By: Jessica Semaan
I am sitting at the coffee shop, waiting for my best friend. He’s getting a tattoo at tattoo parlor next to the coffee shop. He’s 6ft, 187 lbs, an okay looking guy who’s just graduated from medical school. So. he decided to get a tattoo.
I’ve traveled to both South America and Southeast Asia where I’ve noticed some obvious differences from the US. Here’s what I learned. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Please excuse the lack of fluidity as this was just a stream of consciousness along the way. Hope you enjoy.
But it was a Monday, no a Tuesday, no Wednesday, Thursday, FridayThen Saturday came around and I said “Who’s this stupid clown blocking the bathroom sink?”
All he ever wanted was to be someone in life that was just likeAll I want is to just have funLive my life…
We humans have an ingrained nature of comparing our present with the past or planning for the future. Most of us are happy with our past because we have learned from it. Moreover, we feel that we have done everything we could in the past. The only thing we are…
We’ve all heard this cliche before. But do we believe it? How many times have we not thought of…
As a generation of people, willingly attached to electronic devices with the preferences of text over phone, we are becoming detached.
by Yann Girard
A few weeks ago I had a chat with a guy who recently started working at a VC.
He said that he loved his new job. But he also felt the urge to start his own thing.
I started getting myself back to working life again since November.
Was difficult to get back on track after a really long time of shutting myself at home… Exhausting it was for my mental.To have to be accountable and deal with people. Letting myself have…
My social life can be confusing, I tend to bounce around a lot. Being 21 has opened the door to bars, an entirely new setting that I’m not particularly interested in. So, as of late I’ve found myself passing the time on various Tinder-esque apps, the likes of which continue to proliferate…
My favorite point was when the self described man’s man said he was conditioned by a heteronormative and hypermasculinized context as a youth. So he recognized that his environment shaped him and his desires but stops short of questioning the mold from which he was formed.
Don’t Schvitz the Small Stuff
It’s that time of year again — the season of New Year’s Resolutions. With 2015 coming to a close, most people have intentions…
I think the underspoken premise of this article is that so much of how we construct attraction is thrust upon us by the world we experience. There is no reason to tear someone down for what they learned.
However, we can hold people accountable for the lessons to which they cling.
In life’s journey there are many encounters. Some are planned, some are by accident, and some by divine…
The most important month of the year is December.
One of your earliest childhood memories is of visiting the capital with your parents, you were maybe 5 or 6 then, and the weekend leisurely trip involved, for the first time in your short life, a subway ride. As is the case with most children, you…
Be like water. Prepare to take whatever shape you need and become what you…
When you let the person leave because you are not capable of giving them anything except for negative emotions, letting them go is setting them free from you.
You open up your palms to set the bird free,
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ITとかスタートアップにまとわりつくワンピース的夢を追う精神。コピー。フレーズ。それに刺激されて人生を見る目は変わる。それは良いことだ。人生は自分の中で意味を探してそれを追うことが半分だと思う。特に飽和した日本の今みたいな社会では。
The feeling of getting done a good act comes from within our mind. We can feel it, cherish it, but we can’t buy it. Whenever we have done such act, we realize it sooner or later, but by ourself not by any other person. Our soul knows about it & makes us…
I wish I could write, but I can’t. I wish I could take a unique perspective and put it into words for others to experience, but my perspective is the same as everyone’s. I wish I could take the things that happen every day at work and school and home and make the extraordinary. I wish I…
A friend in need may not always be a friend indeed
As we grow up we come across a lot of different type of people. Some you instantly become friends with…
He was sitting alone, in a solemn look and two legs folded, he stared at the low ceiling.
Despite the small room he’s in. He could clearly see how he is now in a boundless realm; One belongs to the owner of the whole world.
Take a look at this well written article by @cyberomin and come back if you don’t mind.
Our people say “what an old man can see sitting down, a young man cannot see even if he climbs the tallest…
Our words will exceed our capabilities. A person can only do so much for another.
To feel for something,
to be driven to make things better,
April, 2014.
The weather was beginning to get better. It was early spring. The same days when the stage for her journey had begun to set. The air was fragrant with familiar scents but it lacked the verve she’d felt a year ago. Three sixty five days around the sun completely…
People are so fickle. One day they are there to feign support for you and then they are so quick to ridicule you as if you can’t…
Some seek femmes. Some seek butches. Studs. Everyone is different. But I also find that problematic.
