Brittney Mckinney
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I know that I am not the best writer on here or any writing platform but I do have a unique to me point of view and I would like to share it with whoever is willing to read it, I mostly like writing fiction but will share my opinion too.
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Throwback Society
Greetings people, I see you made it this far in my story, congrats to you, and I hope you enjoy what comes next; today we are going to talk about dating in the year 2031 and how the crash affected how people meet and fall in love. So I guess you may be wondering what happened to the dating apps if there was no more internet, well it’s simple, most of the app companies just closed up shop but a few decided to open a few of them in major cities. The big names thought it would be a great idea to open match-making shops around the country to still try to help people find love; I can’t lie I tried a few but they got so expensive that I had to quit. Just like with the apps the micro-transactions will get you, you have to pay to get a consultation, you have to pay to see potential matches, and you have to pay to get these matches information. Most people just gave up on the dating app stores and just decided to go back to doing things the pre-internet way, going out to bars and clubs to try to meet people; I tried that too but to no avail, so I just gave up on finding love for now.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Fiction
Living the Life you Want
If you don’t like the way life is going change it, is what I tell myself when I feel like life is not going how I want it to go; you have the ability to make life any way you want, all you have to do is believe and work hard enough that people’s opinions won’t matter. Life is too short to live how other people want you to live, is something else that is always said to people when they feel like society is forcing them t live a certain way. Nothing in this world is worth your happiness including false validation from a society that cares so little about you; these people would rather see you fall than lift you up and help you on your life’s journey. There are steps that you can take to live the life that you want and be more independent from the shackles of society and their written and unwritten rules that they feel people have to follow in order to be accepted. Step one is to give up the idea that society cares about you or what you think, the next step is to start doing things that make you more comfortable with who you are as a person, and finally, just give up caring about what people think.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Motivation
American Black Woman
There are many things about me that make me unique to my fellow counterparts, my sense of humor, my style of dress, and how I handle certain situations, however, the thing that makes me the most unique is being a black woman in America. Black women are as far down the list as you can get because of the labels that are placed upon us, like the angry black woman or loud and ghetto, these are things that could be true for some but not all. It’s not just how we act either it’s also how we represent ourselves whether it be the way we wear our hair to the type of clothing that we choose to dress in, we are looked at as less than because of it. Now here is where we really get down to it because we are looked at with so much animosity by not only other races and ethnicities but by our own as well with having to compete for jobs and resources. Being a woman is hard right now but being a black woman is even harder because we are looked at to be these strong independent women who can do it all and that may be true sometimes but not all the time and not always for the right reasons.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Viva
The Wonderful World of Me
Welcome back, now that we have learned that my childhood was one big ass mess of undiagnosed ADD and ADHD with a lot of anxiety thrown in for good measure, let’s talk about what it was like figuring this all out as an adult. When you are a child, you don’t know what is going on with you, you made to believe that it’s typical kid hating school stuff, so they say to focus more and pay attention but that doesn’t help. That is what happened to me, told to focus more and try to pay attention better; meanwhile, I am having the hardest time trying to sit still in class and not wet myself from other issues that I had. When looking back on my childhood and the behavior I showed, the realization that something was wrong comes to mind, but with no idea where to look for answers, a roadblock is hit and a new route must be taken. The real concern is not finding a place to start it’s finding the money to pay for it when the place is found, most places want you to pay for their services and I don’t have the money right now.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Psyche
A Woman's Journey to Self Discovery
Welcome back to my journey of figuring out who I am, my journey is still going on so this is just what I know so far; I thought I was straight but I since realized that I am not and now I want to figure out what that means as far as my life goes. When I realized that I might be bisexual I thought I was going to feel this huge revelation but I just felt the same, I could say that it was a big adjustment for me but it wasn’t, this was just one more thing about me. I wish I could be like those people who have a great clarifying moment where they are sitting in their room and it just hits them and have this breakdown because they are so scared to say it out loud. I had a dream one night, and then a few weeks later had another dream and after that, I was like huh, I guess I like both men and women and that was the end of that, I didn’t cry or feel scared about it. Sometimes we have a tendency to over-exaggerate a story because we think that people will want to hear it that way but in truth people just want you to be honest with them about your truth.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Pride
Throwback Society
Welcome back to throwback society; today, we talk about the loss of social media and the effect on people's ability to interact with one another in a non-formal setting, we're also talking about where social media is going and how we can bring it back. We are starting with social media because that was one of the hardest things people had to give up; most people's routines consisted of getting up and scrolling Instagram or Facebook. The convenience of having all this information right at your fingertips was something people utilized, although not always for the right reasons, with some of those reasons being on the selfish side. I can honestly say that I was one of those people who used it as a way to keep track of what my ex was doing; I liked knowing what they were up to and commenting on a picture or two. The only good thing about no social media was not having ads shoved down our throats or thinking that our searches were being used as a way to trick us into buying a bunch of stuff we would regret buying later.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Fiction
