The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman

This is a stumbling attempt to build a website. I had plans to do it from scratch (with some help from some AI) but nonetheless, the one thing I have learned from trying to cut corners when it comes to website building is that you have to go with the flow. I can more into that some other day but for now…

Hi, my name is Justin Pollock and I am writing to you.

This photo above was taken by my best friend Courtney. We met in high school during our first period in Human Geography. There we started a journey of friendly competition and a unvoiced intuitive understanding we had of each other.

I was born in Bryan, Texas in the year 2000. I lived there my whole life up until August 2023, where I moved to Michigan to follow the love my life, Laura, in her personal and educational journey.

That is Laura. We met online… okay, it was Tinder. But we were connected through times of loneliness and fear. It was during those times we found solace in each others arms, without the separation of a facemask or plexiglass window.

We both attended Texas A&M University. Yes, the one that is a cult more or less. There, I met some wonderful people. Going to college in the same town you grew up in can underwhelming. But it is in the philosophy of my life that things have a way of working out. They did and they are still. The blanket of my life however is still full of wrinkles. I wake up everyday trying to shake out some of the wrinkles. A perfectly un-wrinkled blanket is not possible. But why not strive to do so? To flatten out those unsures and insecuities. At Texas A&M I was able to unwrinkle some of myself. A lot actually, with a little help from my friends.

This is my best friend Louis. I have known him ever since freshman year of high school. I met him on our high school gymnastics team. At the time, we were just two nerds who found out we had much in common. Now, we are life-long best friends who can comminicate soley through inside jokes and obscure references alone. He has taught me a lot. I look up to his maturity and composure, and sometimes wonder how the hell he got so smart and witty. We spent about a year living together.