Life

The Great Divide

The big split today isn’t between Left and Right. So what is it?

A Conversation with a Professional Nail Artist

FRANK

Everything in life happens for a reason. I have never been one to believe in pure coincidence or dumb luck. That coupled with my religious beliefs…

Why You Should Step Outside Your Own Comfort Zone

So true.

Dont help people who always waiting for your help in the next time. Because they think you are easy to used.

Keep moving

Almost a year ago exactly I was let go from my job when the company decided to get rid of my department. It was my fifth time being laid off in my career (marketing isn’t exactly stable). The next day my husband left his dream job. Things were transitioning there, too, and the constant stress and…

What the Dead Read

I had a strange conversation the other day with a writer who said something that has stuck in my mind ever since. He asked if…

Who said we got to agree?

I see the world in a certain way. You, in the other hand, see it differently.

And that’s ok.

Who said we got to agree?

I see a growing number of people arguing daily as if there were only one truth. As if…

40 Days Without My Facebook News Feed

October 28, I decided to experiment with getting rid of the biggest distraction of the 21st century from my life: Facebook.

Observations

When you move to a completely new country, climate, company and city, there are bound to be things you notice that the locals find normal. These are some of those observations from my new life in Trondheim.

• People are in at the office by around 9 and leave again at 4 in the…

All My Life I’ve Been Listening, Now It’s Time to Speak

Case com alguém que…

Case com alguém que adora sua companhia para namorar mas também para fazer as tarefas mais chatas do dia a dia, como…

De valkuil van de doorzetter

Het leven kan best moeilijk zijn, heel onaardig zelfs en dan moeten we erdoor. Je weet dat het niet…

My NH7 Weekender

I booked my tickets to the Bacardi NH7 weekender in Pune in July with much anticipation – it was my first time at this event, and…

Do Yourselves a Favour

The first few men on the face of this planet lived like their own life depended completely on each other. They hunted together, ate together, prayed together, shared and cared. Everything belonged to everybody. Nobody envied. Greed was not defined yet. And then, in a potentially happily…

Are you self-harming without realizing?

Are you cheating yourself out of your best creations? Are you plagiarizing your magic…

Day 246: Checkpoint & Christmas mood

Checkpoint reached

Have you ever felt like you’ve…

2015, um ano para sobreviventes

O ano de 2015 não foi para principiantes, basta olhar ao nosso redor e sentir a pulsação do mundo, aqui…

I Am Alicia Worthy.

The girl that always knew she could.

A Brief Biography

Mr. Montgomery

Today is for me, it’s the day I get to have everyone smiling and nodding and saying good things to me. It’s my goddamn day and it started off shitastically. I asked my wife for a blowie this morning and she complained of a tooth ache and tiredness instead of opening her mouth and letting me lay my…

The predictability of this sickness

No breaks. No pause. Just cycling. Either actively in it or waiting for the next symptom. Always waiting and watching for the symptom to surface and ruin my understanding of how I can possibly live my life. Different medications, quickly shifting dosages, all in an…

Today, I’m grateful

These past few days, I’ve been taciturn af because of a class that has been bringing me down the entire quarter (Yes, I used “taciturn” and “af” in the same sentence). It’s difficult to find the silver lining on a situation when you’ve been studying non-stop for a class that you don’t even…

對話

中文。英文。德文。阿拉伯文。西班牙文。

— — —

我一直覺得，語言是個奇妙的東西。

Apophasis

I.

Like some Sunday afternoon, my years emerge —

The Blue Checkmark: Stay Classy When Success Hits

Encouragement is vital to the spirit. The point of motivating is to…

Ask Father Christmas for blue reading glasses.

Extempore: An Autobiography

The Untold Story

“You see, I am tired of constant fear, so I made a…

Try not to be a dog

There are two very strange properties of dogs that I want to highlight today. You might think that you are not a dog and these don’t apply to you, you’d be wrong. There are cases, situations, people or very specific goals that lets the inner dog of you out in public.

