You probably have this impression stuck in your head:
“Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days” (John 2:19)
Долго я ходил вокруг этой закладки. Смотрел на слово “любовь”. Любовался восклицательным знаком. И не решался ничего написать. Мысли не складывались в какие-то понятные и чёткие темы. Не появлялось главной идеи. Я смотрел внутрь и думал, что никогда не напишу заметку “про любовь”. Но сейчас…
Man is a social animal. We have always talked about relationships. Relationships are critical for…
Today is my 43rd Birthday. For the last two years I’ve written advice to my younger self on my birthday…
-Foreign Nations to cancel any trade deals
Bukan. Ini bukan tanggal jadian. Story ini bukan tentang kisah cinta seorang laki-laki yang ditinggal pergi perempuannya. Ini juga bukan tentang jumlah…
When you’re poor there are things you have to get good at. Like asking for things (food mostly, from…
“You know what you should do don’t you?”
I am really dumb. My friendships are getting worse because I did something fucking stupid. I am removed from my friend group. I am alone. I don’t have a lot of people to talk to. I feel like most of my friends are pretending to like me…
If only it were that simple, right?
It’s August, which means its time to gear for another school year! This is for the incoming freshmen out there…
Lessons on patriarchy during cancer care
If you have ever been in a classroom, you might have noticed a few students who are struggling to keep up with…
Last weekend I had the pleasure to spend two wonderful days in Prague, the capital of the Czech…
Death is always a surprise. No one expects it. Not even terminal patients think they are going to die in a day or two. In a week, maybe. But only when this particular week is the next week.
I was up late last night in a whisky haze. I tried to poke fun at my stress.
I guess it’s part and parcel that this mug should express himself like an asshole. But it’s the 30th or 31st and I couldn’t afford a hearse. I can’t afford to die. Give…
Por Victoria147
Part of it might’ve been genetics. Part of it might’ve been the environment. But a lot of it was through…
I just love the expression “dumb shit” that Gary Vaynerchuk uses to describe all the stuff we buy for absolutely no reasons. I wasn’t going to talk about this today, since I am still in my “detox” journey of spending money for no reason. To make it clear, I use to…
I have missed loveA lotAs I always let goBut with you it’s differentAnd I have hopeThat something will happenBetween usBecause I believe thatYou areThe love of my life
IN THE VAN OUT OF THE VAN
“Alayne, roll the window and take a few pictures,” Jane commanded as we drove by an incredible scenic view in Ribeira Grande…
We all remember those high school and university days filled with tests, standardized…
Why are we here? What are we doing? What’s our purpose? These eternal questions have seemed to…
It had been more than 20 years since the last time I had been there and the place was essentially the same: the same lonely highway, the same white rock gravel drive, the same lake with the hunting cabin, the same run down ranch house miles from anything. Not sure why I was…
“This experiment [The Push] wasn’t about who pushed and who didn’t. The point was it…
"Ibukun you can do it, why don’t you just apply?", "Ib give it a try, they might just pick you". These are statements my family used to say to me all the time, whenever there was an opportunity for me develop myself. I would hear these words but my mind would automatically go into "Fear Mode". What…
No one knows where their life is going or what questions Alex Trebek is going to ask on Jeopardy, right? It might not be obvious at first, but any…
We live in the day and age of the hyper plan. With one click, everything you’ve ever wanted to know about your future vacation locale is at your disposal. You can’t feel it or smell it or get a sense of the locals, but @tastytravelz123 said to make sure you try the…
A lot can happen in a year and this year my dad died. It’s fair to say that the day we buried him I…
I mentioned that August would begin with a bang and my own world did just that a little early.
10 Things You Should Know About Writing A Will by NEMWill
Sometimes when you are sitting on a chair, thinking about your life and your family, you might think about how your assets will be inherited by them. Will it be an easy process or will it be a really hard process for them to inherit what rightfully belongs to them…
I’m alone at my house, stuck with my memories, there’s only one thing to do…
It is a very busy world. A world where anything that might be interesting is broadcasted to the…
Failure is an unique experience that travels with us nearly everywhere we go. From the workplace to home, it is an integral…
Change is the only constant. This small sentence holds the core of our life and…
We all go through many times in our lives where we exercise all kinds of different, and…
Plastic Love Melts, Real Love Doesn’t
Dear men,
Throwing money around is the kind of behaviour that attracts girls with crass and repels girls with class. If you want your money to attract the best girls to you, then use it to develop yourself. Dress well, read well and behave well. You see, plastic…
If you have ever tried to establish a new habit you will know the following…
Hello again! Well last article https://bit.ly/2NUo7xA was flop show after the successful beginning so I am humbled now or am I?
