Tag: personal growth
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Read this when you’re over 30 and don’t know what you’re doing with life
As I approach my mid-30s I’m beginning to wonder, is it time to settle down? I’m in that weird stage where I’m not young enough to be lost but not old enough to have it all figured out. Or am I? Should I know what I’m doing by now? Ok, let’s not get ahead of…
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Read this when you struggle to do what you love
If you’re a writer you write, right? Even when it hurts. After all, someone said great art comes from great pain. Look at the work of Mary J. Blige and Adele. Mary’s song “Just Fine” doesn’t hit like “Not Gon’ Cry” and Adele’s “Someone Like You” or “Set Fire to the Rain” need I say…
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Damn. How The Year 2020 Taught me how to Curse
I was staring into the fire in my friend’s backyard, we sat socially distant around her fire pit, and I said “that shit doesn’t even matter.” Then I panicked. “Who AM I?” I thought, shocked and awed that I just said the word “shit” so flawlessly — out loud! No one else flinched, the conversation…