or How I got into Martin Scorsese’s film on George Harrison without really trying
When I am in a dilemma, I do the newspaper test.
Depending on your perception, life can be indefinitely complicated. What really matters is the truth. Truth creates…
by Yann Girard
90% of my blog posts suck. An even bigger number of my podcast episodes suck (not my guests fault though). Same with my YouTube videos. And my books.
The other day, at a friend’s place, someone asked me, “Bro, do you get friend-zoned because you’re a teddy bear?”. HAHAHAHHAHAH.
As hard as that question made me laugh, I must tell you, it did get me thinking. Is being the nice guy the…
A quiet rain hits the roof of this house in which I no longer live. Its sound brings a certain peace. I have sheltered in this house during…
There’s a sense of duality in life for some of us. That may sound easy enough to grasp to you since the definition of dualism is “an…
Believe it or not, there is a chance that your jobs may soon be replaced!
7.197,70 km a Maiquetía
No era un día como cualquiera, llevaba esperando con muchas ansias que llegara el 23 de diciembre por mucho tiempo. La situación económica y social que se vive actualmente en mi país, Venezuela, no es fácil. Con 19 años soy parte de la generación de cerebros que deciden irse para encontrar…
2015 has been an interesting year, with expected things happenings and unplanned adventures. It has…
Yatchi Yan,Auckland, Operations
Never say no. Those were the three words that I have embodied at Zomato. It is because every opportunity that has been given to me, no matter how big or small…
Today I read Abby Norman’s Medium post on Coffeelicious where she shares with us her annual answers to Marcel Proust’s Personality Questionnaire which is revealing of our personality, self, and aspirations. I am coatailing this tradition and hope to enjoy seeing…
I am my own harshest critic. Still, I must admit that I have achieved some level of success in my life. I…
Después de mucho analizar y pensar en cosas que he hecho y dicho puedo decir lo siguiente:
Muchas veces he dicho innumerables veces las siguientes frases: Si paso de curso seré feliz, si me entro a la u seré feliz, si compro esos zapatos seré feliz y…
I saw this image pop up on Instagram last week and it’s been haunting me constantly (I…
When was the last time you went out dancing? Or stayed up late drinking wine, giggling, and singing along to Beauty & the Beast? When was the last time you dressed up and had a tea party with your friends? Most of…
A year before my sister Bethany died, I remember her telling me about this place. This place I never…
If i were to self reflect to find my flaw, I would have to say my most incriminating of all would be that I sometimes find myself thinking entirely too highly of myself. Almost to the point where I believe my mind was created for…
「當你往怪獸的方向看去，一段時間後，你會開始發出一樣的吼聲。當你往深淵看去，久了之後，你會深陷其中無法自拔。」
This year is coming to a close at top speed and I’m struggling to look back at it, wondering exactly how I’ve lived it. I’ve pondered countless times whether I’m living up to my own potential or even the potential that others see in me and driven myself in a worried mess. However the other day I got to…
FAILURE, DEATH & A CHANCE AT REDEMPTION. FOUR THINGS I LEARNED IN 2015 BREAKING EVERY START UP RECORD IN HISTORY.
FALL SEVEN TIMES STAND UP EIGHT
I don’t drink either and totally get it!
P.s. I’d date you….. ☺
Everything that exists has a purpose. An end that it is trying to achieve. A meaning which it represents. An idea which it upholds. Take all of this away from it, and it is akin to taking away its reason to exist (raison d’être is the phrase I…
Para español, presione 1
This is the third of an n-part series for annual reflections about what transpired during the last three hundred and sixty five days. In 2012, I wrote about a smorgasbord of topics including time travel and common…
Part 1
I’m having withdrawals.
It’s been two weeks since I’ve had sexual intercourse. For three straight months after I had lost my virginity I found myself craving to do it regularly. My partner and I use to stick to this two day period so…
Nothing is forever
We heart it @ sassy muffin
Nothing is forever. Things can change in an instant and your whole life plan can be…
I’m selfish. I already know that. There are things that I want, and things he’s uncomfortable with. There are some things that bend I ask for where he’ll bend over back, but when he says, “no,” to me, it’s like my whole world comes to a close. And it’s something…
[This is an experiment.]
Amazingly, it’s always before the dawn of another new year, the perfect time for retrospection pops in.
Surprisingly, many start to create endless bucket lists on the day before new year, which mostly remain unaccomplished throughout the year. This happens because your brain…
November 2, 2015
This was my first time and it hurt like hell! I can’t remember the last time I felt so much pain either ’cause shit, did i mention it hurt? But you know what they say, the first is always the worst. The worst part about it is not being able to capture the moment in my…
Go Online, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200
Online dating has been around for a while. You know when we were in high school/college the joke was ‘Oh we’ll put you on Shaadi.com!’ Shaadi is the Hindi word for Wedding, so literally we’ll put you on Wedding.com.
