Me, Myself & I

A lot of people are making blogs this year, and I decide to do the same, so I have a place to get things off my chest, and share things about my hectic life and what goes on.

My name is Alex Sykes, and I guess you could say I'm a rather unique individual. I'm not your typical teenager/young adult, and I'm proud of who I am. I'm living proof that you should never stereotype people or judge a book by it's cover, this is what I've grown to live by and I think it's made me a much better person. I'm a law student, and yet I have a rather eccentric style compared to other law students. I love classical music, but yet without knowing me you wouldn't have thought it. It's things like these that make me unique.

I have a lot of interests, and I appreciate a lot of the beautiful things in life. I love technology, gaming, food, photography, fashion, and music, just to name a few things. I guess you could say I'm a guy of all things.

Socialising is very important to me, I don't have anywhere near as many friends as I had once upon a time, but I've never been happier than I am with the ones I still have today, and I wouldn't change them for the world.

This is me, I'm happy with the person I've become. My hair is blonde/ginger currently, but I don't know whether I like it or not so I just used that photo because my hair was like that for a few months and it was my favourite out of my recent colours.

I haven't had an easy past, I've been diagnosed with depression and anxiety multiple times, and it has taken me a few years to get to where I am today; where I'm finally starting to feel more optimistic than ever, and feel like I'm actually living my life to the full.

I've accomplished quite a lot already in my short life; I've completed my GCSEs with high grades, gained 4 A Levels A-C, been accepted into University on an LLB, and I passed my driving license just 5 months after my 17th birthday.

2014 is going to be a good year for me, 2013 was when my life changed so much, mostly for the better, but in 2013 I was diagnosed with depression back in April, this was a really hard time for me, and it was a constant struggle for months. The end of the year I admitted myself into rehab because of social problems and mental concerns, I came out a new person, and I have a clear action plan to improve things. One of my notes was to write a blog and use it to get things off my chest, since the build up over the year of keeping things in is what lead to needing professional help.

Anyway, this has probably been quite morbid, but that's an introduction, and I am feeling wonderful nowadays, so a majority of my subsequent posts should be happy and positive. I'll update my blog with pretty much everything that has some relevance to me, and then I can look over this in the future and reminisce what is hopefully going to be an amazing year. So I'll leave it at that for now, ciao!