Here’s a quick task for you before you just close this and save those precious 3 minutes of your life which are going to be utilized by…
Welcome to the ‘dog days’ or summer. August is an incredible month that brings warmth, summer fun and BBQ’s. It is…
I’m not reading other responses before this retort.
THIS RETORT IS GENERAL AND NOT DIRECTED AT ANY ONE PARTICULAR PERSON.
I looked up the definition of Cis and Cisgender. Cis are just two atoms that share the same plane of existence. Cisgender has a foolishly long and complicated definition. Here’s…
I’m pretty sure I had lots of “friends” at one time. Lemme take you back about 8 years or so ago and tell the…
Tougher than nails, yet broken into pieces. My story.
Not unlike an average person, I have a story to be told. However, unlike an average person, I decided to start a blog in hopes to let the few people who might stumble on my page read about it. I must warn you though, I will hold nothing back. Right or wrong, I will…
AIREBALL.
There was a time when really only sports mattered to so many. Some were more fortunate than others and had their careers carry on into the pros, but many of us had our competitive sports days end in high school or college. There is so much…
Photo credits: Ifunanya Anih
I really hate cell phones.
Leadership is currently one of the most discussed topics. There is an incredible amount of research being done on…
Reality is science — proven, in your…
Higher education has always been in the back of my mind since I’ve graduated college, but I was also avoiding it. My sister went to law school and ever since I can remember going to law school was my goal too. For some reason though once I actually got to the point of making law school…
“All that is gold does not glitter; just as not all…
You’re moving through life right now, and you will continue to do so until the day your heart stops and you die. That’s it. That’s reality. And at its most basic form, that is the journey of life.
You come into the world and are suddenly hit with sounds, colors, lights, voices, smells, uncomfortable sensations, and…
My Two Cents
My most favorite thing to do in a restaurant has always been to watch other people regardless of if I am on my own or accompanied by other people. There are times when I quietly watch the person who is accompanying me as well. Don’t take me for a creepy stalker and this certainly is not a story about stalking…
May 5, 2018.
I am recovering “to do list” writer too. I still have my lists (my security blanket just in case I forgot something.) but I don’t get anxious about my list or not checking sth. of that list. Instead, as you mentioned I schedule a time to do tasks and put another task on hold to focus on what I’m doing at the moment. It saves time and energy in the long run.
Running a successful business is nothing less than a race…
As our life progresses, it only becomes complicated with the passage of time. Be it…
Unimaginable lust, for fear and the idolatry of hate,
The worst mistake I have ever made was impregnating someone I’m not prepared to spend the rest of my life with.
Hey Kris. Powerful piece (and I do like the reruns).
While I agree with you about the fundamentals of this argument, I want to point out the flipside. An advertisement on the subway here in NYC for social services for the domestically abused and violated points out that, even if the simple decision is to leave, leaving isn’t…
This is a glimpse of my 10 years of wonder
All too familiar
Today I have no words. Only pain. Tomorrow I will endeavor to carve my thoughts from the searing heat forging my sadness. For today, this is all I can muster.
Today’s Gracious Gratitude. I am grateful for:
When I was 17 I worked as a nanny for a wealthy family in my town. As someone who hadn’t grown up with money, I was initially…
I really like this letter/article. You make a good point. I don’t know how I never made the connection before.
Movement.
Staying in motion.
I don’t know why, but my mind went to sharks. If they stop moving they die. When we stop moving, we wither away until we die.
It should have rained that nightSome how thunder would have been fittingpain, anger, tempers, loveA strange mix to…
Friend, amigo, freund, amico…no matter how you might say it or in what country you live, we are all blessed to have a…
You’re an inspiration. Thought this post was just about financials and started to drift off, then I became gobsmacked at the way you suggest honing the tiny changes, then kept on reading.
I applied for a new job last night, writing the expression of interest as if I already had that placement. Said I was grateful for the…
I have had a fairly unconventional education and career path. It certainly wasn’t planned. Actually, my…
I was and I am short of words to describe that place. But I have penned down enough about that day.
After having a refreshingly motivated conversation with Sir, I decided to return. He offered me to have lunch in the canteen but I refused. I…
My father knows very little about job-hunting, which fields offer more job opportunities and are more promising, and how to…
We all want to live a happy and fulfilled life.
