When the Loser Moves Out of Crown Town

From the moment I graduated, and quite honestly before then too, I had no tangible plans for how to handle post grad life. For the first 6 months I stayed at my college job and, without too much worry, decided to enjoy life beyond the restrictions of school schedules and assignments. My friends and I went on camping trips, went out on Saturday nights, went to Vegas and enjoyed the freedom of…

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If You Don’t Know What Love Is, Read This

He told me he didn’t know what love was. I responded with, “Love is when you put that person before yourself.” This is in the simplest terms and with no other way for me to state it.

Although I have no knowledge of what it feels like to be inlove. I have felt the most potent forms of love in the moments my dad slipped away from me. I was blindsided with how much emotion consumed my body. It…

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Sometimes the biggest road block in the way of our ultimate success is ourselves.

Why is it that our own brains like to make our lives more complicated by making us believe we can’t do something? That we aren’t worthy of the things we want? That somehow whatever we desire is just too scary for us to even try to achieve?

It really be your own sometimes.

Our brains love to freak us out when the…

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Our lives won’t ever be devoid of sad moments, trying times or depression. When the difficult moments enter our lives it feels like they will last forever. It feels like happiness won’t come again and that we’re just stuck in an endless cycle of emptiness.

“Find the things that used to make you happy.” Well that’s a little difficult if you no longer have the desire to do the things that used to…

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My best friend just moved to England this summer and I have a few friends living on the east coast. This seemed like the perfect excuse to escape my life of monotony for a while. I was running away from my boredom, my depression, my grief and the stagnancy of my life in general. Two weeks away in London, Boston, New Haven and New York sounded like the perfect two weeks where nothing could go…

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How To Survive Loneliness

I’ve been purposefully avoiding my blog for these last three months. I knew that if I came here again after my last post, it would be an emotional process to write the next. These four months of grief have dealt me a card I still don’t know how to handle. Leaving aside the fact that I’m grieving and all the messy things that come along with that, I have been left feeling completely alone. Which…

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When the minor inconveniences of post grad life take a backseat to Death

We all love to joke about how “horribly” messy our lives are and the constant obstacles we face when we transition into adulthood. That’s basically all I write about. Today is different. Today, with a heavy heart I come without complaints. As I mentioned in my post about gratitude, it is easy to complain about all the small issues in life if, despite those minor inconveniences, life is okay. It…

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Quit Your Crying And Be Grateful For 2 Seconds

In the midst of my very negative energy, as of 2 mintues ago, I decided to focus on all the things that are right in my life. It’s easy to focus on the things your’e not happy with if you’ve become used to all the priveleges in your life that seem like a given. But those things aren’t given, they can easily be taken away. So I made a list in my head of everything I’m grateful for. Once I…

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