A 22-year old’s thoughts on the current state of things
There’s music in the rain,But it’s not a joyous noise.Both the blind and the deafCan tell when the country weeps.
Before joining the military at the age of nineteen I was lost. I had no idea where I wanted to go with my life. I was living on my…
Hide it, Anastasia. No one, must know.
As you have said, it is within the individual to define by association gentleness with weakness.
The issue with those who do, is that they by doing so, often deny themselves the right to be assertive. Firmly assertive.
If we can choose to be gentle, we can choose to be assertive, and we can choose…
It’s a simple word. People seem to use it a lot. Especially when talking about a person, using the word nice like it’s the only adjective you know.
How would you describe yourself? You probably seem to find a lot of negative things to say about you, and not so much of the positive side. Why…
I have made some pretty significant changes in the past few months — most notably, I have adopted new routines in order to live a healthier, more productive lifestyle. Specifically, I have morning and evening “chores” I do each day, and I have successfully implanted them so that I actually…
A new year is coming and there’s certainly something that changes.
Whether one believes it or not there is yet another year waiting for us just around the corner. There is…
It has been quite a long time since we started following the path provided traditionally to us mainly by our tutors,role models etc. Its pathetic to see no major innovations in any field rather than discoveries.Like Einsteins or Newtons work which we all…
Karen, I will mirror what most of the others have said, ‘A very well written visual of depression’. I have been there. I never thought I would — or even could — be there… but I was. It is a very scary place to be.
Out-of-control is the beginning wave that slowly explodes into fear. A fear, that if allowed to remain, takes…
some view their
life as an ocean
which is to say that
they never really learn how to swim
until they are pushed off a boat
i look upon my
Hello. Welcome to my basic introductory production of a blog that has sprung up due to me having too much time on my hands during this Winter-Break following my first semester of college.
6months ago I took this photo on a trip to #india, but I really didn’t think the shoot out. I have been wanting to post it for a while and didn’t know how to best to edit it, to make the story of the kids more pronounced, to best express the emotions I got as I interacted with them.
A man on a train, a seeker, was inflamed by the beauty of a woman’s face. Shock, desire, and delight all at once.
The title of this article might seem a bit stupid or off putting to everyone. How can I possibly make you happy? Maybe…
Al fin hoy tomé la determinación de dejarte. Ha sido un largo proceso de aceptación y de duelo. Hoy quiero enumerarte todas las razones por…
Are you unhappy because your significant other didn’t get you the Christmas present you wanted? Read on to find out why you’re probably destroying your own happiness.
I spent many a year looking down towards the ground and feeling tall, feeling the weight of my footstepsand the tremor of my fall.
And I saw myself in…
I’m not sure whether it’s the age or just this particular moment in my life, but I’ve been trying for some time now to…
First of all, this post I’ve chosen because I do not know myself how to break up if I am still in denial. I am in denial phase that is slowly transitioning to anger. Still, there’s a lot of work ahead to get to accept this sad fact and move on.
Nothing like a good ol’ Christmas family party to remind you of where society wants you to be in life. As 2015 winds…
I’ve always been passionate about understanding what makes great people great and applying the truths they embodied to make my little dent in the universe.
It’s hard for many people to believe that there are extraordinary things inside themselves, as well as others. I hope now, we…
Trust a wish in a well or from a shooting star Believe in yourself, you know who you are Fight for yourself and let no one define ya If you judge your life through someone else’s eyes Well then this should come to you as no surprise Whatever you see before you is not true reality but only lies Don’t let the voice inside your head, cloud…
In response to a reply from CamMi Pham, on her story, Why School Is the Best Advertising Agency.
Sadly, CamMi, I must agree with you.
Today’s Education System is NOT the education system initially begun, or envisioned through the early stages of this, the United States, began bringing education to…
I’m soooo sharing this with my girlfriend. She’ll make the funniest face as she reads it, she may even laugh or just smack in the back of the head…who knows, but it’ll be an interesting response for sure. I think I’ll share it shortly after work, when we are sitting together and relaxing. Not right after, because you know how we all are after work…
Our life. Our lives that we live. Our lives that we live, whether we our on our own or whether we our together: as friends and as family.
Our life. Brief it is and our breath. Our breath – in, out, in, out. The continuous movement of our breath. To breath in the goodness and to breath out the anxiety – the anxious, the…
by Yohann Dafeu
Fear is a good thing.
