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Are You a Lost Soul?
Introducing Your Soul I'm sure you've heard the idea that we all have souls. But what does this really mean? Consider the idea that every person is born with an individual life path with each person or aka "soul" comes a unique life with different opportunities and struggles.
By Autumn Leann7 years ago in Motivation
The Fear of Reflection
As a 29-year-old American woman of mixed descent, daughter of a lesbian, who has never met her biological father, my entire life has been about trying to figure out who I am in a society where it’s not easy to be accepted when you’re different from the “norm.” As a child I grew up in a rural Ohio town full of seemingly closed-minded people. I first realized that my family wasn’t like others when I was in elementary school. My older sister and I have the same biological father, who is African-American, and that made us two of the only “darker” kids at our school and in our small town. I never met him because he split from my mom when I was born. Strike one. Our mother, a proud Army veteran who is now very openly gay, married a man who became my adopted father. We didn’t look anything like him, or my Caucasian mother for that matter, and people noticed. Strike two. We didn’t come from great means, and I wore my sisters raggedy hand-me-downs for years. My parents had no idea how to style my kinky, fuzzy hair so I always looked disheveled. Strike three.
By Align and Incline Ash and India7 years ago in Motivation
Black Rose
Emotions are a twisted thing. They come and go whenever they please, usually in some kind of response to a situation. We have names for them: sad, excited, angry, frustrated, etc. But these names don’t do them justice. Emotions are more than words. More than the moment they are. Emotions are the colors of the human mind and spirit. Formed in such a way that you cant tell what it is. Have you ever felt red? Blue? Grey? You have. You just dont know it. Emotions are unpredictable when youre alone. When surrounded by people, its easy to fake it if the moment calls for it. Maybe your response is true. Only you will really know that. But when youre alone, you have no one to mirror. There is no ones else to tell you if you are reacting appropriately. So you dont react at all. You keep a straight face and internalize it all. You dont want to be weird, after all. Even if theres no one looking, you know what you did. When youre alone, what do you feel? Sadness? Loneliness? Isolation? Maybe. But have you ever felt happiness while alone? Not in reaction to a memory, but true, pure happiness? When everything is exactly how you want it to be and there is nothing to worry about? When you trust that everything that has happened so far has all been for a reason? When you believe that everything is going to fall correctly into place? I cant answer that for you, but I can tell you one thing. Happiness is like a black rose. So rare, so twisted, yet so magnificent and beautiful. You dont think about it because youve never seen one, but when you see it with someone else, you want it. You think of all the ways you would care for it. All the ways you would maintain it. Everything you would do to protect it. But its not yours. The question is, will you work for it? Will you try to achieve happiness? What is happiness for you? What will you do when you have it? Will you be satisfied? They say that human greed is like an endless pit. You yearn for something, but once you have it, you want something more. But what comes next? Love? Love for what? A person? A moment? A gift? Loving someone is difficult. Especially when the feelings aren’t reciprocated. You achieve your black rose and begin to pluck the petals. Loves me, loves me not. Loves me, loves me not. But when the last petal is plucked, what happens? Is that really the deciding factor? Of course it is! Unless we get an answer that we dont like. Then we try again. And again. And again. It never crosses our minds that the subject of our affection may be doing exactly what we are doing. However, the possibility that we are not their goal is a crushing reality and confrontation is a sin. So we continue the vicious cycle. Loves me, loves me not. They say that its impossible to love someone without first having self love. Another black rose. But instead of plucking the petals, this is a rose that must be maintained. Cared for. Protected. You must watch for the people attempting to snip it at the bud. But how will you do this? Cut their hands off? No... confrontation is a sin. Move away? Seems like the best answer. So you move, careful not to drop you rose and carefully maintaining it the whole way. Where will you stop? When you get where you want. But what do you want? Only you can answer that.
By Dania Diab7 years ago in Motivation
Happiness
Happiness. Everything we do as humans is influenced by this emotional state. People look for, and act to achieve each person’s individual concept of happiness. I believe it to be the most sincere and fickle of any of emotion I've ever felt. It's influenced by everything and is ever-changing for most of our lives. I could go on about virtue ethics. The idea that an action is good if it maximises happiness, and vice versa. Or I could list the different things which make me happy. Or I could do neither. The best advice I could ever give myself is to hold on to the joy I take from small things. It's the random acts of kindness which have the power to transform someone's mood from foul to fantastic. It's when someone notices that you're unhappy, and you allow yourself to be vulnerable, and you're accepted for your vulnerabilities and your shortcomings.
By Tim Cottrell7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 23
Hello! Happy day twenty-three! I hope all your journals are getting packed and your minds are getting filled with your discovery of yourself... I think that sentence made sense. I at least hope you're having fun with this. I am having a blast. I'm also learning a lot, and that's the whole point, right? Here's the quote of the day: "I hope someday to write something worth plagiarizing." - Unknown
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
The Dust of Our Bones: Pt. 4
It was a frequent stop for me and although I hated it, I was familiar with the routine. How easy it was to stop in after a work errand and grab a drink for a coworker. The corner gas station was not a place of preference, but one of convenience. Every trip inside gave me anxiety but I had learn to push it aside, grab the Big Gulp, and leave as quickly as possible.
By L M Anderson7 years ago in Motivation
The Never-Ending Story
My first blog entry on a new platform. Whoa. Cool. Okay. I’d like to let that sink in for a bit. …It’s a quiet, sort-of big moment for me. It’s not like I’ve never blogged before; I've done my time in the blog multi-verse. I just never found my footing. I expected too much from my previous blogs; expecting one blog to become an expert in being an expat and the other, an expert in life advice for 20-somethings. Both blogs still exist somewhere on the internet— long-forgotten ghosts. I gave up on them because it became overwhelming to be an "expert"and I lost the fun.
By Lauren Maxwell7 years ago in Motivation
A Kind of Friendship
This is my story of a teenage friendship that only took place on the way to school. Unlikely really given it was thirty minutes a day at the most and it was between the beautiful girl and the plain Jane. Like fish and cake a weird concept to put together yet surprisingly it worked.
By Lesley Anne Armour7 years ago in Motivation
Branded
“What do your tattoos mean to you?” He asked. They mean to remind me of how I’ve overcome. My first tattoo is across my forearm. I got this tattoo with a friend over my birthday. Each tattoo was a birthday gift, actually. After being shunned from a community that I spent two years with, I grieved so many people and things that I lost touch with my identity and purpose. I opened my Bible to read from Song of Solomon and I had this impression from God, “You are not a burden to me, you are the rose. Your weaknesses cannot intimidate me, I call you the lily.” This meant so much to me that each time I’d see it, I’d cry remembering that only an Invisible King could understand my state of pain and heal me. Not the Hallmark Card Pity or a pat on the back from a family member, but God and time and healing.
By Vivia Leigh7 years ago in Motivation
What Is Your Legacy?
On the way to work, the talk show on the radio was discussing how a family wrote a mean obituary about their mother. The children were so upset about her and some of the things she did in her lifetime that they shared them for the world to see. They went as far to say that she would not be missed!
By Rachel Ashman7 years ago in Motivation
8 Things You Should Know About Life
1. You learn from failure. As you go through the trials and tribulations of life, you'll always find yourself staring in the face of hard decisions, and when you're faced with these decisions, what would you do? Lie down and die? No, that's not an option. You'd fight back and you may lose but that's the beauty of failure, you learn from it. Mistakes only pave the way to success
By Kameron Brazzle7 years ago in Motivation