The Entrepreneur

Life thoughts…

Realizations on my mind

Indifference

What is the best thing in life?
-Love.
-What is the worst thing in life?
-Indifference.
She said. She was crushed, feeling there’s nothing in this world that makes sense. Not being able to find a single reason to feel and live, because nothing made her feel, which made every fucking, every fucking…

Prayer.

*I’m not even sure why I’m writing this. I think it is mainly for me… but for some who struggle like me.*

Last week, I stepped into a store during my lunch break, and had a something small catch my eye. It was a bracelet with one word on it. “pray.”

I will never forget the day I realized just how bad my own insecurities were impacting the people in my life, including those under my leadership. How could I have not seen this…

My Lovely Little Monster

I met him about two years ago, his name is Churchill, we normally call him Qiu. Now he is a really important part…

Family is great when it actually feels like family. Unfortunately, as this article and my own experiences with family have shown me, that’s often not the case.

The people who we’re told should be our closest allies are often our greatest enemies and that feeling is especially agonizing when you’re forced to rely on them.

“You attract what you is”

"Start your week by reprogramming your mind to create what you want. Do not say "I want". Say "I can". Do not…

Why do I have to choose between happiness and productivity?

Wonderful article. I really need to read this today. Thank you!

Time to Open your Presence

December 6, 2015

Ok, Readers, this has been a long time coming. Over ten years in the waiting — nope, not a typo… Ten years in the waiting because I’d be lying if I said ten years in the making as if I’ve been working on this Proyecto for the past decade…

Perspective Changes Everything.

We are living in times that seem to be overwhelmingly overpowering the way we think, act and live.

TEN WORDS OR LESS.

Shh, they might hear us. He whispered.

The Plane

For the past week or so, around 10 o’clock each morning, I sit at my desk in my government office, staring at the computer screen, concentrating on something or other. I begin to become aware of a noise like a bass mosquito in the distance, growing louder, more persistent. It is the sound of a small airplane…

The Impractical Life

At some point we have to pick.

Some pick at three. I’m a golfer. Or at seventy-three. I’m a priest. We pick a path. A life.

Too often, though, we let a life pick us.

TEN WORDS OR LESS.

She lie naked on a cloud waiting for him.

Change. Can you change? Do you want to?

It’s pretty common to hear conflicting messages on this. The self-help section of Avid Reader and the covers of…

So wonderful that’s true I like it

Question: have you ever perceived yourself to be a self-defeatist?

Garden Door

If a garden door is open, one should not take it for granted. For the garden might be secret, and there aren’t many chances for you to…

Quarto de Chumbo

Um quarto revestido de chumbo. Silêncio. O tempo parece parado, não fosse o ritmo da minha pulsação marcando aqui a presença de…

Today you find comparatives, not superlatives

We are living in the world of comparisons — comparing products and prices, comparing apps, comparing yourself to others, comparing salaries, comparing races, comparing beauty, etc. This world is no longer only a room for the best, finest and the…

Fleeting Time

“An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time.” This idiom is familiar to most people. Its main point is that life passes in a twinkling of an eye and we should cherish the precious time. Every time I read this word, I can’t help looking back to my past dozens of years. All the way…

9/11/15 The Power of Optimism

Everyday I feel like people grow increasingly and increasingly pessimistic. They describe their days as overlapping one another like they’re living in a large monotonous tumble dryer. They can’t finish a sentence without such complaints as; “lack of sleep” “lack of motivation”…

Have you ever read a book and you can feel yourself becoming that book, that in real life you can hear that wind smell the ocean or sea and feel the sensation of rocking or dipping or traveling just like its describes just as your reading? Have you ever seen something in the sky and next thing you know you are seeing it in a book, or on TV explaining…

This article explains in simple terms how a person can use these two apps to make money for themselves or for charity. One would first choose an interest, become proficient in the subject, then present the idea with their own unique twist.

