Okay I think this is a serious issue. Fake friends are always out there and…
Dear Loved One,
It’s me, your loved one with Borderline Personality Disorder. At least, I hope you consider me a loved one. See, that’s the problem with my illness. I doubt my relationships almost as much as…
Shall I show you how deeply symbolic is this existence? In November of 2012 I was in Calgary for school. While there I purchased…
Behavioral design in the form of tiny dolls
The night before his enlightenment, Buddha fought a battle with the Demon God Mara. It was an…
Esta semana el libro “El principito” cumple 73 años, casualmente había terminado de leer…
One day in my Brand Management class, my professor brought in a guest speaker to talk to the class…
Although it pains me to admit it, I am a flawed human being.
One of my high school English teachers, Amy Voigt, kindly asked me to participate in an upcoming course lesson for her 9th grade class, with letters written to our younger selves. This was my submission.
It’s coming up on nine years since I first started slinging code in a professional…
Right after I threw the phone away I felt something. It hit me hard. The phone bounced off of the trash in the can and into my nuts. Needless to say it hit them and I was taken out.
Happy Friday! Here are seven of our favorite stories we’ve recently published in Life Learning.
hijab uncovering the truth
Some girl who I’ll just call “F” added me on Facebook as a friend. I accepted thinking I knew her since we had so many friends in common but after flipping through her photos I realized we had never met so I unfriended. That’s when things got really weird, check out our conversation on Facebook below:
I took a challenge of reading a book every week this year. So far so good. I am almost keeping up. I love reading, and I have been reading as long as I can remember. If the house used to be full of people, I’d hide under the bed and read so no one would disturb me. And I’d…
What really matters in a first impression?
I will never forget that morning in October when I sat outside my Economics class and wanted to cry. After all the hype of frosh week and being a freshman had gone…
Meet my German Shepherd, Echo. He’s loyal and bonded to me. He is also protective and shows good judgment…
It was around 10pm on a Tuesday night. I had a very productive day helping my family. I wrote a lot and analyzed more. Then it hit me; the placemat my life had in front of my door. I wasn’t fulfilled. I wasn’t satisfied so I sent a…
Even the most contradictory of belief systems can agree that this world is a vast entity. I’ve recently started watching Dr. Who, a show about a time-travelling genius humanoid that saves the world from destruction many times over. Even though it’s…
I love this approach. This is the way it should be. But unfortunately the problem are the intermediary between a freelance and the client. They think in boxes. So this only works if you write directly to the client.
Encourage yourself. Continue being the spitfire you are, because one day the fire…
The struggle to live up to our parents expectations, define ourselves career-wise and identify what our real values are, as we move from our 20’s into our 30’s, has become known as the “Quarter Life Crisis.”
5 things no one told me about divorce
I actually initiated the split — and i was so sure what i was doing was best. I had no clue how sad i would still be; how unprepared for just how big of a life transition divorce really is. Not…
Stop And Reflect: Your Standards May Be Dropping.
During my Fine Art and History of Art studies and later through my teaching, I learnt that the way we…
對話江旻諺：政治之圍與文學之城
我與旻諺都是經濟專業的學生，卻因彼此都熱衷於政治議題，在港大各種政治講座中頻繁相遇而相識。旻諺是台灣人，目前在港大學生會官方刊物《學苑》擔任副總編輯。《學苑》曾因為政治立場問題捲入過不小的風波。如今風波漸至平息，旻諺這個溫柔但不失態度的思想者，與我在《學苑》編輯室中，聊政治，聊文學…
I want to talk about feeling disillusioned.
I cannot reach all of the people in my contacts on my phone and computer. They are not all available. And I don’t mean that some of them are crazy busy. I mean that some of them are dead.
It’s literally just a color! It will attract you but it will not make you stay.
How Your Mirror Lies to You (Hint: It’s Not the Mirror’s Fault)
The Washington Post attracted my attention recently with this headline: “How to tell if other people think you’re hot, according to science“. (I don’t know if my sweet…
The process of harnessing inner magic has been the most powerful and game changing work in my personal life and my business.
Over the past few years I have been growing as a practitioner / business owner / friend / daughter / girlfriend / healer / human.
Many people think about how to secure their life rather leaving behind, their journey of passion. when people are passionate about something then there is one word strikes their mind – “RISK”.
