Maideline Sanchez
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Fear of Knowing Who You Are
On a rainy afternoon, I was crying beneath my blanket while feeling disappointed. When my frenchy-boston noticed my distress, she climbed in bed with me and tapped my head with her right paw. Like a tootsie-roll pop, she licked away my tears as if reassuring me that everything was going to be ok. How many licks did it take to finally get me centered? None! Nothing could shake off the sadness no matter how much anyone tried.
By Maideline Sanchez5 years ago in Motivation
Fear of Knowing Who You Are
Part 1 While watching The Great Dictator--featuring Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel (Adolf Hitler)—I am reminded by a memory of the past. North Plainfield, New Jersey is where I grew up and, as any child, I imagined it as a world of surrealism with strange characters. If you've ever seen the Nickelodeon cartoon called "Hey Arnold", then you can imagine how closely knit and eccentric the community was. Well, that was the gist of my surroundings growing up with neighbors of special interests. Did we have a crazy-cat lady to go along with that? Yes and, to this day, every time I see a cat, I think back to the swarm of cats that lived in my neighbors home. Thanks crazy-cat lady for ruining my view on cats. Anyways, going back to The Great Dictator, there was another strange character that taught me a lesson about self-acceptance.
By Maideline Sanchez5 years ago in Motivation
Fear of Knowing Who You Are
If I got shanked for every time I heard the statement "your family are the ones you're born with" I would be dead...and I would rather be...because that's bull-crap. If we were to get into the semantics of family, then yes, they are your blood relatives. But looking at it from a different perspective, they are supposed to be there to support you, accept you for who you are, raise you to be a professional human being, and provide you with the basic necessities for survival. So in context, the idea of family is not always related to who you're stuck with.
By Maideline Sanchez5 years ago in Families
