“The things we take for granted, someone else is praying for”
Therefore keep watch, because…
In the wake of the Me Too movement, here comes just what we needed: a white male talking about the harm of toxic masculinity… I joke, but seriously, there’s been little serious discussion, outside of general shared grievances and tweeted condolences, from…
Written by Ryan Rohmiller
and the Rise of Digital Fatigue
最近 Medium 華語世界來了一位 KOL。
I have a friend who has virtually no memories of his childhood. He lives so presently that he…
None of us chose our time here, on this planet, in this life. And it sure sucks, doesn’t it? There’s pain and hurt and betrayal, and I took solace in knowing that I can hide myself away for sometime from all of this. In the books I read, in the music I listened to. I still do. It helped…
Dear Marsha,
That summer you went back, they were looking at you. They saw you.
The two weeks you spent with your family and friends, they were constantly trying to figure out how life in…
In one of my favorite scenes in one of the best movies of last year, Michael Stuhlbarg delivers a stupendous…
1 Chronicles 15:1–25 (KJV)
And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen…
“If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? (Psalm 130:3)
Scripture says God is merciful and compassionate. Nevertheless, how can we…
話說《Argon》係一套非常唔似韓劇嘅韓劇。
I wasted a lot of time and money during the first few years after I quit my job doing things that just didn’t make a lot of sense.
Growing up, I was a sprightly kid but never too keen on sports. I attribute my passion for running to…
Most concerts I go to involve mosh-pits full of burly motorcycle-driving men, cacophonic blast beats from ear-piercing drums, and shrieking vocals, reminiscent of an…
I’m EXTRA straight, and I don’t need to be fixed.
Think about putting a smile on someone’s face.
A trip of a lifetime on a train, halted by grain and rain.
I wrote my dad a letter just about a year ago with just one question… “If you could pick anywhere…
I’m smiling with smiles that I don’t mean again.
I’m laughing nervously because I’m uncomfortable again.
I’m uncontrollably lost in all of my thoughts again.
What have I been up to lately? A whole lot of waiting. And some more waiting. Some wondering, and further waiting.
If you’re a reader who follows me for my parenting thoughts or my writing techniques, you’re going to find…
There are few higher compliments than to say she was a farm dog. Most words have been weakened in our hyperbolic society, diminishing our expressive arsenal in times of raw experience, stripping us of reserves needed to differentiate the extraordinary. Little is hallowed, but surprisingly those two words still…
I was one of those people who thought I would never have any kind of mental health problems…
My 13 year old sister became upset with me yesterday after I blasted her for her reaction to running into her favorite YouTube “celebrity” yesterday while we were at Target. I had no idea who the guy was and immediately became furious that she was spazzing out over him, especially someone that…
Stepping out from my carsixteen hours past the decisionfinallyto test the waterswaves lazily lap my feetblue…
〈報告：本週文字產出量在寫日記前已瀕臨極限，請見諒〉
Very interesting read, Will. The end reminded me of the scene in “Fight Club” when Tyler holds a gun to the guy’s head and afterwards says that the meal he has tomorrow will be the most delicious he’s ever tasted.
I completely understand and respect the point you were trying to make with it and I do agree with it but the one…
This week’s selection was published in September 2013 in The New Yorker and can be found here.
We spoke of this article briefly last week during our LPD on This Kind of War as we discussed the nature and character of war…
“How should anything but a formless and aimless uncertainty result from giving…
This is a simple idea. Our mind is a thinking device not a storage device.
Complexity theory
The world is a messy place in a normal day there are so many things that collectively effects your decision. These everyday decisions make up…
We packed the car, the kids and road tripped out to Killington, Vermont. It took six hours to get there…
Hi Claudia,
It is my hope that people learn to speak candidly about their prejudices so that these can be unpacked and put aside.
