February 2012
4 posts
How can I be expected to feel anything but miserable after what occurred.
Demands
Explain to me how this isn’t a lie. Reason how reality amounts to me plastering this worn, familiar smile on my face and pretend that we’re not all walking around on clouds of faux happiness.
Remind me why I shouldn’t be angry at you. The reasons why I should look at you and think of your everything but your selfish ways should be indelible from my mind. Remind me why I...
January 2012
1 post
5 Years From Now
5 years from now I’ll be thirty. The lines on my face, whether formed through smiling or frowning, tanning or smoking, will begin to present themselves to society as though they are distinguished guests speaking at a public symposium. As they become more pronounced, so too will their love for me; a love that will not be driven away by neuropeptide creams and facial scrubbing kits and diets...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
5 posts
Stats: SINGLE FOREVER.
If you’re still tightly clenching onto hopes of falling in love and becoming married, well…it’s time to let those white knuckles take a reprieve. Tides are changing and redesigning the landscape that maintains our quotidian ways of seeking modern pair-bonds, and these are all changes that we have become amenable to and are partaking in. I just want to make sure that we’re...
Let's Free Fall Together!
Let’s free fall together. Yes, you’ve already told me I’m crazy, but I think a little bit of insanity might be the dose the doctor recommended for us. Plus, if we do it together, I think it might be a little less scary. And it will feel really good. Really really good. Plus, there are no rules in this game! You can fall up or down or through the weightlessness of the space-time...
Justin Flowers, explained.
Today I spent time packing up my life (see: Suicide/Rebirth #therapy) and in ferreting through boxes, I would say that I shuffled quite the collection of trophies, plaques, accolades, ribbons, metals, etc. and was slightly humbled by everything I had accomplished, if in nothing but my dancing stint. This experience was buttressed by my grandfather visiting, who took it upon himself to recap my...
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Suicide/Rebirth #therapy
I did it. I took the dagger lurking in the shadows of my past and I stabbed myself with it. I wasn’t pansy about it either - I thrust the jagged rusty edge of the blade straight through my heart that had been locked in a vice grip for the last two years. The warm, sticky blood turned red as rage as it slowly exited my body; I felt a sense of relief as the dizzying sensations pierced my...
September 2011
8 posts
Checklist For Your Early 20s
Struggle with your identity. Feel like you’re maturing and constantly learning about yourself while simultaneously changing your aspirations and goals daily. Grapple with the tenets of individualism and feel like you have much to offer the world and can “induce change” while ironically doing what everyone else is doing: working a 9-5 cubicle job.
Battle your alcoholism....
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August 2011
17 posts
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The Truth About Friends
Your idea of a good friend likely started out with the person at your table who shared the red crayon with you in exchange for the blue. Later that wasn’t enough. It eventually became the person who shared their lunch desert with you. Maybe that person let you copy their homework in middle school. You progressed into wanting someone who would listen to you vent about your parents, and...
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Public Restrooms: For Females Only
Biology has pinned the persistent threat of toxic shock on women. Society has charged them with baby-changing duties. Insecurities have doled the responsibility of unbroken beauty which usually is applied in private to get that “glowing look of nonchalance”. So when I’m told that women need public restrooms available to them at all times, it’s an issue not really open to...
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The Next Time I Fall in Love
Your most clandestine depths yearn for it to happen, yet you strongly doubt that you’ll fall in love again. Someday, over the brim of your java cup, you’ll meet someone who catches your eye. The javas will turn into dinners, the dinners will turn into nights, the nights will be weekends, and next thing you know you’ve relinquished all images of yourself at 50 living with five...
Reasons Why I'd Never Date a Nordstrom Girl
Admit it. They’ve got talent. They know how to present themselves, and better yet, some of them are unparalleled in their sales tactics. The product they are selling is one they know inside and out, giving them the advantage of flaunting their hallmark features and concealing their flaws. Nordstrom girls know how to catch your eye with their attentive styles and captivating charm, but...
July 2011
5 posts
Perspective: Rising Universities Fees
As grade inflation and university fees spiral harmoniously upwards, most would expect to see this parade accompanied by a parallel of growing intellect, or at least common sense. State legislative support for higher education is dwindling and students should question whether garnering loans and draining parental savings is worth the cost of academia. In addition, students should question how...
I'VE FALLEN IN LOVE!!
With someone I completely detested before.
She’s the HOTTEST thing I know.
She pushes me to do more things whenever she is around. I’m in school, traveling to places, enjoying beaches, and more.
She motivates me to be tan and nudity-ready fit.
She knows just how to turn up the heat. She has me constantly tearing off my clothes and subsequently sweating, profusely.
I’ve...
Rebuttal: On the Naiveté of Girls and the Guys Who...
[Background: this is a rebuttal to: On Bad Boys and Nice Guys]
You know how you’ve had a best friend, crush, or female acquaintance that always seems to pick the asshole instead of you? Despite your sadness, you suck it up and somehow provide a backbone for your friend who barraged you with unnecessary details of her psuedo-relationship with the asshole, because you’re a good friend. Somewhere...
In life, most attempt to agglomerate information and organize it into some form of cognitive schema. There’s simply no way you can walk through life by selectively intaking what you desire to learn. It’s thrown at you in waves and humans do their best to collect, organize, and use this information to their advantage in some way. However, there can and do exist times when the influx of data can...
June 2011
33 posts
