All life needs water. Because of this, it is no surprise that life on Earth began in…
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.” — C.S. Lewis
“Old men always advise the young to save money. This is bad advice. Invest in yourself…
I’d like to share this snippet from a drama series I have been playing catch up with on Netflix during the weekends. See if you can find the episode online. It’s from the last few minutes of Madam Secretary, Season 2 Episode 23.
It happened on a hot summer night in July.
Despite my early and naive attempt to control everything, I have come to accept that…
Featuring the well known warp drive.
Last year at this time, I was finishing up my graduate thesis for my political…
Sam Cooke wrote the song that begins with this line in 1960, and a procession of diverse artists have…
This is a slightly modified version of a letter I wrote to my little brother recently. He said he found it helpful — right before he…
I’ve been reflecting on life a bit lately. Age does that :)
Mine’s been seriously gritty and a bit messy at times and I haven’t always made the best decisions. But age and the scars of experience teach you all you ever need to know in the end (funny thing is the…
Dalam istilah medis, siklus haid yang memanjang dikenal dengan oligomenorhea. Ini merupakan…
一位朋友打趣說道，我與他相同都有著自由的靈魂，都屬於比較任性妄為喜愛冒險犯難的人。聽完後，我一直覺得“自由的靈魂”這個詞彙饒富意思。
After a string of winning trades and seeing your account build higher, it is…
So true.
Three years ago, I fell into a deep awareness of my body and what goes into it—and what doesn’t. My eating, or lack thereof, affected my depression and anxiety, which affected my eating. It was a vicious cycle. This happened…
The Law of Least Effort is the fourth of Deepak Chopra’s spiritual laws, based on the observation that…
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
“To change your flight, it will either be $350 economy to Boston or $475 Business class to Providence,” Eduardo from Fall River who…
The girl in the picture Up on the wallOh so hot oh so tallI want her by my side While I glide and slideThrough her ups and…
Letting Go
Letting Go; is it easier said than done? May be yes! Yet, that is the best way to move forward in life. We can all do it, provided we choose to…
At 6 and 7 and 8, I took care of my 2 brothers and twin sisters while my mother laid passed out from a drug and alcohol…
Life is basically one long and exhausting tragedy that always points us one way or the other in the same direction: the…
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“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Maintenance.”
…
The problem for a lot of people is that they don’t really know what they want. They have vague desire: to…
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom…Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda.
Karma: Its a very loosely used word. Each and every other day we keep blaming our Karma when…
Previously:
I looked up at the sky — the ever changing sky — and all I saw was blue. Not the vivid…
We are continually talking about how time flies, how the weekend went by so fast, did it? Or…
Open letter to social media advertising Gods.
Here’s a new model for social media advertising — show me what I want! If you do that, I will work with you, I’ll cooperate. It will be a beautiful friendship. The current advertising model doesn’t work. We all know that. If I search for a flight to Barcelona, please do not show…
In 1935, Dupont promised they’d bring us better living through chemistry. Today, the phrase is used…
This story is one in a series that follows the progression of Dana’s latest PCS. In an effort…
Wouldn’t it be great to worry less and just take more action to get what you want?
I have a lot of ideas that I want to write.
Black and white, dusk and dawn, ebb and flow, zero control. And yet I fight.
Day 125: 8/3/2018
Waking up on time at 7.30, I then did not work or even try to force myself to. Though at the back of my mind, I knew that I had to finish the research method section I have been working tirelessly for the past 5 days and it was due today…
Author: Fiona Porch
By societal standards, as a graduate and 21 year old woman this should mean I am an adult. But I…
Is that it’s just that, luck…
That you can’t really do anything about it.
That all you can do is to just wait for things to happen.
The subtle differenceThe on-going effortThe daily affirmationThe putting someone else first
Kiiinnng! (insidejoke — Norma Cassidy’s voice)
When I started my first blog in 2008, the only digital medium I had was a Broadband connection which can barely load a 480p video without…
It’s not the rocket ride up Jacob’s Ladderthat does it. Nor is it the lunar landingon the surface of accomplishment…
“What can I learn from this? What will I do next…
Return to Self
I see a theme happening. Where Women have been holding on for so long. Taking care of it all. Neglecting to take care of themselves but now…
Those days she came,and whispered in my earsbreak all the prisons,rub all the…
THERE IS A TRUST1 Timothy 6:20 KJVO Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
The steps of human development are as such:
Infant->Toddler->Child->Adolescent->Adult.
Many people agree that this is a model for how people should track their lives. However, many feel that the jump from adolescence…
So I left you with our future plans seeming to be delayed even further because Jesse didn’t get into the 2009 Fall semester at Bob Jones University. Shortly after we got that news we decided to make a day trip to the New Jersey Shore. We would have…
What is most important for a human in his life? Think about this, maybe you know the answer. Because the more complex and strong this question seems, the answer is as simple, direct and appropriate as you can give with no research and deep…
Do you ever feel awake? I don’t mean rising in the morning, I mean looking into…
I thought it was like a blanket, weighing me down, until I realized that heavy blankets are a thing, which I ordered one of…
Sometimes I wonder that
this life
has been a series of episodes
where you could decide what shows, what genre, you want to enjoy.