We all want to have meaningful relationships.
We all want an exciting life instead of a boring life.
How everything started? Yes it started rough and rugged. I keep coming and keep on repeating. Keep on fighting not quitting.
Should I quit? Will you hold me. Fight for me? For us?
Yes i am selfish. So selfish. What’s mine is mine and who owns me owns me. If it’s me and you then it should be just me…
Is it not that our tales are twined in the essence of fate?
For my husband and I, the past decade+ was filled with pregnancies, diapers, miscarriages…
Lately I’ve been fixated on rocking chairs or gliders. I found myself sifting through websites rating these chairs one weekend for no other reason than I like them… dare I say LOVE them. And well, full disclosure, I find them exceptionally comfortable and stress relieving. If I had the cash, I’d waltz…
Sigh. It’s August.
There’s something about it being August that increases my will to be…
Are you familiar with Hicks’ Law?
When you first laid eyes on me you saw something no one else could see.
Have you ever stopped to think about whether or not the world we live is what it is, or if it’s just all something that we see in our mind?
Before I start to explain why I believe the world is just a figment of my imagination I want to give a little…
Choose your own adventure! Swimming at Turtle Bay in Maui. The tide was so strong, and i was…
It has certainly been a while.
Have you ever been to a McDonald’s in ManhattanAnd seen the temporarily embarrassed…
On your path to build your empire, at times life would beat you to your keens. In that moment rather than giving up, scratch the…
Of course you’re not going to get ahead when all you do is to read, watch or listen to the bestsellers.
Because millions of other people are already doing this exact same thing.
Since when her eyes have been retracting her tearsas they float,and a buoyant glimmer tries to take a shapeyet to be…
I realized this morning how much I hate wasting time. It’s one thing to be mildly frustrated about…
I came up with a theory of why people like doughnuts,
but there was a hole in it.
Being a career mom, business owner,working full time and also a full time mommy has its challenges. My son and I leave…
七月三十
上週一，早上進辦公室，發現桌上有封牛皮信封，正面用奇異筆寫了個小巧的「白」，背面沒有密合起來。是一張小卡片，幾個蠟筆風格的玩具總動員人物圍繞著ＴＨＡＮＫ…
Life is indeed complex. Every day we lurch into an abyss of decisions, systems and interaction. The plot of life seems to yield unending plot holes. Yet, in all of this feudal catastrophe, we try to understand life’s plot. Wait, Pause, Listen!
She steals up to my side quietly as I sit by the window, watching the evening shadows fade. Stray sounds of life outside come in through the…
Luken: A poem to my son
Dear Luken,
I love that name:
I wonderfuck.
I keep editing stuff as I think it can get better and more clear.
So, not easy for, not easy for me. We’ll all togehter.
I feel for the old woman selling fried yam and pomo near my workplace who has the habit of kneeling down for customers younger than…
Much of this is spot-on, but this argument goes too far in places. Discrediting experience is sheer folly: it allows us to anticipate problems and challenges and, as the saying goes, know what we don’t know. A child leading armies? Perhaps that’s why the US is the only developed nation that allows individuals not old enough to vote, let alone drink…
Disclaimer-Captain DIY and DIYtoFI.blog highly recommend exercising extreme caution when…
Two nights ago, there was a summer thunderstorm, the kind the makes your house shake. I took the time to watch the…
Human beings can be prideful. We want to know everything, and if we don’t, we at least want others to…
I don’t know what it takes to find yourself.
I’ve got something to confess to you.
Tell me oh sober nights,How you keep track of These dances of the moth, Upon the grandeur of your silence, And of…
As a writer, it’s easy for me to wake up everyday and proceed to think, “Today, I want to write because I…
Empty.That’s how I feel. Hollow.I have nothing left to give.
Thank You
For… loving her
There have been so many bridgesSo many that I have burnedNever sure of the path to takeNot knowing the right course to followI…
I’m doing this because I feel like it helps me ease my mind. I’m doing this for me, for the most inner part of this “me.” The idea is simple: “If my mind is busy thinking things I don’t want, just write them down somewhere and be done with them.” Is this a…
I think it’s funny how I can sit on the bathroom floor crying my eyes out begging god to make me feel better and then dry my tears and walk out like nothing ever happened. No one truly know how you feel on the inside. They don’t know how you’re holding on by a thread telling yourself every minute that it’s…
I belong to a generation, who has long time ago forgotten the true meaning of fun or spending quality time with family. People have become more like robots. Why is that so? Has someone ever thought about it? Let’s talk about it!