It’s true. If people don’t value you, things tend to go awry. Even when you trying to merely help. Great expose.

Sejamos gratos e fortes

Gostoso mesmo é você vencer o limite que a vida te impõe, transformando seu corpo em instrumento de vida, fazendo da…

A Matter of Perspective

November 8, 2013: 275.2

December 4, 2014: 229.2

December 8, 2015: 238.7

Those numbers represent my weight: from when I started actually logging my numbers in 2013, to my last weigh-in at the time of this writing. Three…

The worst article I read this year! Congrats.

She left me for a better writer.
She left me a better writer.

This must be that whole “growing together” myth I’ve heard so much about. Very wise words of wisdom!

About me…

When people hear my name they would describe me as athletic, energetic, social, fun, and outgoing. I would agree with these descriptions.

Many mediums don’t make the media.

The worst kept secret in the world: the media doesn’t report the news, it makes it.

The self-fulfilling hysteria and sensationalism from much of the Western media feeds a perpetual…

A look at this life: part 1

You guys wanted to know a little more about my last two years, so here it goes…a sneak peek into the last 2 years of my life and the reasons behind my sudden move from Atlanta, GA to San Antonio, TX…Part 1.

I wrote a pee poem

I peed just to see what my trajectory could reach… many never the chance to behold my glance while pissing gold!

STOP Wasting Your Own Time, Start Executing.

Every single day, you are thinking about ways that your life could improve. You…

Briliant choice of words. I identify with the same view.

A Summary of Incomplete Blogs from an Incomplete Person

Short Winds!

I came across this term today while on my morning commute to Rice Lake listening to “The Power of Habit” on audible. This hit home for me. Normally you’ll hear constant motivational or self-development material talking about routine and discipline and perseverance and they’ll state the same damn 10 key…

My 21-Day Tribute

Day Seventeen

~by Miss Nicolina

Well your stories, and not just your stories but all the things you share, and those you have shared with me personally, have certainly impacted, influenced, and thereby played their part in shaping and forming me as I am today and continually do so (as all things we take into us do) and thus my life.

On the other hand, I love rain and the idea of rain. Reading this piece reminded me of my childhood while growing up in my rural community. The thought of an imminent rain brings joy because we (my siblings and myself) will be able to fetch rain water falling from the roof of our house and fill up our drums and buckets. Once it rains, we are sure of…

Time Up North

In the blink of an eye, my semester abroad has come to a close.

Bike by bike 1 — The Mustang — it’s all about the first bike.

Bike by bike is a series of posts, one for each bike I have owned, about thirty.

I was seven, so I had suspicions about the factual status of Santa, but here she was wheeling something into the…

Great perspective on what real “hustle” looks and feels like. Great motivation.

Open Letter to My Bed

Open Letter

Dear Bed,

You are my white, fluffy, queen-sized cloud of happiness. You have been with me through the thick and the thin, the good times and the bad, through sickness and in health. You are the love of my life. When I have to…

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

(Christmas 2009, Alltern8.com)

At Christmas I often find myself depressed. Maybe it’s the awful weather and the fact that my heating is so bad it only has two options: arctic weather or surface of the sun. Or, maybe it’s the fact…

“That’s What Makes You Beautiful”

I am legit in tears.

12.10 Daily offering fresh music

And each morning brings the promise to listen to the future

Wednesday Whinge (belated)

Having a day off (yay!) after 11 straight of 12 + hour shifts.

Been a bit tired, and possibly a little depressed, so that no leisure reading has taken place recently.

Key point. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WIKIPEDIA A NOVEL BEFORE FINISHING IT —…

Self-fulfilment

We spend weeks, hours, days, months and years attempting to understand our reason for being, our driving force and trying to understand our WHY. But is Self-fulfilment truly needed?

Why is it so important to know what makes you, you? What makes you smile, your purpose? Do any of these…

Words!