I’ve had a number of POC friends vet this article. They saw my efforts for what they were — candid unpacking of bullshit prejudices — racial, sexist, gender-biased or…
I believe that anythingIs possible in this lifeAs long as there is willAnd I want youBut this dream seemsThat cannot be fulfilled
Water Quenches Thirst More Than Sweets. Love Is Water, Beauty is Sweets
Dear men,
Water is not sweet but it quenches your thirst more than the sweetest drinks available. A girl does not have to be beautiful to be a good wife. It is good if she is beautiful. But the necessity of a wife is for her to…
這件事情已經發生了一段時間，我曾經遇過不懂文字的編輯。
People are only able to stand on a podium if someone has the ability to make it.
Kalian tahu kenapa hujan menyenangkan? Karena hujan turunnya rame-rame. Pasti garing kalau turunnya hanya satu tetes. Lantas satu tetes lagi, dan seterusnya.
Kalian tahu kenapa nasi lezat dan mengenyangkan? Karena dihidangkan rame-rame. Pasti bengong kalau hanya satu butir…
I can’t help but stare out of a dirt-streaked window, watching the sun rise above the trees.
Mediocrity is the trap separating you from the people you…
It’s now more than a month into summer break.
Chop wood, carry water — it’s a fundamental Zen principal. The gist of it is this — don’t look for enlightenment…
I told you not to call me attractive. To stop lying to me because it was mean to tell me I’m…
- 1893 -
It’s morning and it’s time to go out there and look for something I’ll never find — the usual drama of the heart of man. But of…
Ow! Ow!!! That’s hurt!
Hold Still! I’ve got to comb through these naps!
No one. Nope. There’s no magic wand. No sprinkling of fairy pixie dust that is going to make…
My new year’s resolution was, in short, to be more selfish. I didn’t mean, of course, that I would resolve to be more of a dick to people; I’d had a stressful 2017 where I ignored some of the important things going on around me to stress on far less important people and things.
And I don’t know who they are either.
Yes, you have gotten to the root of the matter. It made me think of confirmation bias where people will keep an ‘open mind' as long as it confirms their view of reality.
It is a simple fact that our bodies and minds are created from the atoms which comprise our universe.
Today has a calmer feel than the last couple of days which, quite frankly, felt quite…
Oh man, it’s Thursday………………………………………………
1. Do not allow anyone to dictate what your healing should look like.I have never felt a process like this one. I am thankfully at a place where I feel in control again and I…
Yesterday, I helped my last close friend move away to become a teacher in another city. 5 people filled a 14’ U-Haul front…
Do you remember those moments as a younger individual when you found yourself unable to understand adults that seemed to be in a peculiar…
Esses dias descendo a timeline apareceu um vídeo. Esse vídeo falava sobre a importância de não ter vergonha de…
Hey guys, this is the first time I’m writing and I hope you all like it.
Now, we all go to/ send our children to school everyday, don’t we? Yes, we do unless you’re sick or might wanna do a bunk. That’s okay, ’cause I also hate…
Knowing and understanding what got the people you admire to where they are today makes it easier to understand where you have to be tomorrow.
Just like knowing and understanding what got you where you are today makes it easier to understand where you should (or shouldn’t anymore) be…
I don’t know.
Why are we told to subtly not give a fuck? Is it just that we know we give a fuck. You have an opinion. Or you care. But just because it hurts you, you are choosing or learning to not care.
Hello Corin,
What you have scratched is the tip of an Iceberg. Human beings are an intellectual species who want to understand things.
Rituals per se work by working only the psychological thought process. If they are in alignment with reality then the belief formed is correct. Anybody can understand…
When you learn to say…
I haven’t thought about this until earlier wherein I’ve done some idiotic actions I don’t think I can undo.
There is one small thing you can do everyday to make you a little happier immediately for the whole day.
जब बीतते वक़्त के साथमैं खर्च होने लगा था, और जेबें खाली हो चली थी,तो मेरे हर खर्चे परतुम सवाल उठाने लगे थे।मैं आखिर जवाब भीदूँ, तो क्या…
It’s almost dark; Sonam is trying to find a place to hide with her two daughters.
Blank: A day in the life…
Nope, nothing, zero, nothing here to say, perhaps I have already said it all and should be on my way.
