Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
Life is a complex and mysterious journey, full of twists and turns that often leave us feeling lost and confused. It can be hard to find meaning in a world that seems so chaotic and unpredictable. The simple truth is that life is meaningless, and there is no grand plan that has been laid out […]
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Stop searching for the meaning of life. This is it: there isn’t any. We come to the world alone, we leave alone, and in between, we live, laugh, dream, cry, suffer, enjoy some joyful moments and search for the answers to living a happy life. And that’s it. This is it—the raw truth. But, there’s […]
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Over the past three years, I haven’t been able to enjoy a good old campfire with my advisees on our yearly start-of-school year retreat. This year we were finally able to do so, but I suffered an injury while exercising a few days before, sending me straight to the ER and my doctor, who thought […]
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I have a friend. A secret friend I met ten years ago in May. We live extremely far but to this day we remain in close touch. Through him, I learned a lot about myself and I grew wings, loosened the grip, lost many fears that tied me down and started my journey of self-discovery. […]
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This is my second Thanksgiving alone by choice. The last one, was spent with Drew, my pup companion at the time and it was a very heartwarming evening. This one, I have no pup to spend the evening with, but I still chose to be my own company on a day when everyone is with […]
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Who said life would be easy? Mine certainly wasn’t, and still isn’t. Perhaps it will never be. And yet, like Teresa Mendoza, of Queen of the South, I feel I slay every day. And I like to celebrate it by watching the show on USA Network, Thursday 10pm/9PMc. Best part of it is, that wonderful […]
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There is a little book I treasure by Victor Frankl entitled Man’s Search for Meaning which boils down to people’s will to live while in a concentration camp, as he, Frankl did in Auschwitz. I must have read this book over 10 times since my dad gave it to me when I quit drinking, which was […]
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Youth, fortunately, or unfortunately doesn’t have the fear barriers we adults have, so it believes, just as we all adults once did that, bad things only happened to other people. I also thought that way and it’s a miracle I’m alive. In our youth, we believe we are invincible, fail to see trouble coming and are […]
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The problem with human beings is their ability to remember the past. I live now in an almost constant state of melancholy for all I lost along the way. Everything rests there in some hidden part of my brain, waiting to be triggered by some place, person or thing I come across. I’ve returned to […]
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There are many ways to let off steam, one is by voicing how you feel even if what you say may hurt another. What I told my father, was one of the worst things you can tell a dad, but I felt the urge to tell another human being how I was feeling and he […]
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