BY MAX LUKOMINSKYI
As of today I am 25 years old, Time flies and mine’s is a first class.
When is a rule really just a suggestion? And when do suggestions morph into rules? Every day, physical signs tell all of us what to do, written instructions direct us how to…
So a psychotic person showed up on my porch last night. I don’t say this to be denigrating, he was psychotic in the technical sense of the word. He was having delusions and hallucinations.
When you put together “challenging directly” and “caring personally,” you get a simple 2x2 framework. You can use the 2x2 to help you realize even in the heat of the moment when you’re veering off course.
Apologizing is hard. If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a half-assed apology, you know how demoralizing that feels…
“A Penn undergraduate student was struck and killed this morning by a SEPTA train at 40th Street Station.” As soon as I read these words in a campus-wide email, I knew something was off. Rarely does a Penn undergrad venture out to 40th Street Station. Especially not before 7 a.m. on a weekday…
The older I get the more I realize that not much happens by accident. Life takes a lot of intentionality. Somewhere along the line what I call the “American Idol” sensation seems to have swept the country. To us watching the show it appears as though someone like Carrie Underwood gets chosen from the…
Not because it’s annoying, it’s mainly because I don’t have a clue! Although maybe you can help me by asking me something else.
Human Builds Human
“Gah! My ankle!” I yelled while tumbling to the ground, backpack and all. It was pitch black and I…
As an ESFP personality type in the Myers-briggs test, long-term planning was not exactly my strength. Therefore, my path to…
Chicago. The time has finally come.
I’ve talked about this with you for several years, sometimes with humor, sometimes with regret, but almost always while weeping softly. What do I mean? I FINALLY TURNED 30. Considering how much time I spent/spend talking about…
He Left Me For God. Him, Too.
There is not a better way to say this…
I dated two men. Two totally different men. They both left me for God.
It was early 2004 when I was given the assignment of helping launch the Scion brand for Southeast Toyota…
I’ve been feeling rather inspired and, yet, so demotivated. I must admit, I get rather sucked…
You’re dying.
Rest when you need to.
You are not melodramatic for staying in bed for three days.You are not crazy just because you almost ran your car off the road.You are just different now. Becoming.
by Yann Girard
When someone tells you you’re funny but doesn’t laugh at your jokes, well then you’re probably not funny.
When you constantly have to tell yourself that story that you’re happy, well then most of the times you really aren’t.
This isn’t another one of those tirades aimed at women, or men, who are in denial and stuck in relationships where their…
When I was in Boy Scouts, we had a rule about campgrounds: You had to leave it cleaner than you found it. The rule was not, “Take away all the trash you bring…
Sometimes when I write, I’m describing a grand spark of inspiration.
Most other times, I’m describing the shit show half of my life.
There’s hardly an in between — as most things inspire me if they aren’t driving me bat shit…
There was this day when I was in first grade. A girl in my class, I think her name was Allison, her older sister came to our classroom to drop something off. She was a sixth-grader. I can’t remember what she looked like but I vividly remember thinking I will never be a sixth-grader. Some primitive…
Day 16 — Reflection
Today my emotions went in the reverse of yesterday. I started off feeling like absolute crap but then things picked up towards the end for the better.
You know when you’re in a shit mood and getting out of it feels damn impossible? That was me. Bad moments from the day before had…
How we start our day sets the tone for the way we spend the rest of it. Some days seem to start off…
I’ve never been a good writer at any stage of life. But i’ve always wanted to share my experiences because i believe in today’s world, we cannot expect to learn from our experiences alone. We should be able to learn from others experiences as well to gain more knowledge and to make more…
Why was everyone in her world a taker and destroyer? Single-Minded, self-interested murders that couldn’t see a picture bigger than their own.
She had always been a giver. A giver of her whole self; with a deep longing for her fervor for pleasing to be…
My dad hung this wooden plaque in his office for years and I never knew the story behind it.
We all have a little sinner in us. If we are told not to do something, our brain starts to gnaw at the idea of doing it. If we can’t have something, our mind flicks a switch and makes us crave it more. Rebellion. Excitement. Risks. We all feel the need to do something we are not…
There are days when everything seems to go your way.
Ci sono un tempo e un luogo giusto per ogni cosa.
Ogni tanto tendo a scordarmelo.
C’è la cultura del “cogli l’attimo”, de “i treni che passano una volta sola”, di “ogni lasciata è persa”.
Ma dove sta di casa la cultura del seguire le proprie emozioni, il proprio istinto, ciò…
If you have a twin you probably experienced this before mum’s contractions began. You didn’t want to come out but your sibling was way too eager to experience the outside and you had to leave the comfortable confines of the womb because your sibling, mum, doctors yelling push, nature and all else…
You aren’t what i would class as very self aware, being that in wasting your time writing this nonsense you, yourself, sound like an asshole.