I have a feeling this is going to be a year of ‘lasts’ and ‘not much longers’.
the husband of the one living in the monastery called me today he is my lover and I have not seen him in six weekshe…
Ok, so that headline might seem like shots fired at other writers and posts here on Medium, or across the web. It really has nothing to do with them at all and everything to do with me. And the reason why is because…
Hi tribe, I count at least 10 of us. You may have noticed that I have not posted for a week! I have slowed down in part as a means of dealing with everything that wants dealing. I still do find myself switching on the vid mode on my phone at a point in the day and recording my…
She asked me what I was going to do next.
“I don’t know,” I said. “Maybe I’ll try going back to writing. Not fiction. Essays, maybe.”
I like to explain, recount, opine, speculate.
Your article was interesting, but limited. The people you interviewed were believers, members of your church, and part of a group. That eliminated athiests and agnostics who don’t expect a future. It also didn’t include those whose health prevented them from engaging in the pursuits they enjoyed in the past. It assumed there was family support. I am…
Are the people interested by meditation dysfunctional? It’s a legit answer. I believe Buddha said: “It don’t matter, sit down.”, he might have used a metaphor, but you get the picture.
It took me a long time to figure this out. I spent about four years thinking about this. Part of me wanted to defend that no, I did not have…
This body is on loan
from the universe of infinite potentials
‘Scars’
I have a lot of scars,And I love them all!
What — if anything — is “Hippie” about Silicon Valley? Last week, I wrote about “The Hippie…
Random Recollections — 1
Memento Mori
In my formative years in Marist Brothers' Juniourate, there was this motuary close-by; a rough bungalow, at HopeVille. We often went to the clinic at HopeVille; or went for a program at our sister school there; Marist Comprehensive Academy.
One of the fascinating phenomenon of human beings is our lemming-like tendency to follow fads, get caught up in whatever…
EXTINCT
So Im okon this plaNET ALIVEmaterial thingsI can name 5the rest of them you can keepeverything else is like counting sheepba ba black sheep be…
In 1996 I came off a season working at a meat works leaving me unemployed for a while. An opportunity to start in a new IT firm came about and I got the job. I worked there for just over a year and a half until business started to falter and as the inexperienced compared to the others I lost my…
So there are many different kinds of relationship in life. Friendships, romantic relationships, love-hate…
What is running after your dream?
At some point in your life you have heard, “You have to run after your dream.” The problem is that no one ever explains…
I remember thin Pokemon cardsFlicking between my fingersHarsh lights, lazy fansRich parents buying everything for their kidsStacked…
Of Train Rides and Thoughts About Life
I’ve been riding trains for countless times. On most occasions I don’t bother to look outside since I’m too busy with my phone. Busy scrolling through Facebook, double-tapping at Instagram, playing various games, reading an e-book, chatting at messenger, checking the weather, and doing…
It started out like this: Something is bothering me.I don’t know what’s bothering me // Couldn’t tell you if I…
Will, I know your approach came from a genuine place and I wasn’t faulting it at all. I would never criticize your actions for attempting to understand the pain of others.
I was looking at the overall idea — not your own personal execution of it — from an analytical standing. Kind of like when people say that there’s no…
“Please imagine your death. When is the exact day, month, and year? What is your…
We walk into Children’s Hospital holding hands. You are terrified. You have already endured numerous operations, but at age eight, this is the first one you have faced with some idea of what is happening.
His long tail as she said.
“They’re looking for the Old Lion happened that he didn’t dance and caught me call you. You stay there.”
I feel a sense of loss for my dream
It stayed with me for years
It didn’t mind the long hours
It relished it
It stayed with me through the hard times
Knowledge and Responsibility
Intelligence gives us evolutionary dominance over plants, animals, and other elements of nature. Those with more knowledge also…
Kamu apaan sih? Kebanyakan ngurus hidup orang lain. Biarin lah hidup-hidupnya dia kok kamu yang repot?
Sebelum saya menulis kembali, saya yakin banyak di antara kita yang memiliki teman, rekan, saudara, atau orang di sekitar kita yang…
I wake up (nights I get to sleep) early, before the atmosphere is clear enough for anyone to see the sky. I work hard everyday of my life just to be sure I’ve taken another step towards a better world for everyone.
