Annoyed at Myself During Quarantine
Just like if you spend time with someone you start to pick up on the annoying tendencies they have whether they leave dishes in the sink, don’t clean the coffee grounds on the counter, or send you passive aggressive messages not addressing their actual issues but hoping their “hints” will actually make you do something different when it actually induces only rage.
But what if that person is yourself?
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Presents, Presence, and Pre...P...Preznance?
My much anticipated return to writing self-assuredly on topics I possess little to no self-assurance on. This time it's about mindfulness and presence and...hey...stop looking at your phone...pay attention...no don't scroll down...damn...
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Determinism Drives Empathy
After Sam Harris and Joe Rogan talked about this almost three years ago, determinism is still one of the biggest ways I can empathize with people. Check out my thoughts on determinism and how it can be beneficial to you. (maybe...)
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Figuring Out If It’s Worth It
Deciding whether or not to take on more responsibility is one of the inevitable side-effects of "adulting." Avoiding responsibility is also, one of the inevitable side-effects of "adulting."
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Mentally Overcoming A Sh*tty Situation
It’s honestly taken me four or five days for this to not take up majority of my thoughts. In that time I realized there are ways for me to handle these pervasive and borderline obsessive thought patterns when dealing with the unknown. If they helped me they might help you, so I think it’s worth me writing about.
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The Blog Equivalent to that Terrible "As We Go On " Graduation Song
(Not sure if the title makes you want to click on this but I tried) Life hands you a lot of curveballs. You can be cruisin’ along thinking you’ve got the whole life thing mapped out.. But sometimes it takes is a couple speed bumps before realizing you need to take a step back and face some of your irrational fears.
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People Have Layers. Onions Have Layers. You Get it? We Both Have Layers!
There's a more to people than people think. People are like onions. "They stink?" Ye...No! "Oh they make you cry?" No! "Oh you leave 'em out in the sun to long they get all brown, start sprouting little white hairs?" No! Layers! Onions have layers.
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Twenty-three and Me
A birthday is a lot of things; it’s a celebration that you made it through another year of life, it’s a time to look back at the past year and see how you can improve, and a time to look forward at the year ahead to see where you’re going. It’s also a great time to smother the inevitable existential crisis with a greasy bloomin onion and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s
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The Real World: When Life Stops Being Polite and Starts Getting Real
The time between graduation and your first job is pretty scary. If you want to hear my abbreviated story and relish in the fact that your's is/will be significantly smoother, here you go.
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Underbelly of the Underarms: The Smelly Truth About Deodorant
A short exploratory look at the dark side of forgetting to put on deodorant, I mean it's not like there's a light side... Nobody's been thankful they forgot to put on deodorant...Patchouli doesn't count yah hippies!
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I Wish I Was Bad at Names
"You never hear, “Oh man it was so awkward I remembered their name but they totally forgot mine!” People just don’t want to talk about that time someone forgot who they were. But it is easily 100 times worse when you’re talking to somebody and are slowly coming to the realization that they have no idea what your name is."
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5 Questions on Starting A Blog
A half-assed attempt to prepare myself for a years worth of work by answering questions I still haven't answered. Also my first post so it's not very good. I guess the it's only up from here...hopefully
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