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How to heal fully and properly.
I Learned But I Did Not Grow
2020 was a year unlike any other. Everyone in the world shared in each other's pain as we faced a global pandemic while each was struggling with their own troubles. I, of course, am no exception to this. Covid-19 hit during my senior year, causing me to miss out on some incredible milestones such as graduation, prom, and my freshman year of college. The isolation took a toll on my mental health, as it did many others. On top of these struggles, I faced the unimaginable as my mother was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and devastatingly passed away in August. Indeed, 2020 was a year unlike any other.
By Claire Mackey5 years ago in Motivation
Start Fresh
For 29 years I walked this planet without taking a single second to check in with myself. I filled my days with distractions and exhausted my mind chasing materialism and validation. I lied, cheated and hurt people. I don’t remember doing these things on purpose or from a place of malice, but there was also no attempt to stop. Life was always about my needs and my desires, but last year that all changed.
By Tyler Blackwood5 years ago in Motivation
2021: The Year of Milestones
Hi, my name is Bernadette. As I type this, I am currently three days overdue with my first child and am patiently waiting for her to make her grand entrance into this world. Being pregnant throughout most of 2020 has allowed me to set out goals for myself as an individual, a wife and now a soon-to-be mother.
By Bernadette Edwards5 years ago in Motivation
Sympathy
January 1st, 2021 marked an exact year of my unemployment. I felt like a hundred years have passed in the last twelve months. If you don’t have a pressure of nine to five job, you would start learning a lot about yourself. It won’t all be helpful though. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. I’m brown and first born. Yes, I have childhood issues. I grew up to be a people pleaser and a bad perfectionist. No surprise there. Well, It took me almost thirty years to come to this spiritual realization that I’m a selfish son of a b*tch. What can I say, I enjoy guilt!
By F. Patel5 years ago in Motivation
How Do I Want To Be Remembered?
God, where do I begin? This year has been excruciatingly exhausting. So much happening all at once, I just couldn't take it. I forced even more chaos upon me to distract myself from the pandora's box that was 2020. All the uncertainty and edging insanity had my spirit broken long before December came rolling around. So the New Year had no significance to me. It didn't feel like anything was going to get better, it didn't feel like it would all work out in the end. Why would it? How could it!? I had no energy to complete simple tasks, I pushed every single one of my friends away, and I didn't even want to see my family. A new year or fresh start wasn't going to rescue me from the dark abyss that had swallowed me whole. It felt like I had lost a large chunk of my identity. Every morning I stared into the mirror for minutes, only to have a complete stranger staring back. There was no shaking that feeling of being an empty vessel on autopilot just living out the rest of my pointless days...
By Deniz Aydin5 years ago in Motivation
The Alchemist
'To realize one’s destiny is a person's only obligation.' The first time I read those words was on the back cover of Paolo Coehlo’s The Alchemist, not long after stumbling into a spiral of curiosity about the meanings of life and such. It seemed to me, as an eighteen-year-old girl amidst a world-wide pandemic, that reflection was exactly what the doctor ordered, even if covid-era terms prescribed it as quarantine. The whole world was hanging on by a thread, barely sane enough to keep tragedy out of the headlines for more than a day. But all I could think about was that line, and what it meant for me in my life.
By Ky Angelika5 years ago in Motivation
No Resolutions
I didn’t have any resolutions polished and ready to go in the beginning of 2021. In fact, I distinctly remember sometime between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, sitting drunk on my couch with my fiancée, slurring something along the lines of “It doesn’t even matter, right? The world’s, like, fucked anyway - I’m gonna be easy on myself next year.” We had planned on marrying in 2020, and buying a house, and I was due for a raise. See, I’d had a stable job that I loved, which went under as soon as Covid19 hit. We lost our savings before we could even blink, and everything continued going south from that point on. So, I’d be nicer to myself next year; more forgiving of my shortcomings.
By Cat Bog5 years ago in Motivation
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
Why Growth Looks Like Destruction
Everything in life moves in cycles, not just the cycle of life, death and rebirth but cycles of increase and decrease as well. We all travel through the hills and valleys, the ups and downs, the struggles and the achievements, and it’s easy sometimes to forget that things will get better.
By Emma Jayne Lions5 years ago in Motivation
Live in your true state
It’s sometimes so difficult to believe in the universe. Especially when this is not broadcasted, you don’t learn this in schools this isn’t on the news, if this is something that you never come across in your life then you will live a life in not enough state. If I told you, you could have everything! Would you believe me?
By Sophie Rose 🌹 5 years ago in Motivation
