To my Heart, Why are you so difficult? So unsure, so diffident, so voracious and compulsive? You are so many things, but I’m just one gal. Sometimes I feel like I…
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On Love, Loss, and the Rebirth of Self-Love by Amy Pastrana. I’m a listener. I listen to people’s problems, I listen to what my friends have to say about their life, about…
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To the child I hope I haveThere are going to be things in life that are beautiful. There will be the first greenery to pop up when the snow melts, the…
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Essays & Thoughts, On Jobs & Careers, On Motivation, On RelationshipsLaugh Without Fear
February 22, 2017An Essay by Julianne Day Ignacio I have reached that age when I just laugh if people ask me whether I have a boyfriend yet or how many kids I want…
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In the midst of the unfortunate series of events that has been unfolding, I ask you to not give up the hope for a better state of being, to never give…
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The middle of anything is an awful place to be. No one seems to care about the middle for it possesses neither the miraculous inspiration of a beginning nor the satisfying…
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I ask every student I tutor, “Do you enjoy reading?” They look up at me from their phones internally preparing themselves for their English tutor’s overdramatic reaction when they say, “I don’t…
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Essays & Thoughts, On Jobs & Careers, On MotivationHow To Reset & Refresh For 2017
January 20, 2017Tips for the demotivated on how to start the year off right. We’re now a few weeks into 2017. It’s the end of an era and the start of an uncertain one.…
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I just learned that C.S. Lewis did not write nor say, Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different. which is fine…
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The last job I had made everyone say “Oh, that’s interesting! What a cool job!” but every burst of admiration made me wilt. I did not feel the same way about…
