david hojak growing up

  • … But Now You’re Gone, I Haven’t Figured Out Why

    … But Now You’re Gone, I Haven’t Figured Out Why

    To follow the ultimate failure that became my first, real relationship as a teenager, lesson after lesson followed. Even now, years later, I make observations about happenings of yesteryearTo follow the ultimate failure that became my first, real relationship as a teenager, lesson after lesson followed. Even now, years later,..

  • All the Love Gone Bad…… Turned My World to Black

    All the Love Gone Bad…… Turned My World to Black

    Solitude meant independence in so many ways I hadn’t anticipated. So young, I just got lost in simply moving away from such a broken home, as early as possible. Ultimately, this meant taking on my first relationship entirely by chance, and somewhat out of desperation. Having grown as tired of…

  • We Have a Greed, With Which We Have Agreed

    We Have a Greed, With Which We Have Agreed

    Spring, 2019… Now outcast by friends, betrayed ultimately by a failed marriage & with more limited options than I’d ever before seen… panic-calls started flying from my phone in rapid-fire succession. Mind you, David Hojak was frantic. In the past, there had been instances where health hindered both employment & transportation in…

  • Why Doesn’t Anyone Believe in Loneliness?

    Why Doesn’t Anyone Believe in Loneliness?

    Historically, they’ve said “home is where the heart is”… but when one of those “hearts” is so close to you, and it suddenly stops… in my case, it threw everything I’d ever been “taught” into question, so early on. In hindsight I look at these past instances experientially, considering only what I took from…

  • Looking for the Part of Me That’s Still Alive

    Looking for the Part of Me That’s Still Alive

    I’d just lost my most pivotal parent in life, then gone on to take up drugs as a hobby… all by the age of 15. I was in no mode or mood to wander back out into society as lost & aimless as I was. My motivations back then were to…