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Ah… Tak disangka angkot juga mengikuti kekinian.. Walaupun drivernya berkumis ala “foke” dan rambut sebagian sudah memutih disertai dengan wajah “garang”… Lagu yang diputar di tape mobil tipe sederhana namun sudah memiliki usb ini, melantunkan lagu “Tetap dalam…
I was once obese, sick, hurt, and damaged by life…but then I woke up and realized I could be whoever I wanted to be. Then, I changed.
Luck — success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.
Have you made a decision yet?” is the one question I hate hearing. The world is full of too many options and too many decisions. I’m…
With over a dozen hours of physical exercise per week , multiple trainers , broken bones, torn ligaments and bulging discs along my athletic years, I always thought I was familiar with pain. Or at…
They come in their waves, the lessons and the tears, in currents that seem overwhelming.
Sam Olympic was a rookie car salesman eager to prove himself. He learned as much as he could about the brand, the…
An artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: hoarders collect indiscriminately, the artist…
I have so many clients who come to me looking for balance. That buzz phrase: work/life balance. Who made that up anyway?
It was 00:44hrs on a Sunday. It was cold and it rained heavily outside. The whole world was silent except for the sound of…
This day is going to be a good day. I have spent much time over the past few weeks finding myself and…
Writing these posts have really helped me understand who I am and what I really like to do. It’s made me reflect on each day and think about the happy moments that I can take from each day too. It’s good for my headspace.
American born, college genius Chris Jeon leaves his California comfort for the thrill of fighting with rebels in Libya. Um what?
This article, which was originally published in Mens Magazine, truely amazed me. Not only was the story riviting and…
Bruce Lee
And so Leonardo continues to teach relevant lessons. Makes you wonder whether he succeeded in time travel as well!
Most employers lack the patience for Leonardo’s narrative approach, but a resume should be all about differentiating oneself, and he no doubt outclassed the competition.
We die to live for the days ahead
To rekindle the blast of memories
Thank you, Felicia.
It is a high honor to think I made your day. If that’s true, I have just returned a favor you have offered me many times: making me grateful because of what you write.
I hope that I am not bringing up anything that may cause you pain or unpleasant memories. I ran across a…
I had dinner with an old friend last night. Meg is one of those childhood friends — the type you carry with you throughout various chapters of your life, departing and reconnecting from each other over and over again at the moments in our lives when we decide it is time to…
A well-known fact is that men do not know how to listen. But on the other side (Yeah I…
My father always told me that to take a really great picture, you’ve got to center it. You’ve got to have a focus. I think about this one and only lesson often. What’s the focus, the purpose of the photo, and are we always clear about what it is…
I have always felt an inexplicable attraction to being aloof,alone and sad( the three doesn’t always coincide, but then, sometimes they do). I cannot say that I enjoy being sad. I enjoy when I am happy: I hang out with…
This year I have embarked on a journey to find more purpose in my life and truly do the things that bring me fulfillment. Although many of us have these desires, few of us rarely take action to to find out. Usually we say “I really want to find more purpose in my life or I really want to find my passion”…
やる人は誰にも言われないでもやっているし、やらない人は何を言ってもやらない。そういう選択をしている。正確にやっちゃダメなんて誰にも言われていないのに。自分で自分に許可を出せていない。
僕がもらった人生最高のアドバイスは『Advice is shit.』(アドバイスなんかクソだ)
小さくてもいいから、失敗しても、お金がなくなっても、恥をかいても、やる人になりたい。ちょっとでも興味があったらやってみる。
死ぬこと以外はかすり傷。
Hi folks!
Surprised by the title? Do not be, I will tell you exactly how missing 1st division by 2% helped me in my life!
There is this common notion that men are meant to be these hardened, tough, emotionless…
Many of us have heard of an alcohol induced hangover and probably experienced it but there is another type of hangover that can make you feel equally lifeless, it’s called an emotional hangover, the result of making terrible life decisions or being on the…
Midlife Crisis
Age is something we ignore after we turn 21. There are no more exciting birthdays. No joy in getting older after that point. It’s just…
Looking into Other People’s Living Rooms
On my drive home, there is a road I take sometimes. It’s a residential road that just happens to be a connector of…
This is a scream for help. Money is not everything, it’s actually pretty much nothing when compared to your life, to your passions, to the light. Money will buy you clothes, a roof, and food, the necessities. But when you have enough for all of that, when will you leave it to pursue what is the most…
When a glass is filled halfway with water. Would you say, the glass is half full or half empty? Do you…
The summer between my eight grade and freshman year, every tiny aspect about me changed. My taste and attitudes towards nearly everything…
I play guitars. Not professionally. And though I played in a band many years ago and we had a demo album and a small concert once, I was much worse of a player back then.