“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do…
Where am I? This is my very first go at “publishing” my thoughts. Bear with me. Where to start? My 55 middle-agedness? My recent firing from corporate America and bi-polar thoughts on what comes next? My body building (yeah week six of REAL body building!) experience? Each topic, in its own right a can’t-put-it-down best-selling novel, I’m pretty…
I feel like I’m getting a sunburn from the inside; like standing in the shade is a false promise, because I am the sun, the one from whom all shade hides.
I, Dalton Lewis, wonder why we do anything. Why do we eat three times a day? Why do we…
Peace? Love? Understanding?Compassion? Benevolence?Maybe the sooner the better?Can you help speed things up today?
Man crawls, stands up tall —
small steps…some bold…five…
Loved this, John, and so timely for where I am right now — resisting writing, resisting painting. I dug out my copy of Pressfield’s book to remind myself I can overcome! Just wrote a post here on medium about it a couple of days ago.
thanks, Kris. Life teaches us the truth of your words.
In addition to serving others compassionately and gladly (no matter what we or others see as our “work” in life), we are destined to learn to trust – – either until our situation resolves or our attitude towards it changes or trust becomes our forever friend.
An 80 year-old experiences about 42 million minutes of life. Only a few are etched in memory. The human mind lives for a few…
COULDN’T THINK Of A TITLE
There is this uncomfortability that I’m feeling. (Don’t I love making up new words here😄). It just won’t let me be. I’ve tried…
The past is only a reference point filled with situations that brought us to where we are right now. If it was a…
I love you but I just know that she would never allow you and me to be.
Paragraphs from The Dimond Cutter
On February 19, 2014, Facebook announced that they were buying the startup WhatsApp for a total…
“If a man knows the ‘why’ of his existence, he will be able to bear almost any ‘how’,” wrote Dr…
When I sleep, I don’t think about killing myself. I don’t think about the one thousand different spectrums of pain that I feel so much. I understand some of them but mostly I don’t.
The mind never sleeps. Even though we sleep for a while, Brain is still working. In a day we have approx 60–70 Thousand thoughts which keep on rotating the whole day at our mind slate.
Sun radiates through the clear glass, kissing my shoulders on a hot, sticky Sunday morning. Brunch was kicking off to a great start as I pierced my eyes across the drinks menu, hoping to discover something fresh and cooling. My boyfriend sat across from me, hat sunken to hide from the sun’s rays. I…
Are you overworked, sleep-deprived, and stressed out? Unfortunately, most of us are! Which is why you…
By John W. Vander Velden
Within the human condition it is easy to overlook our own imperfections. How simple to scan…
I can’t sleep. Tomorrow (today, really) is my last day at Visteon. Just a month shy of 16 years, we part ways and say goodbye. And I can’t sleep.
It’s an amicable split. Visteon needed efficiencies and I was ready. But it’s bittersweet. 16 years…
I am not a 90 years old stoic man, who had experienced almost everything in his life to say those above wise words. I am 24 years old guy who has dealt with little sorts of things and experience. I have lived some brightest and some darkest moments of my life. And yet more to…
While showering outside tonight at dusk in the water heated by today’s sun I realized that showering thusly in the cooling backyard was the best thing. Then drying off, then talking with my love, and now writing you are each successively the best thing, I am convinced. And I realize that I have successfully…
Can I reach?The top of my lungs?Can I breach?The songs left unsung?
In time and space, far from what can be placed
Without a face, forget a name to chase
Just a rock or stone, glorified, petrified bone
Purpose earthless, it’s being mirthless
Relationships as a strange thing to meWhy do you want me?Why do I want you ?The sense of belonging is really overrated The need to be accepted is heart wrenching Alone is so outlandish You don’t wanna be left out But alone is forever what will become of us So why the pursuit? So Why the need to bond?Cause heartbreaks waits at the end of the…
A blue sky,
doesn’t request
to be seen.
Where does it hurt?
If I told you it gets better will that help you?
Though, I don’t know what a phoenix look like or it every existed. But when we have a very dark days or hard time or dark years. You feel like nothing good will to you.
