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Why Can’t we be Friends?
When did a friendship turn into the last ship someone wants to be on? No one wants to be in the friend zone anymore, depicting it as enemy terrian to be avodied at all costs. If anyone were hit with the words ” I think we should be friends”, all of a sudden we are…
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How to Make People Feel Good About Themselves
There was a time when I didn’t want to reach out to others about my personal problems because I didn’t need help solving them (presumptuous I know) I didn’t want people knowing too much I didn’t want to bother them Looking back, I see how self debilitating these views were. They prevented me from connecting,…
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Phoebe was the best Friends character
The Friends TV show has always been one of my favourite series. If you don’t know the show, it follows a group of 7 friends through the ups and downs of life. Their jobs are jokes, they’re broke, and their love life’s DOA. But every time I rewatch the series (and thats so often I’ve…
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Passion is Overrated?
I took a deep breath as I felt weights remove themselves from my shoulder. I was never really one with a deep burning passion. Growing up I was ambivalent about where i wanted to go, what i wanted to be. Days would pass by where I would just zone out thinking “What is my passion?”.…
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When you really know who you are and what you like about yourself, changing for others isn’t such a big deal.
Has anyone watched Community? Last time i watched the show, I completely binged the series. For a goofy show filled with eccentric characters there are oddly some beautiful, yet simple quotes. The quote I present here is made by none other than the most amazing philosopher, Abed. Sometimes it’s so difficult to think of change.…
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Is such a thing as an Emerald made worse than it, was if it is not praised?
I have been trying to get into reading philosophy. Its soemthign that i loved growing up, im always ready to be engaged in a lively “what is the meaning of life” debate, but somehow i always found excuses to not read. So this quote was found from the great Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, who was…
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Alexithymia
Alexithymia is a subclinical phenomenon involving a lack of emotional awareness or, more specifically, difficulty in identifying and describing feelings and in distinguishing feelings from the bodily sensations of emotional arousal (Nemiah et al., 1976). link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/alexithymia We take understanding emotions for granted. Of course usually it does not go to the point of complete emotional…
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Brave, not Perfect
While listening to podcasts, I came across this simple line by Reshma Saujani. I could’ve done better. There were so many times I lost the beauty of an experience because I felt that I could’ve done better. Why is it that when we are trying to accomplish something we think not of what we’re doing…
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All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike
“All is ephemeral — both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.” Marcus Aurelius I first read this quote while finishing up Creatures…