He’s attractive, articulate, seems to have impeccable liberal credentials, and he’s encouraging…
If we were to look at relationships and strip it of any complications and any thoughts about what it should…
This is a simple read to make you remember the beautiful truth about life. A quick “Pick me up” when…
When we are young parents teach us what’s wrong and right. When building a sand…
Every single one of us is trying to figure it out. Life, that is. We search for a meaning. Many teach their findings along the way. Some…
…nothing is true that cannot be…
This week a theme playing in the background of my life was the message of truth telling. It’s a subtle thing —…
“Real knowledge is to know the…
Мировоззрение, мировоззрение и ещё раз мировоззрение
Перевод статьи Erik P.M. Vermeulen: How to Be Successful Now & In the Future
There were long nights before this. Nights I cried and couldn’t sleep and felt lonely because I didn’t know who to call.
As rational, autonomous individuals, is freedom attainable?
The suppression of who we really are in our relationships causes comparison and the side…
This is about a little giant and what remains to be one of, if not the, best stories I have ever…
Being a writer can be a lonely world.
Finite vs Infinite goals —
How to combine FINITE and INFINITE goals to live an awesome life 👌 — inspired by Simon Sinek FINITE VS INFINITE 🙏 @simonsinek
Mistakes should always be expected. Mistakes can be an instant consequence like going to an establishment that only sells Pepsi. Mistakes can be unapparent until a long and drawn out challenge like getting checkmated in a game of chess.
The problem of evil is perhaps the biggest obstacle to faith in a loving God.
I read books. 📚
On a rare evening, seeing the kids of my neighborhood collecting pebbles and…
‘Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make…
When I finished Selectivity, I decided to spend one month just having fun without focusing on any specific things. Just inflow.
I have had no plans in my life. The benefits of having no plans is that it leads you to many paths as long as you take them. I can proudly say I have executed my 38 years of life in the methods of Forrest Gump, when asked to do something a simple “OhKaay” was my usual response.
Kindness: If you are giving back you’ve already taken too much.
It starts with becoming your wallet,
Then your keys,
Then… you.
It will drive your car, do your job, and fuck your lover.
Peter is in his mid 20’s. He is innovative, smart and popular among his coworkers. He has big aspirations and he wants to…
Do you pick coins up individually off the table, or scrape them in a sweep from…
Last night, I saw the realm of joy and pleasure.There I melted…
Sometimes I get into these ruts where I give up on my appearance. Where I “let myself go.”
I always called myself a thinker. Someone who thinks a lot, analyzes everything. I’m even proud of it, as…
Everyday, more algorithms creep into our day to day interactions.
I wrote this article almost two years ago. Unfortunately, the website where I published it shut down. By luck…
a therapy session with ten of…myselves
Disclaimer: Any…
It’s been ingrained in us since childhood the tenet on how to live our lives: go to…
Why Listening Has Become the New “Reading.”
Everyone has a wish to make the best of his life! You too have a similar aim, don’t you?
I didn’t realize that there were trends in essay writing until very recently. These are a…
You can prepare all you want, but you’ll never be ready.
About two weeks ago just before week-long vacation with my girlfriend I decided to see how I’d fare with no computer, video…
#SexyGood
A list of ten things I did or saw this week. This list format is inspired by several newsletters, most especially Austin Kleon’s.
1.) Sir Patrick Stewart will once again play Jean Luc Picard in a Star Trek franchise on CBS All Access. No…
Some men come from the mountain ranges, others the vast plains, and a few from the endless seas. It is that man, the man born of…
Every year I make it a point to re-read two of my favorite books. These books truly speak to my soul and I always am drawn to read them during…
It was fateThat we fell in love;There are no accidentsIn this world;Circumstances brought us closeAnd we felt;What are we going to doAbout it?
Zero and infinite are equal.
In this life of judgements, boxes and concepts that our incredible minds are producing, it is very difficult to see that our habits of thinking only create restrictions. This concept is one of the most powerful…
Sensitivity is more like a blessing when it comes to people science. Tippy* and such lovely creatures, we adopt as pets…
When I was a little girl, LEGOs and Crystal Climbers were favorites among my toys. I lived a lot of my…
Of all the things our parents tried to teach us, emotional intelligence was the one most important skill very few of us got a chance to learn.
Things we do to ourselves.Out of boredom, or a desire to feel something otherthan what you’re supposed to…
Should I stop?
Something I wrote back in November 2015. I was an under-graduate engineering student at an institute that many considered…
“Avendo perso mio padre più di un anno fa, tale perdita è ancora molto viva in me. Andò dal suo medico per un mal di…
Change Your Thought Process and Reaction to Anxiety Attacks
Getting to the bottom to some age-old pondering…
Life is a journey, isn’t it?
Life is not a ‘journey’ in a sense that we need to become very clear about: there is no start, and no final place as you might have hoped. Life is simply…
If I was to vanish will I be missed? Will my name be on your lips? Will my encounters be song to a…
Apart from a quick breakfast, Ollie and I slept until pretty much lunch. Therefore, this blog is going to be pretty boring.
