Life

Being 30 & Not Having Your Shit Together

Act I — Twenty is Reckless

Read This If Your Friends Are Ghosting You

Have you noticed that everyone is canceling plans on you?

I’ve been documenting my life through gifs for the past year.

Every day for the past year, at around…

How important is anything, really?

The world is 4.5 billion years old. And if we compress this frightening expanse of time into a mere…

My Semester of Eating, Praying, and Loving.

When I read the famous book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert I became obsessed with the idea of spending an extended amount of time in different countries, soaking in their culture and taking in as much as I can. In the book, she describes her…

Zygmunt Rymuza — 1944–2015

Zygmunt was my friend, and he passed away two days ago. I have been feeling really bad, because he was not a close friend but, I realize, a dear friend. I was never able to put an age on him, it turns out he was 71, the age of my mother. It’s too early to go. Story goes he went to…

I have been doing this intuitively without know what i was doing all this time , instead of dedicated 5 hours per week , i do 1 to 2 hours every morning as soon as i wake up, it’s normally my idle time cannot take questions discussions, my family knows its my idle time, but recently i turned from blackberry to android, with lots of noisy apps, this…

The Road Less Traveled

Amman, 20/12/2015

Week 11

Places and people tell stories. And sometimes, these stories are worth sharing.

Everything you will read has happened…

The Explorer’s Creed.

This creed serves as my guiding beliefs on exploration:

1. The world is full of inspiration and…

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Untitled.

There is something to be said for living without expectations…

Far be it that we cease to plan or hope or wish or dream, but even the best-laid plans can come to naught and all of our reality be altered at a moment’s notice. Our life is full of these intersections where order collides…

Ride the spiral to the end… A year in review

I can say that this year didn’t start as the best year ever. Was an opportunity to change, but that 1st of January was so dark to me. I just couldn’t see the bright side on anything. Just got separated after a few years of marriage and didn’t feel like…

1 thing you should do when the plane lands

I am currently on a Scoot flight back to Singapore. 1500 feet above the air…

Insecurity Too

Insecurity comes in many guises: Looking over from behind the wheel of a 97 Ford Taurus at a dude driving a Tesla. Not dancing cause…

Thoughts ‘pon a Winter Eve

• Your dreams and true visions will be crushed by people that “care”, but think they are somehow sick because your visions doesn’t match theirs.
• If you are not disciplined, focused, and driven, the people closest to you can hurt your dreams the most

Life as an Extrovert

A Lonely Road

The Smaller Truth

Here’s the kind of day it’s been:
you turn that wine glass in your hands
as a rabbit runs across the yard.
Somewhere, God’s in a rocking chair
stringing wax thread through a needle
to sew up the tear in a baseball mitt.

INSULTS

by Ken Finton

The definition of a verbal insult is to disparage and speak with abuse and disrespect. People in the…

Settling Lowers Your Standards

I had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day. He was sharing with me how he was not getting the desired results in a relationship that he was in at the time. I asked him if he ever set a clearly defined standard for himself when it came to relationships. His…

How Keeping a Journal can improve your life

A little over a year ago a friend of mine pushed me to try keeping a journal. I have…

My destination was way off course, heading into the abyss to be precise. But since prioritising my positive thoughts and applying them, I’m slowly correcting my errors.

One of the big reasons for this, was my job. Life was passing me by, my mind was overloaded with work, other thoughts were put to the back of my mind…

When the thrill is gone

As I make my morning tea and contemplate all the many excuses I can come up with to legitimately call out sick, I…

The present

Life is so unpredictable. One minute you have everthing completely figured out, and the next you’re not sure of anything at all. The question is, which one is better? Is it realistic to plan your life in a world that promises nothing more than an abundance of suprises. It absolutely isn’t! And so why…

Sweet Stripes

A pretty photo of the flag. I don’t know what it means. I know it was a breezy day in Dayton and I was walking out of Kroger, Sweet…

“ It felt like a lifetime”

It felt like a lifetime

“Turns out he really has a talent…”

Dad and I aren’t close. We talk on the phone for a few minutes every couple weeks, struggling to…

21 Months

21 months later and
I am altogether more
certain of the things
I told you before.

That’s the truth
and the bitch of it.

Part 2:

Back in the Eastern Cape, Patience faces other obstacles.

I received a missed call from Patience. Several in fact. The volume had been turned right down as a matter of politeness during some activity or other.

Being yourself

Why is it that the best advice someone can give you is just be yourself?, personally i hate this advice, because being ourselves is so naive, many things can mold a different selves in ourselves, you are not the same around a pretty girl or with the president or a beggar, being ourselves leaves us trying to…

This article is nothing short of the cruel truth. Men like feeling dominant, but ya women need to stand out ground. We shall not be shaken by the male species.

