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Just Do It
"If you can't beat fear, do it scared." Lately I have been forcing myself to do the little ideas I get in my head that I usually shy away from; the things that are not hard to do; the things that just seem pointless or silly because no one else is doing it. When in reality I could be the leader in the situation and truly encourage human beings to step out of their shells and go ahead and do what makes them so them. I can imagine you’re wondering, “what in the hell is she talking about?” So I’m going to give some examples.
By - Karaedan -7 years ago in Motivation
Pondering Existence
Recently, I have faced death. Not only in my family with the death of my beloved Nanna and then Aunt two weeks later, but also within friends’ lives as well—not necessarily being human; family can also be your pets or those close to you that you consider family. I have witnessed the death of two of my friends’ very loved and faithful companions this week. It appears death has begun to rampage our world. The pain I have felt in the last month, and the pain that I have seen in my friends’ lives has left me pondering how fleeting life really is. How short our life is in the span of the age of time itself. When a loved one passes, in our pain we begin to question life itself. What are we here for? What is the point of our existence if life itself is so very fleeting? As someone who suffers with PTSD and depression, these questions, and many similar, flow through my mind consistently. I remember quite recently toward the beginning of this year, I penned the following paragraph. I was in a dark place, having recently had a medical scare.
By River Garman8 years ago in Motivation
// BEING (Almost) 18 //
Wow. It's almost here. I'm 2 days away from being 18 and I don't know how to feel. I know that more opportunities are going to come my way in life and I know that more things are going to open up for me—my world is my oyster at this point. But still. More responsibilities. More time to manage.
By Lauren Day8 years ago in Motivation
The Dust of Our Bones: Pt. 2
All of life was held within the stretching breath of a moment and there was no room for questions. It was all settled inside like sun rising every morning. This was life and all was as it should be. Childhood unraveled in the rhythm of long summer days and wondrous winter nights and abundance was found simply in what was before you.
By L M Anderson8 years ago in Motivation
How To: Go Back to School at Your Very Best
As someone who attends a highly competitive school with less than 500 students total, I get my fair share of depressive emotions that make me want to dwindle into another world as the beginning of the year inches closer and closer and my summer of doing nothing slips away.
By L8 years ago in Motivation
A Wave at a Time
Have you ever stared out into the sea for what seems like hours, yet the only thing that we focus on is how big it really is. I mean, really big, never ending. We stand there flabbergasted at the fact that this massive body of water, containing millions of life forms underneath the surface where nobody can even see, just goes on forever. We try so hard to see farther than our eyes are letting us, why can’t our minds do the same? We can sit for hours and think about the endless dreams and goals we want to achieve, but the truth is, it ends with us.
By Kylie Hartwig8 years ago in Motivation
How to Get Motivated: A Review from Experience and Pro Tips
We’ve all had ups and downs. And sometimes when you’re down, you feel like you can’t get anything done, like you’re always tired and simply don’t want to do anything but lay in bed, watch Netflix, and eat your body weight in snacks.
By Nathalie Fernandez8 years ago in Motivation
Introduce Yourself
What does it mean to be whole-heartedly ourselves? You can say that you have "found yourself," or that you are "uniquely your own," but how do we know what that even is? Everything we’ve absorbed and maintained has been things that we’ve seen, that we’ve heard, that we’ve accepted as ours.
By Marissa Rojas8 years ago in Motivation
The Event
When I talk about “the event,” my narrative sounds strangely like Kevin Spacey’s “there was a lawyer…” yarn in The Usual Suspects. Unlike Verbal Kint’s tale, my event was as real as a Kobayashi coffee mug. You see… there was an event in April of this year that changed me. The event’s catalyst doesn’t matter, or even where the event happened. What does matter is I was someplace on a Sunday afternoon, and I began to sob. We’re talking at the funeral of everyone you’ve ever known boohooing. Had I been a professional mourner, this performance would have gotten me callbacks for the next couple of years. Through the black tears that were leaching off my equally dark feeling soul, I concluded I had made some grave mistakes in my life.
By Brian Kannard8 years ago in Motivation