Every day we present you with a theme to get you writing. Today we challenge you to write a…
I knew that I loved you at that very specific moment. I knew I would wake up at the next morning and feel absolutely different. I could be either mad or feeling lonely. I would wake up and start remembering that amazing feeling, but I wouldn’t feel it. It would be a memory. I wanted to stay in that moment forever. That very first moment that I woke…
As I’ve been using it for a quite a few years (how about you?) I’ve finally learned not to become…
I'm a weirdo, a title conferred upon me by the masses of normal people around me following the culture of this small city.
"You shouldn't look for love!" "Its better being single" "you're still young anyway" "you're a…
The game began when I was sittingHunched down, my head between my kneesI was miserable, my tears uncontrollableCame tip toeing silently, Life peeked from behindAsking me to play hide and seek with herI was aghast, annoyed, I was hurt by herWhy was she so cheerful, playful and…
Hahahh this chica is a good writer! Making me laugh at her & myself at the same time. To degradation!
absence of leave
lonely leavesshivering breeze,stem-slender clinging,if only they knew
As a guy who founded 4 start-up’s I can attest directly to the fantasy. That being said entrepreneurs often thrive on risk, adventure and visions of grandeur. Otherwise what would be the point in taking a risk at all? There has to be something of subjective value in return and it’s the gratification of satisfying those traits that drive our behavior…
Kaikias in name does fiercely breathe shadowing fate; Belittling the stick of a figure so grossly contorted; Blatantly bleak prose spites destiny; Bearing the wretched soul who dares stand lone; Tipsily exuding the frailty of a teetering scale; Held…
“Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other…
She could feel her pulse quickening, breaths coming in hard and fast and a tightening in her chest. She wanted to run away from what was making her feel like she was about to collapse and fall away into a thousand pieces, but she couldn’t. What was frightening her was inside her- eating her up, prodding her with fear, menacing her. She wanted it to…
Hey everyone.. just exploring this new social medium.. My name is Ryan Patterson I’m 23 and I live in Syracuse Ny. Growing up I was big into skateboarding and electronics, I still…
Si voltò, lo guardò e gli disse che se voleva poteva pure andarsene. Certo, non lo disse con la fermezza necessaria per chi vuole giocare consapevolmente a questo gioco, gli occhi velati di lacrime, ma lo disse.
Era forte lei, era una di quelle cui la vita ha deciso di dare tutto o quasi. Era intelligente, simpatica…
We are in the midst of unsettling times as if surrounded by an evil we can neither see nor name, but sense it nonetheless. It can be easy to point fingers and just as hard to look inwardly at oneself for an answer. Perhaps, we are our own worse enemy, and the best we can do is to try to be better than ourselves. If so, maybe, it is not such a bad…
Every time as I take another breath , the other breathes Last — Can we stop further polluting
Don’t Burn Plastic — it leads to extinction of Human life
It made things easy and we have adopted to it instantly. Have we made a right Decision. As I walk in midst of streets near to my office I often find…
We were waiting in the checkout when I remembered. I don’t really snack, but every once in a while I do crave a little salt & crunch. As I…
Here’s the before. Everyone tends to focus on the results, the after, the achievement, the happy ending — what about the struggles? the true troughs that we’ve been through to get there?
I will be completely transparent. I will try my best to document everything.
@raj16993 I know that’s the common belief but I suppose this is written from a person’s perspective who has accepted that. I guess that’s what makes it beautiful. We always look for people who will be similar to us or who will get us but maybe the most successful unions are those where people spend the rest of their lives trying to figure the other one out.
The new year is upon us this week. What does this mean to you?
To me 2016 is only a number.
The older I get I realize that the time we have is all perceived value.
the inevitability of death…
i knowu knowwe ALL know of the end…
the howthe whenespecially the why…..i cry
I took my brother in law with me just in case I couldn’t drive home.He cleaned up whatever hair was around my pelvis that I hadn’t shaved off.Getting this vasectomy was a choice we made when we were pregnant in ‘96.He asked me if I was interested in watching. I was.He searched around and found the tube on the…
I see my own reflection in your words and I think I like my self a little bit more now.
They always think this is the case.
Yeah you right. Its like when I started to lift weights to gain power. I sucked and ached. For a good while I quit but then would try again. To this day I continue to get under load and work (15 yrs so far). This reminds me that continuous and progressive hard work, fighting tooth and nail to overcome the previous load of the movement or to even…
Wow, Never looked at it this way. It’s like a new perspective
Taking my coffee …
Leave to my mind take in the light of the morning, I see the sky and sing is my body. As I take the day and come new, rest days are — we think — but it takes work to reflect and look at what we did this year that is about to leave; we take very seriously the time limits we put: years, days, hours, bla bla…
beautiful write….
enjoyed it…..and i loved the picture. ..i love the myth of a unicorn……beautiful you keep your life extended sister in your heart…
your write honors her…
namaste
I am the seed of that which I shall become.