As after lunch, (another mix and match meal, consisting of pesto pasta, chicken, tomato and cucumber salad and feta) we swam and read and played psych.
I’m busy figuring out what’s next.
Your boss is busy figuring out what’s next.
Just like her boss is.
“Peace be still,” is an oxymoron…Peace should an active verb, as God is a verb not a noun…Peace needs to wrap it’s arm around the world and…
My buddy Sunny Creates just created a publication called The Daily Rant. It’s for people that have a lot to f****** say.
I’ve already contributed a piece there and I think it’s a bold new publication that’s sure to stir up some drama on Medium.
Good morning, friends and colleagues! Yes, it’s finally Friday again, and I hope as you’re heading into the…
I understand when people say they feel alone.
When they feel lonely.
You can be in the middle of a city of a million people and still feel that way.
I hate water.
As a child, I had a completely irrational fear that there was a shark in every single…
I don’t have a job “lined up” after, but I definitely have my foot in the door with a few companies. There are lots of companies I really look up to and can see myself at, so I’ll definitely contact them when I graduate in 2 months ☺
I plan on getting into the industry straight away after I graduate. I’m very excited to…
Psalms 30:7–9 (KJV)LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare…
May 27, 2018.
Honestly I always just assumed that the Council of Thirteen re-started itself during the formation of the Yeerk Empire. How can the original Council really have an ear to the needs of the Yeerks if they’re stuck on their homeworld?
As for parts I and II, I mostly agree with you. Hosts and fighting numbers were always an…
Dear Jessica Brennan,
Recently I was gardening — the garden being a great place for reflection — and my thoughts drifted, as they do, to how a petunia functions. Nature shows us its lessons sometimes just when we need them.
What do you get out of giving up?
Acts 27:29 (KJV)Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
The sailors had done all they could do. They had labored and, to the best of their ability, plied their…
…tick-tock, there’s no stopping the clock, thus machines roar, creatures create cycles and clones, while Mother Nature bellows…
A stray dog, curious but reticent, sniffs a wall, a pole,watching, detached,wonders how thatdating thing’s working?His own life’s…
Jay Abraham an American business executive, conference speaker and author once quoted that
“If you can be interested in other people you can own the world.” Getting interested in the people is the efficient way for productive…
“Every living thing has a home.” — My third grade…
Whenever I have to type these about me posts, I tend to either write too little or way too much. What does the average person want to know about a complete stranger anyway? I can keep it general or go deep. I’ll just start typing and whatever happens, happens. I am a young 35 year…
a letter to my 10 year younger self.
hitting the thirties…
I’ve felt that hum since I was 2 years old when I first dreamed that I could fly over the herd of buffalo that is running through the park behind my house. I’ve always followed it, even when I didn’t realize it. As I look back through the hum, the subtlety is like the finest thread, weaving the story that is me. At the lowest edges.
The following “CIS” code was accessible on the federal internal repo servers at the following Internal link located here >…
The Real Housewives of Twitter Island star Rey Champs stopped by Us Weekly on…
For every time you doubt yourself there is someone putting their belief in you to be who you were made to be for them, for you, for this world.
There’s a person who can live a carefree moment. Living it through those common…
NYTimes Op-Ed columnist David Brooks grapples with the push and pull of resume…
Q: “What do you want in life?”
So until today i always blame my faith for all the misfortunate things that had happened to me.But finally i’ve made a mistake that cannot fic for a while. I don’t really know what i’m writing or why i’m writing i just need to get these…
The best stories aren’t the ones where everything goes right.
It’s usually the stories where everything goes wrong.
The stories where you were in the middle of nowhere and the bus broke down and you had to walk for hours and hours to reach the…
Four: that mysterious Tao…
Just as the Earth eternally draws upon the energy of the sun without exhausting it, the infinite depths of the Tao mean that it cannot possibly be depleted. As a seed…
I’m very excited to begin this journey, I think. I stopped blogging for a year and a half now, and I miss it. I miss every comment, every critic, every post, every story. I miss the randoms, routines and fandoms.
Yes, I genuinely had some fans.
It happened at the end of the second act of the Captain America movie ‘Civil War’. Scott Lang…
The blue bar blinks, beckoning.Blipping a message, not in dots or dashes.
But flashes. Flashes of words and messages I really want to say but maybe it’s true…
So often I see people wanting instant gratification. Rather than put in the work over an extended period of time, they do it for a day. When results don’t manifest after that day, they give up. After some time they get sick of their current situation and the cycle repeats. In order to see a real change, you…
When I get stressed, I tense up.
Turns out my hair does the same.
With trembling hands, I picked up a seed.Its hard shell protecting the life force nestled within
My heart shook with a deep sadnessMy belly howled with raw rageMy tears, a deluge, a rushing river
NEITHER I CAN ATTACK LIKE YOU, NOR YOU CAN DEFEND LIKE ME. IT IS BECAUSE WE ALL ARE FIGHTING A DIFFERENT FIGHT. SO LET US STOP COMPARING OUR FIGHT… LET US STOP COMPETING WITH ONE ANOTHER!!!
