Random posts that don’t quite fit into other categories. Some of them are surprising, and I hope they create a lovely tangled mess!
Hesitation is the action killer, the dream killer, a stranger and a friend to no one. It tells our worst selves about our best selves, the ones who set goals that seem impossible to reach. This is for those stone-hard days when your goals become an ominous wall, a rock face to scale with no […]
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1 In my philosophy class last spring, we dipped our toes into religion. It was short, sweet, and full of contrasting ideas. What I ended up writing about was Divine Command Theory through an odd lens: tigers. Let me say that for me, someone who excels in written thought over spoken communication, in reading retention
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Why do I hold onto the idea that doing “more productive” things that I rarely do will make me happy? Every day I wake up thinking of what I have to do, or what I should do, more precisely, and after compiling this list I go about living with it constantly hovering over my head.
We need to sometimes, yet can’t help but feel shameful. It eats away at us for months until we do it, until we break free, and when we do there’s no sense in feeling guilty. Recently, I put in my two-week notice for a job. I’d planned on giving them longer to find a replacement
Choosing one niche to focus on is hard for me. My lifestyle and interests don’t fit into one thing. I’ve written about travel (and plan to again when I can get back out there), my life, inspiration, creativity, productivity, vocation, really anything I could fit in the pot. How do I balance them? Once, I
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I’ve decided that my content doesn’t have to be serious. The more serious I make my newsletters, my videos, my streams, the more detached they become from who I am sometimes. I’m the kind of person who gets in his own way a lot.That sentence alone speaks to my point. On a small whiteboard in
It’s hard to catch a grip on this spinning world. Even when one’s caught, it’s missed. Recently unemployed, a chunk from my life fell out and scattered everything with it. To put this over-the-top, I bent my shoulder climbing a counter a few days ago. It doesn’t bend nice, and I won’t be able to
Everybody has problems, and the bigger the problem, the more attention it needs. You really need to love the big ones, your future, family, life, and your passions to overcome their problems, to make them work out. Part of loving those things is trusting everything will be okay. Whatever gets in your way, just know
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It bothers me when I’m not productive. For the last two weeks, I’ve spent my days off pretty much doing nothing: didn’t work out much, didn’t write, all that jazz. I felt like I needed a break, at least a slowdown from exercising, but that feeling didn’t make taking a break easier. How can laziness
Sitting in my car, I wait in a nostalgic place gone dark. Shrill cries of feral creatures echo through a quagmire of trees between my home and the parking lot where I sit, waiting and listening. Something ill-timed yet familiar: the first car trickles in and pulls up a space from mine in the lot.