It’s Day 1.
I want to write.
I am thinking.
This could be anything.
Say what you want about social media in general, and Facebook in particular, but for me…
Not able to put myself in people’s shoes.
Should someone invest their time and emotions on me?
If i can’t handle someone with thoughts and considerations, should i even be in a relationship?
Using the treadmill analogy is great, someone working for a venture capitalist is seeing people jump from treadmill to doing an iron-man. Or at least trying to do so. When someone is content with comfort in their life stay the treadmill is perfect, but perhaps, just maybe they could try a different routine, perhaps they could move from the treadmill…
Making an impact in the world. Sounds like a big job right? What are you going to leave behind in this world…
I’ve never been to Montreal before. I had planned many things. I had not expected to be worried about basics…
Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and I will give you rest.”
When we get busy with our lives, we tend to forget whom the true leader of our lives are. We get so tide up with going and going that we tend to get worn down.
Yes you are right. I always help people who doesn’t appreciate. End up it hurts myself. Lol me.
Take a good look at this picture. Do you understand it? She drowned herself, so she didn’t strugle.
The purpose of life is unique to your being, god is this experience that we make of our lives. We directly influence and are influenced by everyone else as we share this world.
That is what I really believe. Pay it forward, do the right things, and avoid expectations. Then your lotus will blossom.
I don’t like small talk; I never have. I dread the post-meal conversation that accompanies most Thanksgiving dinners — Meandering on the latest app or the unreasonable price of tolls these days. Exchanges like these are fluff, not substance.
What is age? According to the dictionary
There will come a day when all of the rushing and running will cease. Something will slam into you with the force of a freight train, stopping you, dead in your tracks and finally, you will be obliged to take a break and just breathe. Quite often, it is a loss or an unexpected tragedy which…
This morning, I was sitting at “Bubbles,” the local launderette, doing the laundry (I know, it’s a long story!) and reading “A…
Life keeps moving
but sometimes I’d rather
it didn’t go by quite
so damn fast.
I feel like I’ve lost the
Great post there Serene.
Knowing it came from you, amazed me a bit because you still have hopes towards this country though we all know how other races than Malays are treated.
I can’t close my eyes and just turn the other way around. We see what is happening and to be honest, we are afraid too.
We can go anywhere. We can fly across seas. We can drive across land. We can walk off the beaten path. We can…
Sometime back I saw the movie “500 Days Of Summer” and one of the scenes that still lingers in my memory for its so touching portrayal was the Expectation v/s Reality scene, where our protagonist Tom Hansen goes to meet his ex Summer Finn with a baggage of expectations and comes back…
Really good article. Everyone should give it a shot!
In another 15 minutes, I’ll be 26! Gives me a feeling of being grown up, and being aware of the vicissitudes of life.
I hope there’s never a day when learning stops; but somehow I like to imagine myself coming into situations where I’m fully prepared for all consequences. I still…
Once the gap is gone the essence submerge and it opens in an open stage
I receive the stank eye when I tell people I don’t have any children I’d be richer than Bill Gates and Donald Trump put together. Growing up as an only child I was an introvert, hardly had any friends and always stayed away from any type of conversation because my…
I can’t agree with this more.
I have actually stopped talking to some people because I am tired of putting so much energy as those people would cut me mid way and start their own raga. Like if I tell them I have been unwell, they’ll start off with the history of their illness. Why did you ask how I was doing in the first…
Thanks for writing such a good thing. It was like I was reading my diary. I always try to utilize each millisecond of my life.
Heroes 4
Alvis said that he felt tired. Then he casted a spell against everyone and they all fell asleep
Heroes 3
Dave said he feels like his stomach was on fire. Then suddenly he briefed fire out of his mouth
Is your brain and you two different things?? I mean one makes you do things you don’t wanna do and the other questions rather it’s right or wrong..
Is your mind and heart two different things??? One makes you feel insane and the other makes you feel like shit.
1 month ago…
“So this is it. My new beginning.” I think as I walk out the door. The crisp morning air greets me and I hope it’s going to be a good day. “This is you’re life and you have a fresh beginning” I say to myself as I force myself into the car. We start driving…
I was writing about another thing i think is related to,: how all the things become something we must know and being an expert about it and for few hours/ days. It is so interesting to think about all those things what make us feeling like we have to be always in a rush and there is no time to sit down or enjoy a simple conversation. So i would add a…
Проснувшись, когда Солнце уж взошло,
Полюбовавшись красотой природы,
Осознаю – былое отошло,
Ушло, прошло, как дождь с ненастною погодой.