It feels like I’ve lost my voice
I read the last few things I wrote
“That’s the last thing that should be on your mind, the absolute furthest thing.”…
The one inevitable thing and Everyone’s biggest nightmare is death. Different religions and different philosophies have their own understanding of death. The great Mark Twain says “There are two most important days in your life and that is the day you are born…
More than one hundred years ago, the wave of technology prevailed in the world, and…
THE RESPONSE TO THE ROADMAN’S ADVICE 1 ONCE HE READ MY MEDIUM PIECE
Roadman mentor 🤣😂🤦🏾♂🤦🏾♂🤦🏾♂..
We all have different missions in life Jef! Yours is building the young in the community and it’s very admirable and makes me respect you a lot! And your people skills are second to none.
When I was a teenager, I wrote my heart out. I expressed my pain through writing. I didn’t care who read it and I didn’t care how horribly written it was. Some where along the way, I lost it, I was ashamed because I was terrible at grammar. And my outlet was gone. Today, In trauma therapy, I…
I’ve been trying to collaborate with my college bud Paolo for a shoot ever since we were still in the university. Finally, after two years since…
Life is short, they say. Live it to the full, they tell us. You only have one life, make the most of it.
So entertaining and enlightening…ridiculous that it wasn’t accepted. Sharing with my grandson…who loved karate at first, but doesn’t seem to want to go now.
I went to see Mamma Mia 2 at the weekend, with two of my friends from university. I have reconnected with them quite recently, and am really pleased to have them back in my support system. They’re fab.
Since I had shared in my previous two stories about me getting a job and my thoughts about it, I should also share the things that come with it. My job needs me to shift to a new metropolitan city, renowned as the Silicon valley of India. Although my job isn’t something to do with the entitled position…
On my mind is the image of a gatekeeper with a megaphone. Going on and on about what the arts…
Sometimes I amaze myself! Other times…
I was driving one day and lost in my thoughts as usual. Thinking about life. What life is? What is it’s reality. How can I understand life better. And suddenly, an idea came to my mind and after some analysis, I was able to conclude that life is just like a traffic. We can understand its reality…
After spending multiple hours reviewing this site, the grade I will give it is 2 stars out of 10. The only reason I feel it deserves 2 stars is that the resume and interview section is good. Every else is regurgitated from other sources and painfully…
There are basically three phases of Stress:
There is one thing that I think we should upgrade because it’s getting kind of old…
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”
Meandering through the depth of a dream,I stumbled upon an imageOf a person that was meSome years ago,Lost and stuck in dreams that weren’t…
Fear, anger and shame are there all the time.
They, like other emotions, can both drive or hinder our progress.
Strong and clever women AND men are not those who don’t experience those emotions.
They are those who are driven by those emotions to the right goals and decisions.
Le stagioni dell’Anima — L’Estate
di Lorenza Girotti
I’m not sure they’re right.
As actors, we were always told to turn pre-performance nerves into butterflies of excitement. Moving on from this –I’ve gone…
It’s been an odd two days. I got caught in biblical downpours twice. In two days.
Day is too hot to swim. Night is great and the temperature is comfortable for us. We swim at night, enjoying the world of two. Suddenly, you showed up. You brought a lot of tourists to visit the intertidal zone and kept talking about the life here. How could you think that you know about us more than me…
我想不少人都會究竟是要在台中買屋和租屋的困惑，畢竟隨著台灣房地產市場房價的水漲船高，現在即使想在台中地區買屋都是不容易的一件事，而且買房要花費的金額可說是一筆鉅款，不少人也需要因此貸款買房，到時候所要背負的房貸壓力，也是讓不少年輕人較無法承受。下面分享幾個買屋…
I will never forget the day when my Papa died and that was in 1995.
He was the first close death in my family. It may have been more than 20 years ago but it can feel like yesterday if a memory comes rushing back.
Dear Jessica Brennan,
English poet, John Lyly is credited with first expressing the sentiment “All is fair in love and war” in 1579. He said it slightly differently. In Euphues (you-few-ease): The Anatomy of Wyt, he said, “The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.” The…
Before I started this article I thought “Okay, this will be short but intense.” — A fertilizer for my growth — a brief…
Twenty-seven years ago this morning I woke up hungover for the last time. The plan was to end my life. Alcohol had convinced me that I had nothing to live for.
There is a man living in the Green Island and operate a B&B. His name is Dé gē (德哥), a happy fisherman. In…
The Best Things in Life Are Free.
If we’re right, how come we’re losing so much?
Originally posted on BEHERE
Best thing I did to enjoy Medium more was talk with one new person a week Jonathan Greene
Btw why daily for an hour?
From my experience one or two a week was enough to look forward to it and not enough for it to bug me. Same goes for my writing I guess. I tried the daily in both and it felt like work.
We’re busy.
Most of the time.
We don’t have enough time.
We don’t have enough money.
Hold on to your panties… It could get scary.
dreams are big
and
dreams are bold
—
but most dreams
start
with one step
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Sitting in my apartment On a warm Summer’s evening.