But when you come out of the ashes and rise out of it. You see something. It there to make you…
me and you
we already knew it when it started
we pretend we didn’t because it would ruin everything
but now we don’t even pretend it doesn’t exist anymore
It’s really the momentTo face my fears/ to follow my dreamsAnd to say no to all things imprison meThey won’t stole my nights again
You sometimes struggle in this world to be the best you can be.
you just don’t sit around and expect things to change. you need to do something in order for change to occur.
you can’t have a positive mindset if you continue to think negatively.
adjust your mindset and think positive thoughts in order to be accustomed to things.
I recently quit my job selling books out of my garage after being published by the Medium Partner Program. It makes me wonder. Am I bigger than Amazon?
I feel like I have never been in such a clueless situation. I will have to move out my current room in 10 days, and still don’t…
Estaba en un profundo sueño tan vivido como físico que jamás imaginé que estaba dormido, un rayo de sol bajaba sobre…
Tre! I can relate to this as if it has happened to me, and the feelings your words have inspired me to feel have really been inside me all along.
But, that’s only the truth. Perhaps I haven’t yet been subjected to circumstances that would require me to feel emotions such as this, but I have contemplated how it would be.
Sometimes I love the skin I’m in and sometimes I don’t.
I was literally just thinking about this earlier tonight. It’s the simplest thing but it creates a guaranteed smile.
#latergram <Vibe Your own pace>
It can be ironical as someone who lives on an island doesn’t know how to swim. 😆. But here I am, learning how to swim at the post quarter-life stage. “You need to slow down, relax & let it float.” The instructor said.
You know why? The same style works with Garcinia SK2000. They repaired my Garcinia SK2000…
The darkness fills my head, but I can feel the light in my heart. Every step I take feels like a mile, but I know it is bringing me to a better place. Darkness makes everything feel out of reach, but the light puts it right in my hands. Demons party and try to make me go insane, but my angels keep them and me tamed. My thoughts are filled with trauma…
Happiness doesn’t come from status or a paycheck,
it comes from following the path you feel truly pulled to.
vanity of vanities, all is vanity;
being constantly preached in Bible study,
sitting in solitude, saying silently
A series documenting the lives of homeless people suffering from mental illnesses and how they cope with its stigma in Kilburn, North West London.
Kilburn is an area based in the borough of Brent. The borough was ranked fourth in the ten worst boroughs in…
I distanced myself from everyone.
This was just a plan before.
Cause I thought.. walking alone will make me focus to myself more.
I thought having no companion on my path will give me a peace.. and yes, it does.
I suppose that every good story starts with an introduction, so here is mine…
Here I amThinking about itAll aloneBut I'm overjoyed
Absolutely! Perhaps that’s the role of meaningful relationships…. Those that mean the most enrich our lives and help us to stay on our feet… We then serve the same role in other lives.
Traveling is the third true love of my life (behind reading and eating). My sister, best friend and I spent two glorious weeks…
It’s all you need as you set sail into freedom. But undecidable winds will hardly get you anywhere. There are no interesting stories for you to tell. Nothing is ever certain. So write your story. Blog about it. Take your time. Decide on what you want to…
I just found this unfinished draft. I’m posting it now, because it’s a great reminder to me about the power of intention. A great number of things on the 2018 list have come to fruition to some degree. And just as surely I have forgotten some of the things on…
Sunsets have long been considered beautiful. A rare occurrence in this lifetime where often, departures are dreaded by many. Perhaps, a part on…
Redemption in Every Story
I’m sorry to hear about the way your ex-husband acted about your children. I do believe in even the most difficult situations, redemption can follow. Maybe not for your kids directly, but in the story of your grandkids and how they are loved and cared for by your children.
August 4, 2018
I finally was my legs.
I chickened out in a panic at the salon, where I had originally wanted to do it. The judgemental stares were too much for me, enough to make me question the reason for even doing this.
Yesterday I wrote a bunch of organ duet recital proposals for organ festivals in Germany, Italy, Switzerland…
The youth are lazy.
The youth are ungrateful.
The youth are too consumed with social media.
And, to be fair, it’s not our fault.
Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light…
Greetings Dear Reader,
We so often want to know why the pain is still there. We go back and rerun the events that caused the pain and wonder what we could have done…
