How I Created My Website
Creating this website was not just a technical task: it was a personal journey that took patience, frustration, and a quiet sense of determination. For weeks, I carried the idea inside me: to gather my poems, my images, my memories, and all the scattered pieces of my story into one place where they could finally breathe together. But knowing what I wanted and actually building it were two different things. I tried different platforms, struggled on my iPad, lost drafts, fought with layouts, and almost gave up more than once. Still, something inside me kept pushing: a voice saying that my work deserved a home.
I built this website the same way I have rebuilt myself over the years: slowly, imperfectly, but with intention. Each page felt like carving out a small space for a part of my life: the poems written on ships between continents, the photographs from unfamiliar cities, the reflections formed in moments of loneliness or clarity. The more I worked, the more I realised that the site was not just a project for my OCA course. It was a way of gathering all the different versions of myself: the father far from his children, the man rebuilding on the Isle of Man, the traveller with one foot in Greece and one in China, the writer who is still learning how to speak in his own voice.
What made me continue was the feeling that this website could hold my journey, not perfectly, but truthfully. It became a small harbour: a place where my words, images, and identity could finally meet. And now, seeing it complete, I feel something rare: a quiet sense of arrival.
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