‘From the earth We created you, into it We shall return you, and from it We shall raise you a second time.’
Awwwww I loved it Linda. I had quit my job two months ago. I’d love to share how I’ve grown from it also. ☺ Thank your for your time and sharing your experiences.
Curl up long enough,
and the couch becomes the prison.
“You Can’t Teach an Old Dog a new trick”. Telling the world “Thank you" for kicking me in the ass and make me pay for It in the same breath, doesn’t set well in a mind of my own neither does “sorry". Politeness is Over-rated, Over-expanded, Over-stretched, Over-Done!
The boy lay in bed contemplating what it means to have a perfect moment. Was it that feeling of weightlessness…? Of having nothing to look forward to and an entire journey to look back upon? Or that blissful clarity of the senses that accompanies a couple of icy drinks? Perhaps he will never know, but imagining the possibilities is a good start.
Many feel the need to rest as if ten minutes on the couch just “catching your breathe” is going to make life so much easier, i think not. Just get up, walk it off,crawl it off, jump…
I can recall at least 5 situations where I chose to be a p***y and didn’t come up and talk to someone. I regret every single one. The reverse is true: I regret 0 of the times I DID walk over.
Awful feelings part .
After a long time ago I met with my first love . And my best friend ever . He was really high. And we just laugh about everything . The problem during meeting I scared to touch him . I scared to touch my closest part .
I had this new girlfriend for a few months now and I was committed.My sons mother had me on the phone and told me she loved me, I said me too and hung up.Me too, what? She said she loved me and I said me too.Try to explain that to a new girlfriend.I just wanna keep her happy so I can see my son.She was mad and…
Really inspiring it has got me thinking….what can i do to help those in need…
I did one of those programming early years of my life. Help me a lot, but the same time when they trying to please you and jobs is a little bit harder for them. because they have so many things to do. The school that I went to. I have to pay around $35,000. Being dyslexic they didn’t understand what was my problem. this is one of the things that I am glad that I did . Betweentheyears
This is spot on.
In a creative capacity, it’s usually OUTSIDE of our comfort zone , when we can hit the bullseye (s).
That takes guts and a lot of ENERGY to push the idea (s) to completion and release, because you’ll be pushing through you own inertia to break the inner ‘red tape’.
HAWAII - Blick ins Tagebuch: What’s boiling inside of me?
The children cried as the darkness ate the light.
Yes, if its something you’d be proud if the whole world knew, then it’s passed else otherwise
How sweetly and honestly described years of pain and happiness being portrayed in words.
Fantastic
1) “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
2) “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” — John A. Shedd
I love your story bro. Inspiring!
Discovery
I found here ， Maybe im a new guy here , but will be old . humanity good at finding so im ….
When was the last time you stargazed
And truth be told you were already amazed
Someone left your heart bright and blazed
Someone left your mind drowned and dazed
disturbingly beautiful….
Been the done that…got some thoughts re: such as this. We shall compare notes
In the middle of things,This is where you can make a difference.Can you get unstuck & lift the world today?
What “she” brought into “her” this is unique wording
Lesson learned today: nothing ever is easier with the kids. Thinking, “oh, the kids will help, so it won’t be too much work” is a form of self-deceit; they will help, yeah, but…
Today is the first day I try to write something, I don`t know what will happen later, I`m glad to find some pleasures in writing.
Moving On
Being in stressful and irritating environments with people who are very small minded and narrow sighted can be very overwhelming at times. It is truly hard to love life when those who are around you cannot just let go and be free from the standards of which the majority sets. Living in the dark and in fear of being…
I’m used to hold my pillow when the sorrows bite
When my feelings crash and burn after a failed flight
But no, not tonight.
I’m used to have an empty stare when happiness is out of sight
Sam.
In his most melancholic and ailing state, I realized how much he means to me.
What’s a wedding daydream without seeing him walk me down that seemingly cumbersome isle with his relentless touch and mannish chest holding in all the tears and flashing that calm smile that says, “I’m scared. But…
I believe that most of the time life is good. Of course, we all know that life has its moment. I color, work in my workbook and dance quite a bit. My motto is live, laugh, love. I am happily married to my best friend of 19 years. We have only been married for a little less than 7 years. We have had rough times, but mostly we have been happy. All for now. Just remember live, laugh, love.
Choices are made in every minute of every second of everyday of our lives.
We are made up of many.Its like a two dimensional entity, a split personality, the other dictating another from the other. Two different sides of yourself or even…
I can remember one or two visions of my earliest memories. He was tall and handsome. I remember him standing there in a tiny bathroom, shaving. There was a rack of ties to his left, just inside the door. He had a chair in the living room. To his right side there was a huge ashtray stand with…
