happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Letter to the CVS Man
Dear enthusiastic employee at CVS, Before I begin, I just want you to know that I think you are lovely. You attempt to make conversations with those around you and even offered to help me with my purchases out to my non-existent car. I’m sure that you meant well in all things but I just want to point out what you did was enlightening but hurtful.
By Juliet Williams8 years ago in Motivation
The Comfort of Being Okay
I have come to realize that there is truly something to be said for being merely okay. As someone who has always tried to appear to be happy, this was a discovery for me. The concept of the daily lies we tell each other revealed itself to me over the summer. I started thinking about how, in today's world, it is effortless to come off as happy. We have social media, obviously, where we can easily put on a smile for the snapshot photo we post, although our followers will never really know what is behind that plastered smile.
By Josie Elizabeth8 years ago in Motivation
Evolving
I’m going to start off with a really honest statement: I have no idea what I’m doing. I, a twenty-year-old college student with a part-time job and a fiancé, am completely and utterly lost. In fact, I have never felt LESS secure in my entire life than I do right now. Why?
By Meghan R8 years ago in Motivation
Learning, Growing, and Being Grateful
I’m currently sitting on my double bed in some comfy trackies in my new duck egg blue themed, tidy room listening to "My Girl" – The Temptations through some speakers while the sun is shining in through the windows… and I’m feeling pretty grateful.
By Ali Fusi8 years ago in Motivation
Dear Diary...FML
Uprooting one's life is like going through a form of rehab. Such dramatic change can feel like you are detoxing and all attempt to control mood swings becomes harder and harder. At least, this has been my experience in the past five months. I have never been to rehab, thanks be to whomever—maybe myself, in this case. Last year, as in many people's experience, was...shit or shitty. I found myself in a situation that I could not control. Events were happening to me that were not of my choosing. So what happens when you are faced with grand upheaving life-changing circumstances that are not your own? You pack up your life and move across the country.
By meghan marshall8 years ago in Motivation
2017-2018 So Far...
A lot has happened in 2017 that I feel like only worked against me in every single way. Not to be all sad and helpless, I had the best beginning of 2017. Never thought I would ever work 2 jobs, and I ended up working 3 jobs at once. The last job was the one I least attended—still counts. I'm a lazy person, so to me that was a huge accomplishment. The least attended job became my full time job about 7 months into 2017. Since then, it's been none stop anxiety. But, the bigger picture is pretty big so I'm sticking it out. The last few weeks of 2017 made me so antsy, I couldn't wait for it to just end. I had a mental count down of 2017 since around October. It is kind of foolish for me to be waiting on a certain date to end when in reality its just another day. What else doesn't add up is that it became 2018 in Toronto, while parts of the world were already living through their 2018s. So the fact that I was relieved that it had turned 2018 at the time that I had witnessed it, made no sense at all—kind of like all of 2017. Food for thought.
By Anastasiya Dusova8 years ago in Motivation
The Fat Mirror
« I'm not enough, » « I'm not pretty enough, » « I'm too fat » … We all have, one day, looked at the mirror and thought that we weren't good enough to go out and enjoy the world around us. Instead, we put on leggings, comfy socks, wide t-shirt, and we stay at home.
By Diana Sol8 years ago in Motivation
Self-Care: Good for You, Good for Me, Good for Us!
Self-care, one of the easiest things we can do for ourselves, but yet it seems like we never have time to do it, or at least just don't seem to want to do it. Like any university student, I feel that! But hear me out, self-care isn't just pedicures and eating healthy, heck no!
By dRAKE therealnig8 years ago in Motivation
