My Rambling Shelves – Page 7 – Thoughts, feelings and sometimes more – original writings by Merel

Who am I

Welcome to My Rambling Shelves – a blog filled with thougths and feelings all wrapped in short stories or free-form poems. Because I mostly write from emotions and through emotions you can expect to find both light and hard-hitting stories on here.

Most of the stories I write are based on true events or experiences I’ve had. To branch out and try to push my writing into the next gear I’ve challenged myself to post either a non-fiction or fiction story every single day in September. You can now read them all below!

Letters to september

All original writings by yours truly

August 9, 2022

My heart is not mine to give

My heart chooses for herself who she lets in and who she keeps out. And even if she lets you in it might not be to that special place you long for. But If she does let you in and you happen to find yourself holding a little piece of her in your hands. Brittle…
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August 7, 2022

Earliest memories

Do you remember the feeling of seeing a hot air balloon for the first time as a child? Or your first experience of stepping on fresh cut grass with bare feet? The first time you drank your now favorite drink and how it tasted to you in that moment? Do you remember the emotions you…
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August 5, 2022

The girl that floats or drowns

She is the girl that doesn’t fit in. She is the girl that’s always judged. She is the girl that’s never understood. She is the girl that’s hunted by demons when left alone. She is the girl that was loved too little, felt left out, hurt too often, cared for too softly. She is the…
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August 4, 2022

A book with blank pages

You finished a chapter that barely even started. Left the pages unwritten but still reaching out. Now that book sits on my shelf, waiting to be picked up again. Collecting dust, but not forgotten. But it will not write itself. When we met for the first time my heart skipped a beat. Not knowing what…
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July 23, 2022

When two souls meet

You know that feeling when you meet someone and you just know they are going te become a big part in your life. You’re not sure in what way but it doesn’t seem to matter because this is a chapter of your life that will write itself. It’s strange how it seems to work, there…
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July 19, 2022

Embrace the night sky

Sitting outside, staring into the abyss of the night sky thinking about everything all at once but hearing nothing at all. Everything around you feeling like the beginning of something new. Something so close you can taste it but it still seems too far away. Not being able to grasp it and it’s driving you…
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July 6, 2022

Turning 30 – is it a big deal?

I never made a big deal of turning 30, and it really isn’t that big of a deal. But what I never expected was the mindset shift I experienced in the run up to my birthday. Getting older – even though 30 is still very young – made me realise a few things. First up,…
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March 17, 2020

Past, Present, Future Spread 12-02-2020

For an unknown reason I decided to grab my tarot card in the evening right before getting ready for bed. I haven’t reached for my tarot cards in a really long time but this night it felt right to just pick them up again. I shuffeld the cards as I would normally do and decided…
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March 9, 2020

A Bilingual Brain

I thought it would be helpful to explain a little detail about where I’m from and my decision to write my blog English. I’m born and raised in the Netherlands. I’m basically as Dutch as you can get. But somehow, everything I do online I do in English. I’ve started several blogs and had a…
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February 27, 2020

When it leaves, I stop

Whenever multiple hectic things are going on in my life I tend to freeze up. My mind just overflows and all I can see are the spikes on the road ahead. I only see the worst case scenarios instead of what good might actually happen. It angers me that I cannot see through the trees…
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This is me

Hi there, I’m Merel and this is my safe place where I write out my feelings and thoughts, and sometimes more. I turn them into short stories or free-form poems. Come take a look around! You never know what you might find.

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