I think there’s a point in our lives when we separate our interior monologue — “the voice in our head,” into one we had in our youth and our current “adult” one. It’s that funny point when we look at ourselves and laugh at how silly we were, how “young” we used to be. I find it strange, and slightly self-insulting, because it seems to imply that the…

Hi susie the example that you gave about young CEO’s creating a sense or urgency to achieve something as soon as possible is so true. I had to convince myself that i should do things according to my way and not theirs. My subconscious knows that and always prods me to do the things the way I’m comfortable in, but reading about these acheivers and…

How to break past a creative rut.

It hits us at times.

Just thinking what life is all about. A treasure undiscovered or an event that never ends or a mystery, which is unresolved. Going on with these questions, life gives certain glimpses of what is it of, which most of us can never identify.

Different versions and different perspectives of analyses on life, makes it clumsy. A…

Thanks for the review…and illustrating the value of embracing experience before passing judgement; you just perfectly illustrated how our skepticism can be validated while still being open minded to “experience” it and walk away with a couple of nuggets in the process:) Good work.

Sonnet #91

Here it comes: the old familiar refrain,
The adage I thought I had defeated.
But it’s back; its purpose just to cause pain.
Those vile words, in my head are repeated.

Great stori, i read it a couple of times, but i just wanted to ask Were are your kids now ?

My immediate and visceral reaction as I began to read was an audible and wolfish snarl. This is a frequently encountered matter which increases my blood pressure to near fatal levels, whether it be at work on in a social or public setting.

Let me be absolute on this — there is NEVER an excuse to leave a loo seat splattered…

This is why I completely tune out celebrity news. I don’t understand people who know all the daily happenings of their favorite celebrities' lives. “You didn’t hear? What are you, living under a rock?” Yes, I suppose I am…

As for other sorts of news, I tend to scan headlines. The only value it gives me is a small amount of…

10 Uncomfortable Life Truths That Sting A Bit (But Feel So Good)

The truth about faith. It is in the quiet moments when you realize what that really means. Some may have a viewpoint that faith is only something that occurs when you really believe…

Busy funday !

I ended up my yesterday’s story at the afternoon. Sorry for that because i was out with some friends and it was not worth talking about.

So let’s talk about the funday (Sunday).
Last night i came home late, but i don’t know how i woke up early after a sleep of only 3–4 hours. I…

Words to live by…

I have failed many times, and I have been successful but a few times. Someone can fail a thousand times, yet they only have to succeed once.

I have been in many a slump, but I was certainly never defeated. It’s what I have learned from those failures that got me back on top. I’ve…

Thank you Susie for sharing your personal journey and reflection on our enternal pursuit of perfection that is so culturally ingrained in our environment. I could not agree more, if we don’t know what we are good at, maybe we are confused, the good way to start is make a promise to yourself that the I Today will be better than the I Yersterday ☺ keep pushing .

Hi Mitchell, great article. Quality alone time did wonders for me when I started going to the gym three times a week during lunch time. My mind was so preoccupied with work and noise so to finally have a chance to unplug and to do it consistently was life changing. I had something to look forward to and it became a habit until I quit my job. Which is another story.

Why does it feel we hit a brick wall some days?

Be careful with what you say/do, how you say/do it, who you say/do it to and the people around you. Be careful of people you call your mentors, leaders and friends. The devil does not come in oerson to attack you, he comes through those around you and uses thise that knows you.

My prayers for you is, you will not end 2015 solving one problem to another. Be Careful of and about life.

That Which is Around us.

I feel like I’m the only one that truly watches those around him on the day to day. You notice a lot of things when you can just keep your mouth shut and watch others body languages.

You spend so much time thinking and planning and running a background reel of next steps. And suddenly, or not so suddenly, you wake up and realize you’ve changed. And they’ve changed. And the landscape you were so sure of looks different than you remembered.

It’s funny how life changed while I was busy…

Nice piece. I enjoyed reading the benefits laid out. I’ve always been a multi-project type guy and instead of fighting against my natural tendency to learn new things what I’ve realized is that there is simply no one size fits all. Searching for meaning and purpose in one’s life is very personal and those that tell you to “focus on one thing” may be…

life is poem

life is poem and so are we→ ***

science will never see.

Yes, you definitely are, keep doing.

This is kinda like my life’s M.O. Every now and again, one gets beleaguered with doubts on taking this path that seems rather unfocused and you question whether you’re not wasting your life. But deep down, I know I really can’t focus on one thing for an extended period. Thanks for this.

I think the word judgement has strayed from its original definition. I look at the dictionary and see that it can be a divine punishment, a simple decision, or a condemnation by an appointed authority such as a judge.

What I read in the foregoing is a choice to appoint oneself as the judge and hand down a condemnation, a…

Have you thought about happiness? What it really means to be happy? Is happiness defined as having a wonderful life devoid of pain and stress? Or is happiness achieved by overcoming many hardships and discovering the inner beauty of life?

We can discuss happiness in greater detail for multiple lifetimes and still not scratch…

Things that can not be fixed

Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

When hell visits us, we don’t get to escape grieving.

This time too shall pass.