Sometimes the hardest thing to find
Is a way to express what is on your mind
Are words always enough to get across
Feelings ranging from love to loss?

Explore

#SMM4RU

So you’ve graduated college. You may or may be moving to a new city for a job, or be staying locally. Whatever the case is, have you gone out and explored your city? Where are the best places to eat? What sports does your city play? What history does your city hold? Where can you…

Poignant and true. Beautifully written. Thank you.

“I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer…”

The love that this piece was written with is easily felt. I loved reading it, thank you for sharing.

SAMPLE_TEXT

I feel like AKbiggs lost because of a lack of decent training partners. This must have made him feel a little salty. He should probably quit his job and move to (nor/so)cal to train and become the best that ever was.

The tragedy of life usually stems from people’s mindlessness. They think that they don’t have a choice, but they always do.

FIGHT CLUB

1st Rule of Fight Club is:
Don’t Talk about Fight Club.
Don’t Talk. Do.
What can you do to lift the world today?

crumbs in the bed

there is some kindness in the way
the earth is suspended on gravity’s back.
how it
rotates on it’s axis,
bound by the sacred trust
that space won’t bottom out &
shake us all from the earth
like crumbs in the bed.

Riddled with logical fallacies in just the first half

TL:DR

I messed up…

But then again, it is one of the most normal thing in my life. Everyone is capable of messing up their lives we just handle it differently. I am not sorry though, I messed up a lot of times and I probably will in the future but I am not sorry and I will not be sorry. I am sorry, however, if I happen to…

I too have thought about that capturing the moments through our eyes and storing it in the real memory. But unfortunately I always tend to frame any given moment and always see beauty in anything. I don’t think it is fair to say that taking picture is spoiling you living the moment and share later. Sometimes there is more than sharing and it is…

On Reading

When I was young, I read to escape. I suppose that’s still a keen draw. When I read, I don’t have to think about my own life. I can if I like, but it’s optional. I can focus on whatever I wish — how the story relates to my own circumstances, or the world in general, or perhaps just the characters in the…

Music

Music is powerful.

can help you celebrate,

can help you wallow in your sadness.

Music will scream out your pains with you,

it will never abandon you.

A serious volume of thought went into that piece. What’s your inspiration

Día de lluvia

Ojalá lloviera todos los viernes. O todos los lunes. O todos los días.

Let us give the hand of help

beautiful. :’)

I love the vlog. Lately, I’ve been trying to pay really close attention to how I spend every minute of my day, and as I’ve watched your vlog I’ve been able to see how valuable time really is and how much more I can do to stay busy every second and ramp up my hustle!! You’re the man, Gary!

feeling lonely in november

I mean all I’ve got to do is write and not hate my self (3:50pm)

On the bus chillin cold and alone. No friends everyone is busy. Honestly why are we all so emotional. Wanted to chill w/ ***** bc he’s funny but down to earth so that’d make me feel better…

Normal

Vague is the Time

“Vague is the time, between here and there, now and then, who and why. Here, we seem to figure that we have more than enough time to carry out what our hearts desire, yet so many of us often seem to fall short of whatever deadline that we put on ourselves. Much of what we obligate ourselves with…

Neil Castaldi

Neil Castaldi’s destination resort in Iberville parish, includes the earliest mound complex in North America, built about 3500BC.

It takes time…

It takes time to reach a certain level of perfection. It also takes time to start something. And let’s not forget maintenance.

But you need to start. Right away!

You rarely have as much time as you think you have and the beginning of a new project is…

#23

I ran into myself —

running away from the world.

friday to sunday i love you

I never had wine taste my lips, until I pressed them against ur skin (i thought i about kissing you long before I kissed you)

“he loves you its all over his face” -mom

we never wanna leave and we never keep track of time we get hella lost in each other’s arms and kisses and jazz selections

one moment of time

one moment of life

gifs a lifetime