The Pressures of Being a Woman
For a long time, I thought that I was going to get married and have a few kids but as time went on I started to realize that I don’t want that for myself; I am one of those people who realized early that marriage and kids were not for me and that is OK. I have come to the conclusion that having kids and a husband or wife is not in the cards for me; I like my space and I like being able to do things for myself and not have to worry about other people. You see the commercials for the wedding rings and the pregnancy tests and you start to think if maybe there is something wrong with you because you don’t have that urge to go out get those things. Being a woman is hard enough without feeling like I have to change my whole world to fit some societal norm that states that having a family will somehow complete me as a person, I don’t have time for that.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Viva
The Wonderful World of Me
Hello to the ones choosing to read this, I know that you don’t know me or even care about what I have to say but I want to say thank you in advance for taking the time to find out a little more about me and my struggles with mental health and I hope that this helps at least one person. I want to start with my childhood and how the way I was raised affected my views and approach to mental health because I believe that the way a child is brought up will affect the way they see things. When I was growing up I had a few issues that ran the gambit from actual medical issues to more learning issues and some stuff in between. As far as the learning issues went I had a hard time concentrating in class and I would spend a lot of the time just thinking about other things and going from one thing to another, I got a lot “she daydreams a lot” and “has a hard time staying on task”. I couldn’t help it, I would try to focus on work but I would start to think about something and then I was distracted and before I realized what was going on we were on to something else.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Psyche
A Woman's Journey to Self Discovery
Talking about the subject of sexuality is not something I’m very good at because I’m used to hiding who I am; it isn’t that I’m afraid of my family, I just don’t see it as their business who I chose to be with, and for the most part, I thought I was straight. For a long time, I assumed I was heterosexual and I would grow up and do all the things that come with that, like having kids and getting married and I was prepared for that. I had a certain view on bisexuality that as I got older began to contradict themselves; I was like most people who thought that those people were just being greedy and that they were just trying to hide who they really were. Don’t get me wrong there are lots of people who use bisexuality as a shield, it’s like they think that if they say they are bisexual then they can still have somewhat of a normal life. However, they soon realize that hiding who they are is never the answer and they drop the shield and just be themselves; whether that is straight or gay it doesn’t matter just as long as you are happy and can look yourself in the eye and be ok.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Pride
Throwback Society
Hello to whoever is reading this, my name is Aleasha and I will be your guide into the wonderful world post-internet, you see ten years ago there was this huge power surge that knocked out the power to the whole world and when the power was brought back the internet was not. There were many attempts to bring the internet back but every attempt caused a new power outage so for the sake of everyone in the world the internet was just left alone. It was relatively easy for people to go back to not having the internet because of how new it really was, there were a few that needed a little more time to deal with the fact that didn’t have the internet to rely on anymore. Me being a 40-year-old woman can remember what both sides were like; I can remember having to go places to see and talk to people and I can also remember being able to video chat. As I said earlier I am here to help you to understand what life is like now that we are in a permanent throwback Thursday and how that has affected things like social media, dating, and even google.
By Brittney Mckinney4 years ago in Fiction
Finding the Strength to Stand up
Standing up for what you believe in can be hard when everyone is telling you that doing so will hurt you in the long run, however, letting your opinion be known will always help not only you but those around you know that they can say what needs to be said. It can be difficult to know when the right time is to speak your mind, most people will pick a time of turmoil and talk about that, and when things are somewhat good not say anything at all. If this is how you feel then you say so no matter when the time is, life is too short to live a box only coming out when it suits you or you can be heard the loudest. Quietly sitting back while others struggle to get their point across when you could join them and make a loud statement that people will hear for miles around is only going kill a piece of your soul. Speak on the issues that matter to you and don’t let others try to stop you from getting your message out to the ones who need hear it; at the end of the day what will be left when you are dead and gone are the messages that you left and the impact that they had on the people that heard them.
By Brittney Mckinney6 years ago in Motivation
A Slow and Steady Race to the End
The end seems like it is already upon us and we just don’t know it yet, with all the events of the year that have happened its no wonder the world is shutting down, a culmination of all the events throughout history shows us that this was going to happen sooner or later. Natural compounded with man-made disasters helped to bring this end on faster than it would have if we had not driven the planet into a spiral of self-destruction. Mixing that with the constant violence of those in a position of power who feel it is their right to act any way they want and shout self-defense or use the excuse of thinking someone was a threat. This constant flow of horror has now reared its ugly head again in all the looting and escalated violence from not just police but citizens alike which only serves to further move the needle into the empty spot. This race to the end of the road is a slow one but a steady one none the less and we as a people will not live long enough to see the climb back from the brink if we continue on this path of destruction and death.
By Brittney Mckinney6 years ago in Motivation
