thanks! Facebook is definitly a snoop site lol. Luckily my family doesn’t really know how to use it 😛
Thanks for following Alex, you have a nice blog here. Keep it up.
all best,
mei
hiiiiiiiii, you have just been nominated for our bloggy award, hope you love it…:D
Excitement!? Joy!? I don’t know what to say! Thank you! Very Very thank you! Much thank you very!
Sorry, I’m so excited that my words got mixed up there lol.
hahahaha………. wow, I never got so much enthusiasm in my previous give aways…:D, im excited tooooo,
I am one who notices things. For example, I notice that Barrie is halfway between a certain resort and a certain large city. It’s probably unrelated, I’m sure, but I know of a Canadian gentleman who is quite a poet and happens to live in that large city. Also unrelated, I feel confident, is that a lady who is also quite a poet happens to live near that certain resort. I believe that any sort of initial difference might be pasted over via the writing of several centipedes of poetry.
But, I could be wrong. As I said, this might be completely unrelated. Oh, by the way, here are a couple of great poets. Speaking of poets.
http://alexanderhicks.com/about_me/
Thank you very much! 🙂 I’ve never been to Barrie before. I’d love to go though. lol.
Hey there–thanks for following my blog. I read your gravatar profile and am now assuming you plan to jump in and debate every time I mention the word “God.” But . . . I guess there are worse things that could happen. Anyway, I appreciate the follow!
I won’t debate you lol. I only debate with those who desire to debate 😛 a debate without mutual consent is no more than an argument. I respect your right to believe whatever it is you want to believe 🙂
Ahh–thanks. I welcome the occasional debate, actually. It’s just when they’re an all-the-time thing (like they kinda were when I dated an atheist a few years ago) that it gets a little exhausting!
Well, if you want a debate let me know 🙂 Outside of that I won’t bring it up. I’m a strong component of “I don’t really care what you believe in, just don’t force it on others.”
I see. 🙂
Glad to find you,Alex.You have blog with beautiful poems .I enjoyed my visit in your blog,I will be back to look at your archives when I find time :)Have a great day ahead !!!
Nice poems. I do relate to you when you speak about moving back and forth between two places- so have I and it is very hard making friends that way. Good luck to you.