I write music and play guitars for pleasure. For me it is both a form of…
Every day, I find two things to give or throw away. I’ve been doing this for a little over a month and it’s exhilarating.
I’m going through all my clothes, my shoes, my whatever, and asking myself— does this give me joy? When was the last time I…
The Day That Changed Forever “It’s just a muscular cramp.” Dismissed the general practitioner I saw…
It’s human nature to compare ourselves with others, even more so with the rise in technology. From instagram’ing our every meal, tweeting the latest trends, sharing our ‘moments’ on Facebook or Snap chatting our daily story, many of us spend our days either creating…
This is it. You know that you are a leader and want to make a movement in your…
Why I Think We All Need a Bucket list
BUCKET LIST MATTERS. I’ve realized that I long time ago but it took me a while before I came to my senses that what…
Was just LinkedIn stalking somebody and they had these 5 things written on their profile. I loved it so much I wanted to share.
As a species evolved to never be satisfied with what they’ve got, we’ve really come a long way. From ‘I just want someone who cares enough’ to ‘I just want someone who encourages the foodie in me’, we’re all looking for relationship needs that are always changing. We’re moving from logical demands like ‘Someone who understands’ to stuff like ‘Someone…
When I was younger I heard over and over again that I better pick something I love to do, because I would be doing it for a long time. It was this kind of ominous advice that truly meant “hey, enjoy yourself as a kid because you will have a job the rest of your life, and it’s going to…
Social media is the new TV. And it’s more lethal than old TV.
Expanding on some things I’ve been learning lately
One of the biggest fears I hear expressed when working with people whom are about to make Big Changes is that they are afraid of losing relationships in their lives if they change too much. The fact is It’s True and Painful…
There’s a simple little experiment we can do to reveal the weird and sometimes unhelpful nature of habit. It’s got to do with feeling good, with what Alexander called faulty sensory appreciation, and with making changes to yourself and your life.
Here’s to a well-lived life…against all odds.
When you go through difficult seasons, you tend to become overly sensitive, your sense of reason gets clouded by your emotions.
In celebration of World Health Day 2016 (yesterday) April 7th, I’ve decided to create this post in an effort to make things simple and bring value to the world, and if implemented could potentially improve your health, and in turn make the world a healthier place too.
Taylor Swift escreveu Out of the Woods inspirada em um de seus relacionamentos que, segundo ela, foi bastante conturbado. Explicando sobre a música, ela diz que mesmo não sendo firme, a relação não deixou de ser especial. Na música ela pergunta se eles já estão fora de perigo. Tenho um apego a…
They say practice what you preach, but as a parent, we know that is not always how things…
В суматохе будней, когда буквально весь мир стремится что-то успеть, находите ли вы время остановиться и…
What do you spend your time focusing on? Are you thinking about why you are not qualified for the promotion…
You smoke your life away
A hazy sooty release
for that instant rapture.
Ask the one
Consumed by incessant spasm
Devoured by fear
I’m a firm believer in “practice makes perfect.”
I get what you’re saying. With everything one does it should be the best one can do. And creating should be no different.
But it’s so so easy to get caught in that “not good enough” echo chamber of doubt. And then you just never hit publish.
I’m 27 years old, and by now I should know what I want to do with my life. Things that I do know I want to do/be:
A mother — I’m already one.
A parter — I’m currently that, too.
Brilliant! Just brilliant! Thank you!
That day it stopped.
One very bad day it was.
My heart stopped beating for that one person.
I’m filled with nothing.
I have no more emotions or feelings to give away.
“But what does it mean to be a human being when you can’t define yourself by how good your job is, how much money you make, what you can physically do, or even whether you feel comfortable in your body?”
This struck a chord with me — how true. Stripped away of your ability to *do*, you’re left with what *is*. Thanks for the valuable reminder!
