You Don’t Need to Get Over Your Fear, You Need to Learn to Live With It
Fear is inevitable, but letting it control your life is not. Something I’ve heard my entire life is that the best things happen when you “get over” your fear. When I was younger and crying because I didn’t want to…
How to Handle a Dwindling Friendship
Friends drifting apart is a fact of life, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to handle. The pandemic has been hard on relationships. Whether you’ve started to realize you don’t align with your friends on certain values, you’ve struggled to…
Condescension
A poem. What if I still cryduring intractable conversationswhen I am oldin my professional career? Would you preferrobots?People replacerswith calculatorsbuilt-in. With age, wisdomdoes notautomatically bestowitself upon you. Emotional intelligence isnot tapped intolike a keg. Perhaps you wouldprefer it to be?…
Why Not Writing is the Best Way to Ultimately Write
Sometimes taking a break from writing is the only way to actually end up writing. We all have those moments — seconds, minutes, hours, days, or weeks that slip by without a single word coming to mind. I’ve had stretches…
Stressed at Work? Here are 4 Ways to Help
Sometimes it seems like there’s not much you can do when stress is coming from external factors, but there’s always something you can control. For a long time, I wasn’t the best at handling stress. I don’t think you could…
The TikTok That Saved Me Hundreds of Dollars in Medical Bills
Sometimes, I learn things from TikTok. And now you can, too! Something I learned in 2020 is that medical bills are expensive. Even with insurance, for a simple medical procedure or office visit, you can sometimes be left with several…
The Simple Thing That Cured My Anxiety-Induced Insomnia
Being overly strict about my nightly routine made all the difference. The pandemic ruined my sleep schedule. Like most young professionals, I started working at home in spring 2020. With that adjustment to my schedule came a lot of blurred…
What I Learned Picking an Old Hobby Back Up Again
Sometimes you can learn just as much from returning to your old ways as by trying something new. When I was in middle school, I started babysitting for one of our family’s next-door neighbors after school. Each weekday when I…
How to Be Happy Alone
It might seem impossible, but you can be happy with yourself, even when you’re all alone. I’ve never considered myself a loner, per se, but I am by most definitions someone who would fall into that category. I spend much…
The Art of Doing Nothing
What quarantine taught me about creativity. If there’s something we can all relate to right now, it’s the isolation we are experiencing at the hand of the coronavirus pandemic. Right now we are all collectively hunkering down and trying to…
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