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This Year, I Explore the Universe Within
When I gaze at the stars, I am held in awe. It is hard to rationalize the sheer size and vastness of the universe up above, as I gaze upon star after star. This light we see is from typically a being that no longer exists. Much like the breadth and depth of the universe, the inner workings of our minds are also a universe where exploration remains limited. This year, I am dedicated to diving deep, confidently hoping to understand more about myself and the world around me. 2021 will be all about self-exploration.
By B. Mapenzi5 years ago in Motivation
Forgiveness
As a young woman I was conditioned to see my anger as dangerous and undesirable. I remember being scolded for fighting with my sister and reprimanded for raising my voice. The irony of it is that my parents were extraordinarily comfortable expressing their anger. They casually waged war against one another and the world around them most days of the week. So, though I witnessed it, I wasn’t ever invited into it. And more than that, I learnt to be afraid of it and I felt powerless in its presence. I bypassed my anger and settled instead for expressing other emotions, the ones that were acceptable. This worked up until recently, when I discovered that I am undeniably and unequivocally pissed off.
By Kelly Venables5 years ago in Motivation
Checkpoint
The idea of a fresh start is great. A clean slate. The opportunity to learn from the past and grow. But I am 29 and this is not the first fresh start I have had. In fact, every time I do not like the story, I choose to try again, to rewrite. I have even moved halfway across the globe to completely change my narrative. For me, a fresh start is not just a beginning-of-the-year list of resolutions I intend to keep yet never do. It is a daily quest to figure out who I am and create a new reality to shirk the responsibility of facing my previous attempts which I have deemed unsuccessful. And I am growing tired of it.
By L M5 years ago in Motivation
Goodbye 2020… Hello 2021!
Okay, I’m dead certain that everyone will celebrate with me that this Professor Umbridge of a year (2020) is finally gone! Last year was a tough one, yes, but if we dwell on the past then we will forget about the future and all of the advantages it holds. So, I’m going to give you some advice on the best way to move forward from last year!
By Rosa Searle5 years ago in Motivation
Hello 2021
2020 was a hard year for everyone on a collective level. It taught us that all the things we had planned can change in a second. It taught us to slow down, it shook us to the core, and forced a lot of people to deal with demons they might have never seen in themselves before. However, although there were low low points, there were also high points. That’s how I choose to see 2020, in a more positive way. The lessons behind 2020 were unlike any year before, because not only did I learn things, the entire world learned things and there was sort of a shift of consciousness that a lot of people experienced.
By Courtney Calder5 years ago in Motivation
2021: The Year of Overcoming Self-Doubt
There is a type of therapy called Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing (EDMR). It involves a therapist using typically a finger to guide a patient's eyes side to side rapidly while the patient focuses on a disturbing memory. The theory behind EDMR is that patients can separate certain memories from the negative emotions entwined with them and then be able to process the memories without feeling distressed. The separation comes from patients being distracted by their own rapid eye movements while they recall these memories.
By Shelby Brengle5 years ago in Motivation
2021 A Year to Mend
It’s one of the biggest celebrated clichés. Every year millions upon millions of people around the world gather to make New Year’s Eve resolutions at the start of the year, only to do something even more cliché by breaking them the first chance they get. The majority of these resolutions often relating to health, wealth or some major life goal.
By Elevar Roch5 years ago in Motivation
fresh snow and soft silence
I awaken at 3:30 in the morning, and the world is silent. It is late, or extremely early depending on your point of view, but it’s usually a bit louder on the street outside. I donned a sweater and pulled on some boots with a feeling of excitement in my stomach. The weather had predicted snow, but it hasn’t snowed here in two years, so I knew better than to get my hopes up. I stepped out into the frigid January air and I find myself elated. It had snowed, and in fact was still snowing. A couple of inches at least. I breathe in deeply and try to catch hold of the magic that always comes with winter’s weather.
By Kay James5 years ago in Motivation
On My Nerves
I can feel my leg burning as I slowly wake. My head is resting on my boyfriend’s chest. Fire blooms inside my right hip and thigh and spreads down my calf. I am desperate to put it out, but something blocks my attempts. There is heavy pressure on my right hip, fanning the flames and igniting my nerves into an inferno of pain. I am still half asleep as I reach for the troubling mass leaning against my leg.
By Katelyn O’Leary 5 years ago in Motivation
Lost and Found
I am currently writing this while recovering from a concussion, the words on the page are a hazy blur, I will no doubt pay for it with a headache later. All is well. The new year was a strange one, as all things have been for the past while, but a new perspective is needed to make it through these crazy times. If not new, at least, altered. I spent the past year working too hard on things I didn’t care about, spent being the key word. I was neglecting self-care for to chase a paycheck, burning the candle at both ends to live at the whim of the dollar. There are many lessons to be learned in life and we often ignore them, turn the other way and pretend the obvious isn’t calling out to us; what we don’t know can’t hurt, right?
By Romario Ashley5 years ago in Motivation
Your Narrative is Your Narrative...
Let's be real...The year of our lord 2020 has, is, and will always be remembered as a complete dumpster fire. From demagogues to cults of personality, to untimely and difficult passings, to a pandemic that's giving the 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak a run for its money, 2020 has given no quarter in terms of the trama that's been dished out to the people that have lived through it. In some ways, 2020 has forced us to examine our collective and individual mettle in ways that we rarely explore. Honestly, many of us have failed those trials in an epic, hunger games-ish kind of way and it's hard to look at that failure with a fresh set of eyes. Well, 2020 has inevitably ended and 2021 has brought us what the beginning of every new year normally does for the bulk of humanity.
By Herbert L. Seward III5 years ago in Motivation