We almost live our life all in the same way. The fact that we’re always in search of happiness and attention and love and words and good lucks — all the things that subconsciously returning us into the safe feeling of being normal. A living person. A human. Then we depict the…
One of this weeks learning is consciousness about time value,
My mother’s lucid moments include conversations about her sickness, grief, regret. Stories of jobs that never valued her true craft of sewing. Sweatshops. White male owners who ran assembly lines. My mother never understood why her art should be rushed. Her husband who never quite loved her. He was a hard worker. Never abandoning her after two…
A book we read
One summer together
A box by your bed
Full of get well letters
Your leggo set
Scattered on the floor
SEE THE GOOD IN IT.
I didn’t know how to make buns 2weeks ago but today I could make a tasty bun, puff-puff, pancake and (a thought of) cake. It started with my craving for my childhood puff-puff, then I met a girl who lives in my lodge that makes all these and then some brothers whom their mom is a caterer and makes these…
God is nothing. No thing. No THING. Because if He were a thing, he would be subject to decay and death.
Being No Thing, God accepts and understands all That Is. We are all God because we carry His image, and in fact, is the source of that image itself. Thus, Life is God’s…
You won’t believe it but yes it is the fact, I was not ready for any new commitment, to play any new inning of my…
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist, public speaker and New York Times best-selling…
I think this is so on point. It’s an incredibly important aspect of “not caring” that often goes overlooked. If we pride ourselves in not caring we grow to be attached to this self-imposed identity which is simply vacuous without a well-established view of what we care about. This often leads to a masochistic form of “rational nihilism” which…
Aren’t we all criminals? Criminality doesn’t mean only in the context of law.i.e killing a human. We often mistake the meaning of criminal and label it for certainty. Think about it, aren’t we all criminals. Some kill physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We are criminals too, we kill the emotions of our loved ones everyday.
There is a boy in my neighborhood, probably about 12 or 13 years old, who is…
FYI….
I am Afraid
I am Brave
I am Shy
I am Confident
I am Confused
I am Knowledgeable
I am Sad
this is beautifully written Kent.
I found your answers on Quora and that took me here. Keep writing ❤️
I clapped for this article, because it has some very good points.
“This isn’t about making yourself miserable. It’s about rehearsing your response.” I love this, I try to incorporate it in my life as much as possible. There were other great pieces of advice too.
LIVING THROUGH AN UNPLANNED DAY.
Today I wrote no To-do list nor did I plan nothing, yesterday I knew I needed to go to school today but today I forgot. I cooked a delicious coconut rice(not the common one you know, this is my recipe) and I ate and went to school. Don’t know how it happened but I listened to podcasts and…
Growing up I became super obsessed with this cartoon about a chubby yellow teddy bear who wore the same red shirt and…
Depression… A word we hear so often everywhere these days. A monster so strong that makes successful great people so little, so defenceless that they decide to go for a trip without return.
Like Cinderella
With her glass
Yesterday afternoon
I saw a seagull
“Don’t seek; rather, try to find.”
This is a piece of advice I read from a brief text on the Internet about finding happiness. It argues that in order to find that rather elusive…
It is Friday
Strip 128 of #TheAdultManual
Extras
I write things about you, you know that?
I remember all of the times we’ve spent together, or overlapped — at the very least. Like how we passed each other at the hallway, I remember it. I remember everything, because I wrote it down.
Life can only be understood backwards;but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
I know you feel inadequate right now. You started a new job. It’s all new. You’ve never done this type of work. You have to learn a lot. But you love to learn, don’t you?
(1992–2018)
The world gives and takes in equal measure, therefore we should appreciate its gifts in time for they are fleeting.
From the minute Ann called with the news till this moment, I’ve never stopped asking myself why, neither have I really come to terms with its finality. A true son of the…
So, coming out — the prime time for every teenage lover boy and lover gal out there.
Let’s make one thing clear: I don’t believe in coming out. In fact, the idea of coming out is just as unlikely as you straight guys partying with Aslan all day. Oh, and…
How to Put Those Regretful Moments to Good Use
It’s different, of course, but this seems similar to Freud’s idea that it was the Ego’s job to negotiate the inherent tension between the Id and the Super-ego. 🤔
The first rule of thumb when it comes to being a parent — nothing stays the same. Once you figured…
Yoooooo! This is deep! I’m a Drake fan and this made me second guess his image as well. Thanks for sharing this!
I heard a guy say something yesterday, and it blew my mind in such a way that I wanted to share it. It went something like this:
When you trade expectation for appreciation, everything changes.
Your voice was meant to be a lullaby giving comfort to the weary and security to the young. Gregge Tiffen (The Journey…
I want to go back where my heart isI want to go back where my home is
I will hopefully see 48 in a few months and I can’t say I’ve had the same experience. But, I’m an extremely introverted person, happy to walk around in my own blissful silent solitude. With that said, I am a Southern woman by nature- friendly, quick to smile and people have always been comfortable approaching and talking to me. I have never fit…