It will come the day when all your sickness turns into happiness.
Some of your prayers will be answered.
All of your needs will be completed.
There is an aching in my heart.
It comes in part from missing my family, but mostly because I feel misunderstood. I wrote here because I can be alone with my thoughts.
I confess that when a plate of eggs is placed in front of me, I can’t help but eat…
This essay is a note to my future self.
2 months from now, when I am back in school, life will be mentally challenging. It will probably be one of the “harder” phases of my life — in which I will need to endure extreme social / professional pressure.
Every single time, I got one question to ask myself:
I’m not Broken
She says
Some puzzle
There are lots of noisy environments in life in which we are expected to learn. Classrooms filled with students can have a buzz consisting of background noise from the outside or from ventilation as well as the hum of conversations going…
I just wrote this email to my small list of subscribers. Enjoy!
…And all around the city you see the walking wounded and the living dead…
My name is Sophie. I work in Alumni Relations at a notable Canadian University. I like my job, I love my colleagues. I’m lucky and I’m happy. I’m in my late twenties and have been in the workforce for about four years.
Today is the best day of your life.
When a day, you sit on a chair and dreaming.
I always had believed that the “LIKE” of a person may change except somethings which are inbuilt in you. Those somethings form the essential elements…
Most of us care too much about what others think. I am going to talk to you today about why this behavior is not healthy, and what can be done to fight against this need for social validation.
At nineteen
I learned
5:42
Eyes locked on to a book
.Crickets . Oil . Pillow Case . Sour
I stumble across the page .
A sharp feeling in my mind. .
It is Friday
Strip 126 of #TheAdultManual
Oh sweet little bird came and found me..
In the long night surprising how I see
This huge wondrous world...
Don’t wanna know truth
Dont wanna know how you feel
While living in this world, our life is shaped by two aspects of reality.
The one in which we can experience by the ways we can see, touch, feel, smell, hear and comprehend the things around us. It is the physical component of our life which…
what if I had a choice to chooseto be creative or to be a puppet
…before I fall down…before I allow the outside noises make me want to climb the walls…before I fall down…before I…
Hey Val. Darling, you’ve got that ‘writer’s bug’ BAD. And it’s contagious !!
I understand you. And I can picture you right there in your office:
Fade
Communication start to fade
And you start to get a clue
That the person that know
becoming the person that knew
That the person that you wanted yeah that person ain’t for you
You’re touching on one of my biggest struggles right now. Over the past few months, I decided that I wasn’t living the life that I was meant to. I told my friends and family that I will make a drastic change in the coming year and leave this all behind. I was quite surprised that my parents were against my idea of what kind of life I should have and…
May 12, 2018.
We all have that friend.
=)
How do you cope when the betrayal wasn’t intentional? When you never meant to harm anybody? When you are the one who betrayed the person closest to you, your best friend, your sister? We all make mistakes, sure, but are there some that can’t be overlooked or forgiven?
Friend or foe?Need to decide?Important to know which side?Isn’t the illusion that there are sides at all?
Really glad you found this article helpful, Elle! Love to hear that these stories encourage other people — I really think it’s important to let people know they’re not alone in their times of struggle. There’s always going to be someone who’s been there too.
Write on!
The title maybe a little extreme but It is based on my personal experience. When I write a blog post like this one or making a YouTube video, trying to share my life’s lessons with those who care to view my content, I often ask myself, who am I to tell my story?
I am going to say this to myself as I say it to you, so say it with me loud and proud, whether in your head or aloud.
So worried about my nowForever feeling so lowI don’t like it at all.I just wish I would fall.But not just myself,Somebody else as well.I don’t want to be alone, Stuck in the worlds of a phoneI’m dying to cry,To let loose and feel freeBut that’s not the make-up of me.Instead I’m fighting a battle with…
Just be.
The Art in Science.
This post “I’m Fighting For My Hobbies” -Daniel Abudu really felt personal because I could relate with it.
I come from a background of art and right now I’m studying Computer Science. I never really liked computers, in-fact if I can recall it was my worst subject in primary school…
So the day is here where we will pretend to be friends with everyone and with fake smile talk to each other of weather. That’s not what real friends are.
How do I know that? Well I have had both-
Chasing
I wonder why people save so much money without eating good food, without being happy and without enjoying or having fun of current life. Money should be saved but does it mean to stop being fully present in present moment.
Am I guilty of love..
Because that’s what they said..
I feel softnessThat’s like no otherTenderly sitting with myselfLooking for something that is already there
I’m not sure I’m understanding what you’re getting at by saying you don’t believe its the same thing? If you truly believe in feeling shame for not being able to expose yourself to the world then the only way to remedy this for your son is to teach him, as my own parents did,and now we will carry on w both our son and daughter, that BOTH body types…
I want to create things. I have this fascination of being surrounded by all things made by me. Is that weird? Maybe not along the lines of me listening to only my music everyday or watching videos I’ve made, but I want to know I have made everything that has ever popped in my head.
I know the feeling too well…
I will admit that I do seem to learn more from getting knocked on my ass, as opposed to simply strolling along…