As far as not giving a fuck, i think you also fall into the category, of most people on this earth, who also don’t give a fuck, which is why the world is so full of assholes!
Here’s one of the common deathbed regrets: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself…
It is the 4th quarter of my senior year of high school. Surprisingly it hasn’t hit me yet…
AND LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING FOR IN DUE SEASON WE…
Gratitude at Age 40
Wherein I share some reflections about some of the gratitude I feel, even if perhaps overly wordy or sentimental, while turning the wheel past the 40 mark today. I’m so very grateful.
For family, whose love and presence, whose pain and suffering, shared in a circle, fuel joy and…
When you get up in the morning, what do you do when you catch yourself in the mirror? Do you say anything? Do…
After reading the Straits Times article: ‘Don’t blame the millennials if you can’t hold on to them’ that was published on the 12th of April 2016, I had an urge to write about something that had been…
How much are you choosing what is?
Wikipedia.org defines the term as :-
“Jack of all trades…
There I said it. It is okay to make judgments out of anything. Well, before I get dissed and thrown by virtual tomatoes, then let me ask you, is it possible not to make judgments out of anything? Really? I can even look at a tomato and say that, “ooh it must taste bad because it…
I think I have never felt that much confident with myself throughout my life. It has always been easier for me to find what…
I commend you for your frank and unbiased sharing. I believe that we should not protect or shield our kids from the influences out there but instead act to mitigate or explain them. That is our role as responsible well-educated adults.
And I believe it is more important to be correct rather than being politically correct…
Thank you. I’m know that is a simple yet broad statement of gratitude although I don’t think I say it enough to you guys. I remember when you both first dropped me off at preschool and I was whimpering as I clenched onto the sleeve of your shirt not wanting to let go, not wanting to start something new and away…
IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING I LOVED YOU
AS BOLD AS MY MIND COULD RECKON
I’ve been writing about gender norms and gender identity a lot lately, mostly due to the fact that my nearly 4-year-old preschooler is trying to make sense of gender within the world around him. He’s curious about body parts. He comes home from school…
I think I’m willing to walk out of my comfort zone, well, most of the time.
I know I am going to learn something every time I’m out of my comfort zone and I do. Still, there are times that just so awkward and unpleasant that I…
As the yellow cotton curtains in my room flutter away to glory in this arid afternoon’s wind, I can’t help but wonder if things would have…
Tonight I prayed. I haven’t done that in a long time, because I consider myself agnostic. I don’t know if there is a God, one god, or maybe many gods, or spirits, or aliens controlling our minds and there’s no such thing as free will because: aliens! I don’t know. Not for sure.
What a stupid question. No you can’t. Lets be blunt and blatant here. Why did you read reach this…
Bipolar – it’s a crazy (if you excuse the pun) diagnosis. Sure celebs have it so you’re grand. That’s what I thought in my hypomanic state when I was first diagnosed. Fry Katona my mate called me. I took it all in my stride, I felt well equipped to deal with it. Then I told a friend whose face fell and it suddenly hit me that this wasn’t something to…
Saturday: Is that your hair? You have such nice hair! Are you fully black? I don’t think that kind of hair grows on black people.
Sunday: Iyho, bug’inzinwele zingaga! Do you relax your hair?
If you wish to seek a cure, the most straightforward answer I have is to achieve self-acceptance. For many, this is not so simple. In my experience, the antidote simply involved examining empirical data and asking, What does the record show?
It is said that this year’s lottery selection for H-1B petitions has been done. H-1B is a status that authorizes someone…
Andrew Westbrook is happy with two boys, thank you.
We live in a world that does not calculate and take proper inventory of our planet’s resources,
I saw a dead person today.
I walked up to her and said: Yvette*? Hello?
Her eyes were open, tubes strapped to her mouth, monitors in her head, on her fingers and on her chest
I’m not a huge fan of roller coasters but one thing I know, if you want to enjoy your visit to the…
If you’re somebody who has a lot of ideas, it can be pretty easy to get overwhelmed and/or distracted by all of the…
It’s how you get through the day. Minute by minute. Breathe in, breathe out.Focus. Just one thing at a time.Focus.Finish it.You look at the clock and 5 minutes have gone. Build your day in minutes. Breathe Life is pulsing, running shattered through your…
Photo by Clark Street Mercantile
You can, You will, You must!!!