Здоров и весел, полон новых сил,
You’re on your way home from work and you’re sitting in a cab, that is slowly navigating through the city’s night traffic. You’ve flipped through the kindle app on your phone , trying to read the chickflick that you bought off for Rs 300, but there’s something brewing inside of you. A sort of restlessness and disquiet. You rest your head against the…
The Power of Thinking (Without Doing Anything About It)
Thoughts. This immense category is one of the only human attributes that does not create more than one outcome. When I say this, I am referring to thoughts before they have left the mind. Unless someone has actually spoken, written down, done an action, or done any…
Teacher. Nurse. Receptionist. Fashion Designer. Mom.
It’s strange to think that all those careers I was so accustomed to hearing when I was a child. They said I could be anything, and that the sky’s the limit on what I could be, but still there was always something…
Let me seek Him, again this time
With burdened expenses, without any dime
Let me seek Him, in failure and in pain
Is He also achievable, with mind insane
Thank you for your kind words, Brent. I’m happy I’m on the right track. Yes, learning is key! Especially with the ever-evolving market and immense innovation that’s happening in the world right now.
Great read. In todays society the pressure to succeed is greater than ever. Admission averages for universities are higher and requirements for the work field continues to become more demanding each day. Yet through all of this we miss the most important thing in life, the enjoyment of life. The fast paced society of today doesn’t give us a chance to…
Thank you for giving me these four perspectiv to my Consulting Buisness.
I am a ArtCommunicator for Alic&Franc, a Vocalist for Rachel Taxi and an Art&Culturepolitician for The Liberal in Sweden!
I act like these four in my Buisness. I need to get structure and power to make a succés in my work and…
It is a well documented fact that a great majority of people do not achieve anywhere near their full potential, and if they were to be asked why that is the case, the simplest explanation yet the most irritating ones would be this : “Nobody has done this for me” or “It’s not my fault” or…
One of my deepest fear is one day you will meet someone else that will be able to give you everything that I can’t and choose to love them and forget about me.
Свою ли ты жизнь проживаешь,
О странник лунного мира?
Свои ли стихи читаешь,
Когда тебе так уныло?
На солнце и видишь его ли?
Fear weakens us in many ways.
Thanks you Sir, for your kind words. #Respect #Respect #Respect
Then do we stop creating? Meditation seems like it is about learning how to stop creating and allowing life to happen.
That’s great to hear, Yimy! It’s brave people like yourself that give others the inspiration needed to follow their passions and live fulfilling lives. I wish you the best on your journey.
Not all men, but I get your point. Know that when men speak up against assault on women, we too get excluded from the group (what a weirdo!)
From primary school on wards, I’ve always been the shy type. Dubbed the quiet one by the kind, the boring one by the mean. And for the longest time, I was content with the way I was. I was able to be myself around my friends and I did somehow have friends. But lately, it has been my main…
Agreed, wonderful conveyance brother.
For me, the answer to what you are missing is obvious. You never mentioned the word love, ie having a love relationship of a life partner kind. Not even a past one! One way of defining happiness is having meaningfull relationships, which you like/desire. Yet the biggest meaningfull relationship is loving someone and being loved in return and even…
We have this Nenuphar long time ago with us. There is only one flower from the beginning. It’s colour is so beautiful. And in order help her not feel so lonely, we brought four cutie fish.
Once day, the rain poured cats and dogs and the water spilled out of the pots. One or two fish…
Live.
Or die trying.
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The main reason is because this old system is letting a lot of people down, so people are forced to think outside of the box.
Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable
Don’t ever bottle your feelings up,In the end,It will hurt even more,Than it hurt at the beginning.Seek for somebody,That you can trust,And talk to about it.Ignoring your feelings,Can put you in danger.Isolating yourself from others,Harming yourself,Isn’t the right thing to do.Take a stand,Show the…
Yes. The strongest people are usually the ones going through mental instability and breakdown. And it sucks when people don’t understand us and how they don’t seem to help us as much as we need them to. Hence why we still need to be strong and help ourselves.
