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The Word I Used to Be Too Shy to Say
What do you do when you made someone really upset at you? Seven years ago, I would have tried to make it up to them by doing something extra nice. Like when I said something mean to my brother, I would buy him something nice. Or when I made my best friend sad, I would […]
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The Worst Advice I Ever Got
‘If you love writing, why didn’t you become a writer?’ I asked my English teacher. She laughed, then said, ‘You cannot make money writing. Writing is not practical. You need to find something practical to do to make money.’ I was 14 years old. I believed her. In my head, I crossed out my ambition […]
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What to Do With The Rest Of Your Life
I should have been dead, but here I am now, three months away from my 28th birthday. I wish I could tell you my plans for 2017, but I don’t have them because I never expected to be alive. I never planned my life past the age of 26. I didn’t think I would make […]
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3 Pieces of Advice From Your Parents You Should Ignore
Parents want the best for us. They give us advice hoping we won’t make the same mistakes they did. My dad once told me, ‘Never look down on people because they are uneducated. They can teach you things you cannot find in textbooks.’ He was trying to tell me that there is something to learn something from everyone […]
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The 5 Obvious Life-Changing Habits You Ignore
People want to get ahead in their lives, to become more influential and powerful. Even if they don’t say so, it is part of human nature to want to have control over yourself and other people. This control is not necessarily negative. In fact, it can be very positive. Imagine a child in a home of […]
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Pyrrhic Victories are a Waste of Time: Here’s How to Avoid Them
Not all arguments are worth winning. Winning an argument with a friend, for instance, may mean losing that friend. To lose a friend over an argument isn’t wise. We try to avoid it. Even when our friends are wrong, we keep quiet. To win an argument and lose a friend is a victory we try to avoid. History […]
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Ego Will Silently Take Away Everything You Want in Life: Here are 4 Ways to Kill It
The hare was fast, but ended up last. The tortoise was slow, but was the most victorious of all. You know this story. That inevitable race between the lighting fast hare and the inch by inch moving tortoise. Starting off strong, the hare later makes a fatal mistake that will make him lose the race: he […]
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A Short 2016 Re-Cap
It has again been a while since I wrote an update about myself here. The reason I don’t do it too much is because I think there isn’t much value in me talking too much about myself. I would rather talk about other things than myself. But I became inspired to write a bit about […]
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How to Make Friends as An Introvert
I’m an introvert who used to hate making new friends and/or talking to strangers. My biggest annoyance was small talk. I didn’t like small talk – it was time wasting. Rather, I found it more interesting to dive in immediately into a discussion about the meaning of life and how far along have we gotten to finding […]
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10 Lessons from a 27 and a half year old
I have a confession: this post should have been titled ’10 Things I Learned at 27.’ It should have been posted on 20th January (my birthday). But on 20th January I was feeling suicidal and did nothing but lie in bed all day. I was weak. But I never admitted to myself that I was […]