Do not allow those who talk rubbish about you to affect you. To tarnish your ego or your self respect.
Do not let someone else’s opinion form your mentality.
Unfortunately not all humans know how to share their opinions in a respectful manner and…
Do you really need the same context to relive a few memories?Or are you not enough to feel happy being there at the same place. Why are we always looking out for sadness in every moment? But if there was no sadness I wouldn’t be writing. Can we sometimes…
I would not dare to speak except in love
Money > Happinees?
It’s commonly said, money can buy happiness. Is it true?
Sex is an absurdly overrated phenomenon among human beings. People are overwhelmed by their ideas and fantasies about sex. This happens because…
Why do you stay? I’m not special. Because I believe in you. More than you respect yourself?
Powerful and honest as always. Good to see you Tre.
My 2 cents:
The deeper that sorrow curves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran — The Prophet
If we replace sorrow and joy with heartbreak and love, this leaves us with the…
As we contemplate making changes in our lives, we often encounter roadblocks that keep us in place, unable…
Weeks ago,I started this same challenge when I took 2 bottles of Coke one after that other, didn’t complete my 30days but my results were satisfying because I can’t remember the last time I took Coke.
On my first day, I went to different places and got back from work with 1 bottle of Coke, 2pespi, have it out just to avoid…
I will always look for words to help me find my way out of the weeds.I don’t always write poetry. I don’t always write stories.Many times I find myself writing lines of absolute nonsensemaybe because nonsensical is all I’ve ever really felt.
Have you ever just felt nothing? Not in a sense where you feel as though you are nothing, but rather you can’t muster up enough motivation to even produce a feeling? It happens to me a lot. Sometimes, it’s just boredom and a general disinterest in anything, other times I’m so overwhelmed by all the stuff I could/should be doing that my mind flatlines…
Driving around in a Ferrari is not my thing, well, to be honest, I will never afford one and I am not into sports cars driving on…
Today I moved in.
It was easy.
Center Stage
She sits in the middle every day of her life,
Just as the seeds surrounded by its pedals.
Does she move?
Does she want to move?
We all know first is worst,
Hope: The Strongest Force
Hope to me is arguably one of the most beautiful forces on Earth. It gives people the peace of mind that something better is to come, and especially for those who are…
August 1, 2018
My cousin was about to move out in our aunt’s house since they are not much in good terms. The problem, however, is that the apartment that she would’ve moved to is not yet ready for moving in since my cousin wasn’t able to fix the necessary…
…why are you fussing at yourself with me in front of it?
Experience
Human experience is based on the five senses and what happens inside of us is completely unknown. It’s internal journey, which happens within us, which is based on our experience, which is happening by our 5 senses.
I couldn’t have said it any better, Mukundarajan V N!
I had the privilege and honor working full time for Jane. I opened the door and entered her room. Only to find her laying and struggling on her bed as she tried to get up. Her mouth was blowing bubbles of air while her one arm was just fluttering around in circles. As I looked upon her face, I saw her…
It is going to be okayOr so you sayI’ll be fineThat’s what you keep telling me
I want to believe youDon’t get me wrongI really want to believe what you say
Create? Contribute?Comfort? Improve the world?Exceed expectations? Fly?Maybe it’s time to answer the question…then isn’t the rest easy?
Fall in Love
Today, decide to fall in love, and I am no talking about a person. Fall in love with a book that makes you cry, a song that makes you want to dance, fall in love with yourself. Find something that makes you want to wake up everyday with a smile in your face, it can be the sun, the rain, the birds or even the…
At the stage where you are relaxing the muscles in that leg, look at that knee, acknowledge the presence of the pain as an effect of the healing taking place, and then move on.
I sometimes will mentally “wrap” the pain to keep it contained to the location. If I find it intruding elsewhere, I “move” it back to where it…
August 01, 2018
TO GIVE IT A CHANCE
Much of my life I’ve been picky about the things I like. Whether its food or music or clothing, I stuck to what I really liked and that was it. But as we grow so do our interests and this is ok. New times…
People say the best — laid plans often go awry because no matter how detailed the preparation, a plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To doom a plan to failure and the perpetrator along with it.
Where I’’ll find my drugs? I just open my computer and STOP!
What a hell are you doin’? You’re freaky?
Where Paths Converge
I don’t write these to give sympathy. I don’t write these to demonstrate empathy.
We write these so others will know that their journey is unique.
Unique but not so different.
