The people with the most power to hurt us are the people we care about. That’s scary, isn’t it? That isn’t to say that people we don’t care about – or don’t know – are not able to hurt us. It’s sometimes aggravating to endure a stranger’s hateful comment on social media, and it’s unsettling to be confronted by threats […]
Category: Thoughts & Ponders
Do you enjoy rabbit-hole journeys through complex subjects? Do you wish to build the best version of yourself? If you answered yes to either question, these reads may be just for you!
A popular idea that has been making its rounds in modern culture and media is Main Character Energy. In the Urban Dictionary, this is described as such: A person that unintentionally lives, breathes, and acts like the protagonist in a story or series This light-hearted caption, hashtag, or comment has made its way across all social media platforms and while […]
Immaturity is one of those things we treat as a category; a way to define someone as a whole. It is used as an encompassing insult and implies condescension and belittlement. We recognize immaturity as a lack of growth, and what baffles me is typically, we assume that lack of growth is permanent when we describe it as immaturity. We […]
Shame creates Silence Confrontation creates Denial Punishment creates Secrecy I want to see a reduction in the amount of people being abused. I think that is a statement widely agreed upon. I do not believe we are creating an environment that will lessen the volume of abuse in the future. From where I stand, I see an enormous blind spot, […]
In my last post, I mentioned that the idea I spoke about could branch off towards a number of different things I would like to discuss here, and today I’m going to talk about one of those things. No, this one does not come with a personal traumatic story, you can relax. Today, I want to talk about how sometimes, […]
This week’s subject is something I have been meaning to discuss here for a while. The subject matter is something I have learned that has wound up being tremendously valuable to me and has turned my entire world view on its head. I have been avoiding talking about this until now because in order to get to the meat of […]
