How to avoid miscommunication through text messaging

Relationships aren’t easy. There’s a lot of miscommunication and very often the words we utter are supercharged and loaded with emotion, but now we have added yet another miscommunicating tool “texting,” which not only lacks emotion but words seem to fail to convey exactly what they mean because they can be interpreted by the recipient […]

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Peace at last.

It’s so liberating to finally reach an emotional destination such as peace. That peace with oneself and the world around you, which allows you to see clearly and fearlessly, that life and relationships shouldn’t be a battle to be fought. We choose our battles, true, but often forget we simply don’t have to be at […]

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Who is your hero?

The people I most admire are humble beings who are extremely gifted. I look up to them because they have faced extreme challenges and have overcome them, in my opinion, surprisingly well. They are my heroes.

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The calm that comes with age.

Aging, some might think is unfair and cruel as my grandfather would say. It takes away your beauty, your strength and sometimes your hopes and ideals. You may become too tired to battle on with the looming of your mortality and fallibility in the horizon. But it’s not all as bad as it seems.

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Remember by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti is one of my favorite poets. She expressed sadness with such beauty as when she wrote Remember. Remember me when I am gone away,          Gone far away into the silent land;          When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more […]

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Work and hugs

There is nothing like a purposeful life. We all have our own drives, which we only discover in time. Mine are simple. A job I enjoy tremendously and the love of a pup. That’s all I need.

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Dare to dream

Many years ago I didn’t dream about getting to better places until a friend told me to dare to dream, to imagine things I wanted and that eventually those things would materialize. It was hard at first. I had to actually allow myself to imagine getting even the simplest of things. Most were not even […]

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