Relationships are a part of life, some are good relationships, and some are toxic relationships. Elane had experienced two different toxic relationships. One with a friend, and one with a boyfriend. Both relationships had mentally drained her. "I can 't believe how stupid I was. I wasted two years of my life, " she said out loud to herself. She thought about how she tried and tried to make her friend, Haleigh, and her boyfriend, Joe, happy. She never got the same in return. Whenever asked,…
“Hey girl, open the walls.. Play with your dolls.. We’ll be a perfect family..” “Falina, quit being greedy and give your brother some pizza” said a young black haired woman, She was glaring down at a small skinny little black haired girl. The small girl flinched back and lowered her head “S-Sorry M-Mama..” she said quietly pushing away her pizza to her younger brother. The young boy squeaked in excitement and ate it all up in one bite, Falina’s stomach growled loudly. She tried to hide it…
It was 4:35 in the morning and I was in Los Angeles, California; another sleepless night had accompanied me once again. I laid there on satin sheets, in my California king sized bed, listening to a peculiar sound: Silence. It was just me, my four walls, and an empty journal. What could have possibly been on my mind? One would expect a young woman like me with a life full of chance to be carefree, without a worry in the world. However, it was more than that, as cliché as it may sound, the man of…
Pieper’s and Descartes both have different ways on how they view “the truth in all things”. Pieper stressed the close connection between moral and intellectual virtue, his main idea was that we aren’t able to create truth; instead they must belong to the truth of things given during its creation period. Descartes on the other hand has a completely different view. Pieper’s understanding of truth relates too being, while Descartes doesn’t believe in the truth of all things really in any way.…
The first step of this journey to a healthy living of happiness and healing begins with the level of clarity on what exactly you want to achieve. The power of having passion to aligning with purpose to seek out prosperity is different for everyone. Asking the question, “if you woke up tomorrow and your life was perfectly how you wanted it to be? What would that look like to you? How would it feel that you are already there? What would need to happen for you to know that it was all you wanted…
Colin Wilson a self-educated man, who was a writer. His first book was "The Outsider." Everyone loved the English writer, and most of his booked touched deep in postwar Britain. His book was an instant hit about an "outsider" who was capable of surviving life in an ordinary world. He was born in Leicester, [The United Kingdom] on June 26, 1931. He was highly educated, at Gateway school in Leicester, he worked many other jobs before becoming a writer. He was known to be the "the major literary…
My father started to come home later each night. First it was eight, then eleven, midnight, and eventually I wouldn’t even see him until the next morning. I would call him to see where he was, and the response I would get was “I have one more customer I need to sell a car to, I’ll be home soon. I love you, baby girl.” And of course I believed him and went about my business. But at that moment I didn’t realize that soon would mean the next day when I’m watching Rocket Power and eating my Frosted…
In John Holt book there are four main topics he talks about, those topics are strategy, fear and failure, real learning and how school fails. Each of these topics led to the next and it showcased the problem from the beginning. In terms of themes in the book, Holt proceeds to state them in the first couple of pages when he proclaims “Most children in school fail…because they are afraid, bored and confused. That simple sentence sets up the majority of the book and answer the question of the…
Hair flowing through my fingers, frozen angel tears brushing upon my face. Screams come through my ears, but I see nothing through this colorless land. I try to emerge from the weight holding at my knees as I make my way through the screams only to get louder. I am so shaken by the noise I run, and I keep running looking for a way out but no door will appear. I wonder if I were to just fall would the angels tears pull me under wings or pull me to my demise. Brushing through I can see…
Why Does He Not Listen? I’ve been knowing him my whole life and you would still think that he would at least try to understand me by just listening. A person with a fixed mindset is always trying to see things their own way. They are set up a certain way that when you try to communicate with them and explain your point of view, they become very biased in terms of understanding your point of view as opposed to theirs. This is a great definition of my dad. When I try talking to him I feel…