Life’s not about grand scheme of things
A realisation has occurred to me which possibly might be the answer for the mental unrest in my head for a long time. One might possibly think that there’s a purpose for one’s existence on this planet.
Hello! I’m JP. You could’ve come to that conclusion on your own based on many clues. I’m very new to all of this, but I figured it just might be the outlet I’m looking for. Now, before we begin this relationship, there are a few things I need to bring out into the open…
The warrior
I was diagnosed with Tuberculosis at the age of 4. Due of overdose of medicines, my liver also got affected. However, it doesn’t end here. I…
Transformation for better
There was a time when I was the corner kid of my class. And I used to suffer from regular fits. Some glitch in the brain they…
While I am a firm believer in science, data, and logic I am also a believer of change.
Science tells us much about the world, but it is ever evolving, ever changing, and always seeking to better understand…
Travelling alone is something people often talk about as the ultimate self-discovery, time to get to know yourself. At the same time, it as the biggest nightmare for some people. There are a few things I have realised from solo travelling, and it only became apparent to me having spoken to…
This one is for the children, in particular teenagers. As an old fogey, I have experienced a lot of things in…
Wholeheartedly agree, and maybe an option for us adults as well. To keep us on our toes for when we talk to our wives. Perhaps when I forget to say please it could reply to ‘go get it yourself’…
I’ve never really been the one to think, “hey this is what my wedding is going to look like”
Or “hey this is what ring i want when i get married”
By Danny Holtschke
Great piece. Here letters are put together to create meaningful sentences….powerful…
This seems to be the routine. You first realize you’re not happy at the current stage in life, you know you want more. Then, if you’re one of the people who take action, you start doing more. You’re scare shitless. People to look at me, to…
1. It’s the day after your 17th birthday, and you wake up to find blood and vomit in your ex-boyfriend’s bathtub. You clearly tried to kill yourself the night before with a fifth of Smiranoff and two 40s. What do you do?
It is amazing to me every day how Quickly our Society is changing but also as Human Beings we are adapting and adjusting every day. The Most important factor to success and Winning the Day is having the ability to adapt and be flexible to what…
The builder has a concrete mixer because he knows he’s going to mix concrete. He has a drill because he knows he’s going to make holes and put screws in. He has a selection of spanners because he knows he’s going to be tightening up a variety of bolts.
I grew up in a very small town. Population 2800. Everyone is connected in one way or another. My mother was my…
I used to find excuses on small things without a second thought.
If I forgot to bring my colleague a coffee that she asked, I’d probably say I got a call from the manager and hurried back.
Thank you Gary Rogers for publishing my story! There are not enough words to express my gratitude for the support of the editors at The Coffeelicious!
I really HATE being a Cog, I want to be the Diamond!
This year I celebrated Thanksgiving for my second time. I’m an Australian and always…
I woke up this morning with this thought in my head. This wasn’t surprising as I had been thinking a bit…
By Danny Holtschke from StartupGeist
To wнoм do we owe credιт For тнιS qυoтe?
A child is about to be hit by a moving vehicle. An instant reflex makes us pull the child away, and the driver to apply…
Lol. You’re welcome
your experience & my experience
when you enter a new place what will you do? make yourself look experienced person? or don’t know anything like a new graduate?
You are one of my favorite writers and people. Please protect and value yourself.
Sometimes I think about what life must have been like for my great-grandparents and all of the family that lived before planes…
Got kids? I do. Two of them. Very seven and very nine years old. I was having a casual conversation with my glorious new friend who also has two boys, and we were working over how to best prepare hers for the questions their peers will ask about them having two moms and no dad…
It is a disease to feel so unsure, about every tiny little minuscule thing, I’m hoping, no I’m praying it has a cure, relieving me from the pain this uncertainty may bring.
Funny Quotes About Karma
Someone once said to me when our minds are thinking thoughts of death — it makes us live more.
I guess there are more of us who do. Gosh it feels good to read something like that. Thank you for sharing this story.
Should we cut fast food from our diets?
Over the years, fast food chains have expanded a significant amount over the last 50 years. With plenty of choices for on-the-go food, it is pretty difficult not to take advantage of the cheap areas to grab a bite to eat when you’re in a rush. That is usually the main reason people go…