Success will come when you change…
Your relationship with social media has become toxic. Your Facebook news feed doesn’t like you, you think, and you don’t know why but you’re starting to take it personally. Human mediocrity and overstimulation makes you develop weird behaviours that are a…
How to go forward when you’ve messed up really big.
If you’ve lived long enough (like past 8 years old), you’ve come to a point where you find yourself in a pickle of your own making. A really BIG pickle. One you’d really rather not have everyone know about. You know…
3 Daily Habits That Lead To Success & Happiness
As you barrel through life and your career, there are defining moments at every turn. Some are incredibly visible and some are not. The little moments often occur daily without notice and without conscious recognition of them. Yet they have great impact.
I was thinking the same thing in these days. I wanted to write something about it, but you said everything I had in mind! So I am going to finish my reading and highlight all the rest of it because I really loved your post.
It was the book ‘The Blue Sweater’ that got me thinking in this direction. The author Jacqueline Novogratz narrates her own story of finding newer ways to tackle global poverty. She convinces you that traditional charity is designed for failure. The newer philanthropic investment, is a…
Q: What happened when you got back to your apartment after work?
A: Oh man, let’s see…I biked home from work, went to lock it up on the street (right where I always do) next to where I park…
It’s awesome and inspiring to see how positive people can be.
I plan it out in my head. The excitement builds in my chest as I get my tools ready to create something beautiful. I feel a sudden spark of raw, unbridled inspiration begin to pour in as the world seems to perfectly align. The entire history of mankind culminating into…
Generally I don’t talk about this, I talk about life, social issues, emotions, aims, dreams, values and everything. But…
What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows.No time to see, when woods we pass,Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars…
How much do you need?
Not much…. Then what are we heading for and why? Now, since my friend bought a diamond set, I too want one. But didn’t you say the last week that you would not buy more jewellery, since you had enough?
8 Ways Smart People Use Failure To Their Advantage….
Failure is a Product of your Perspective. What one Person Considers a Crushing Defeat, another Sees as a Minor Setback. The Beauty is That you Can Change How you See Failure So That you Can Use it To Better Yourself.
Sustainability… A very trendy word painted everywhere in green shiny letters… So used and abused that most people have lost sight of its meaning.
Do you know what strengths are? There things that encourage us to do better, like if you try doing something like a math test, and then you get a grade and it is a bit lower than you expected. If your teacher gives you another chance to do the test over, then you can get the advantage of making the place…
Growing up the last twenty four years of my life, I have met people, worked with people and…
You could practically name anything off the top of your head, and I’m confident I could relate it…
We all have heroes, and all heroes die. My own personal hero was dead long before I even knew he had existed. But Charles Bukowski’s legacy was there…
Benefits of Pure Mango Pulp
One reason why people wait for summers especially in the South East Asia is, because they get to relish mangoes. Many countries in South East Asia specifically India experiences huge supply of mangoes of various varieties.
Work hard, follow your gut feeling, and sucess will come naturally. Knowledge, experience and acomplishments are things noone can take from you; it will pay off for sure if not in current job then in the next one. And, btw… upper managment is not stupid (if they were they wouln’t be there). You may be buddy with them but promotions happen to those who know their job (in 99% of cases).
I know, I know… You want to have fun in your twenties. But come on! How cool is it to be a bad ass with a good education. Imagine a life where you will be living in a house made of glass with “the one” (however this is not the only scenario…) and not taking shit from anybody. Yes, this could be you…
Dear mind,
You/I woke up with a light face but a certain heaviness inside. The heaviness did feel like a lot of burden but still something was wrong.
Breathe in breathe out part makes lot of sense.
How about the law of Sun Tzu: a good leader is someone who doesn’t show his worry to his follower? Kind a handle the problems to stayed put on the surface, before it’s blew up? How do u think bro #imho
There is a poison in the manner with which a youthful person sees an elder. I’ve noticed it within myself, and I will wager it resides in many of my peers.
We see people of a certain age as flat. We see them as world-weary shells devoid of an adventurous spirit. We assume that they’ve lived simply and lived little. We do…
DIFFERENCE IN IDEOLOGIES
Today’s youth is dynamic and is ready to break the bubble of doing the absolute. This is a creative era. They are finding their passion in arts, dance, writing, photography and other creative fields. Problem arises when generations have conflicts. Most of the families around the globe, especially…
I remember that feeling, that nagging, needling demon so well. And it turns out — for all my struggles to get there, all that chasing the dragon of some imagined adulthood with Enough Of Everything At Last — there’s no “there” there, after all.
Leaving is a skill. I have been practicing a lot recently.
I’m moving to Germany. Unfortunate family medical issues are taking my girlfriend and me to Bonn.