Oh my fellow writer, I am inspired to continue daily, and write, as you have elloquently marked, the writing that makes me alive. I am finding my stride and am reminded of something Maya Angelou said about writing…”There is no greater agony than bearing the untold story inside of you”. When I read her book, I know why the caged bird sings, I…

Old is (NOT ALWAYS) Gold

I was overhearing few senior citizens at the park talking about the glorious past and their golden times for music, food and peace. That made me think is it really true?

Okay I get it. However lets leave the decade old scotch to counter my point.

I just can’t……

But this weekend i woke up early, and that was good decision..

He looked up at the stars as she did and asked

“Are you scared of death? I mean billions and billions of years later Noone will remember anything and we will all be forgotten. Doesn’t that scare you?”

She looked at the stars and said calmly

And then #love happened

Something inside her was broken.

A clueless orbit

Turning 24 isn't easy! Why? Well, I am clueless!

When I look around I see a couple of my friends are getting engaged with their loved ones, few of them are getting placed in their dream companies and a couple of them are just enjoying their life as for them YOLO (You Only…

Getting of a bouncy thing

Ok, so yesterday I was with my friend. We jumped on a trampoline and very lone time. When we got off, we tried to jump and it felt like the gravity pulled you down! But it went away and we could jump normal again!

I just saw the drawing and it made me laugh out loud cause it is freakin' perfect! I can just say ME TOO! I don’t know you, but I love you sister! Blessings and gratitude to you from me for sharing your story! How brave and courageous you truly are!!

NEVER SAY

Good Luck in the theater
Good Game during a no-hitter
But never forget to say: I LOVE YOU

Turn it all off. The computer, the phone, the doorbell. It’s probably scary to have nothing to do but think. And think some more. But I guess that’s what you have to start with, though. How can I find time to think, and why do I make it so hard?

I want to write a blog. Not to get 100's of readers but to record what matters to me in the world. This is not a diary though, I want to inspire myself and create a page of articles that (when in doubt) remind me of who I am and what I want to achieve.

To reveal your inner most thought and feelings is brave. May the coming year help us all to release and reveal our true selves. Unique and great read.

Ten

I was ten years old when Star Wars: Return of the Jedi came out. I went to see it with my sister, Myra and my computer geek brother, Mike. Now, 32 years later the characters from my childhood are back.

I swallowed a lump in my throat when that “galaxy far, far away” text ran through the screen…

Going through a similar struggle ..I’m 22.

To blazes with the cooking. I’d be up for visiting you for your secret stash of sherry! Seriously though, you may learn more in time about making the perfect dish but it’s the people who matter more than food. Just be you — it really doesn’t matter if that comes without a side serving of glazed carrots with cinnamon.

Tonight will be short.

A party. Friends, fun and missing her hard. I very much underappreciated her deep contributions to my soul’s enlightenment.

Our conversations were beyond anything I normally experience.

Keep fighting the good fight! This is wonderful work.

WOW. And yes; the human contact part…

During the past one year whom have you #inspired the most? #QuestionYourself

What a beautiful Santa story! You connected the human existence to the spiritual. The idea of what the winter season really means relates to “children of all ages”. We should all feel the wonder of the warm heart in what can be a cold world. Then perhaps we can truly see how our differences are not really different, just seen from another angle.

Always uncomfortable

I’ve always had this simple need to be challenged in my work life. I need the push so I place myself in situations that will stretch me and cause a change. And so it’s no real surprise to those who know me that I’m now a contractor working in China. I’m out here essentially alone doing work…

I find it interesting how these categories mirror the designations of classical plot structures (man v man, man v environment, etc.). The implication being that these trends transcend gaming affecting either all stories or life in general.

November 17th 2015

It feels like I’m treading the water. And what’s confusing is that I know how to swim, I do.
So why won’t I swim?

I tell the two people I should be lying to that I am not okay. They’re adventuring. Why can’t I let them adventure. Why can’t I…

You Sir, have put that thing in my head, into words. Thank you.

Often, we’re do blinded by the illusion of perfection that we lose sight of what’s important.

You deserve all the light my friend, I will keep sending it down that well, even if it doesn’t always reach the bottom I’ll never stop trying.

I’m about to take on what I feel may well be a huge rebranding project and this outlook might just be that breath of fresh air I need to set sail. Thank you so much for being so candid not only about your triumphs but also the difficult times. I also appreciate the encouragement to break some of the ‘stalwart’ branding rules and push the boundaries…

Who Has Inspired You? #QuestionYourself

So special forth the sun desire, live within the humble path while being elevated higher, desire of her smile like the southern essence. Never without blessing the dawn from dusk past, the lasting growth through turbulent paths brings joy upon face, the taste of success wouldn’t be warranted without her touch.

#QuestionYourself

Another one bites the dust!

December 20, 2015–24 Mile Weekend

As the weekend began I was so looking forward to the next few days. Is anyone ready for Christmas. I am! Simple Christmas for me. Just a few days away can you believe it. I will enjoy it for my son more than anything…

Well put, succinct and organised. As much as we inherently know these simple truth we still have to be reminded of them constantly.