And I’m fucking terrified.
There R many reasons why people drop out of college. Some being college is too stressful, college is too expensive or “i dont like my classes” and all that other bullshit! Girl stop making excuses for yourself ! Without college you are lowering your job opportunities and im pretty sure…
The doors of the train opened with a soft noise. Three steps later, I saw thousands of heads under mine, walking towards…
Sometimes the need to share what we are experiencing takes over our “installment". You need to differiencate if you like taking pictures to share in order to make others happy or you want to take the pictures to show to the world how many amazing places you’ve been to by egocentricity. What i do is to litteraly switch off my phone from time to time…
WHY RUN FROM REALITY.
not able to live to others standards….not able to keep up the work…to be happy…sometimes just to live.
reality ,you have responsibility,deadlines,expectation,goals,pressure and what not ..some people try to live on and on, without actually realizing not able to see that either…
Attentive listening is the way to live fully. Listening has very much importance in our daily and professional life that can be expressed from given examples.
· You cannot show favorable expression if you don’t listen attentively that attract most famous people to talk…
Non-action is a precept of Taoism. It goes with simply being — being present — being aware — being. But non-action goes against the grain in our busy world. I wondered how I could cultivate more non-action to my life.
What direction is your life taking you.
How are you actions affecting that direction.
Will last year be repeated this year.
What choices are you making now, that will affect how you live your life.
Darius Foroux Good advice that has been covered before but always worth repeating. Do a few things really, really well. Be great at the things that you’re already good at. None of us need to be jacks of all trades and masters of none. Enjoyable read!
I read something this week that stopped me in my tracks.
No its never too late to forgive and I know some times it takes time. But before forgiveness I believe in analyzing whether its really worth being offended.
If someone says or does something that I don’t like, I first try to see if that person matters to me. If yes, then whether what was done or said, was truly meant by that…
I take great pleasure in admitting this fact repeatedly, that, I am a storyteller. People and life around, excites me. It is fodder to my brain. And being around this world and many such stories later, I…
How I wonder!
How I wonder what happens to me,
When I’m not how I should normally be,
When I garble what I shouldn’t, ever,
And end up saying “I should have never..”
Bikes rule!!
Always have
And always will
Awarding u Nice Award
For well executed breakaway
Avanti!!
Biggest challenge for me to remember names mostly pronunciations of names difficult that put me in difficulty to speak person right name.
Here are some practical ways of remembering names of people:
You might call that a description of what happens when I am presented with a challenge that doesn’t provide obvious…
I’ve always known this. I do not multitask, I take my time to do one and then when I’m done another. I believe in simplicity which is a form of sophistication and that if we can just declutter our lives a little bit more we can live happily.
I have a clear idea of where I am going and where my business is going. One thing I have learnt is that I need other people to buy into my vision and get behind me and support me…there is no such thing as a self made billionaire!!! But just as important is that I have learnt not to spend time…
So through. There’s nothing more to say. It takes guts and perseverance to start a business.
I lived in Alabama for a while and I’ve seen real incidents like this. I still recall meeting eyes hoping to communicate, “yeah I too can’t believe she just said that.”
Each story has a beginning
Today is a great day. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself, from the minute I woke up. It is my 28th birthday and even though I have no reason to feel old, I do. Old and tired of my life, but mostly tired of…
My point basically is this I enjoyed OKCupid for meeting people for free I have not yet worried about getting to the third date because I probably won’t I’d like to be married but I’m running out of time because of health problems so I’ll probably be a bigamist that way I can save on unnecessary cost of divorce I am currently single I hope to change…
Busyness
Today was a busy day at work, quite tiring. I was already mentally drained by 1pm and somewhat physically tired. I was doubtful about getting main assignments done for the day. I have 2 additional assignments that I can do in-between my main filing duties, so I wasn’t too worried about that. After taking a late and…
Recently, I read an article on Medium, …… It made me reflect and make some major discussions.
Stella, I like u a lot.
I gave Tinder a shot as a good friend suggested. In a city like NYC, I was lost, I needed new people and I wanted to date…
I’ve always wondered where I stand in everyone’s lives. But you know, I didn’t know I was disposable. Thrown away whenever they want. Use me, dispose me.
Sometimes you don’t need a whole bunch of words to make your point.
Sometimes even a whole bunch of words doesn’t help you making your point.
You are the case no.1
I wonder if the mild delerium we experince during this phase of mental fatigue actually helps free the mental constraints as the mind lowers the boundries we sunconciously create to enable a deeper conection to our creative side? Hmmm a thought provoking read which i will try tonight.
I dont think… I feel… Feel that I love…
