Tag: choices
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Your Redemption Arc is Coming
CW: Therapy, depression, Do you know the point in every romantic comedy when the main character hits rock bottom? They sit in sweatpants, wallowing in their sadness, eating junk food as they cry. For the past few years, I have been a few inches from rock bottom. I started counseling last year to develop better ... -
Game Of Choices
New chapters in life are both exciting and terrifying. My best friend and I are currently house hunting. I’m thrilled to be getting a house where I don’t have to worry about a lease renewal, and my roommate and I can remodel the house to fit our needs. The next place I move will be ... -
Your Personal New Year
This year has not started as I imagined at all. I expected there might be another mandatory quarantine because of people wanting to celebrate the New Year the way they do every year. This year just seems like it’s going to be a very violent one if the first few weeks are any indication. I’m ... -
Free Thought
I don’t think people like it when you disagree. I guess we should all be the same, you and me. We should all wear the same hairstyle Put on all black clothes We should all no doubt smile, the girls made to stand on their tip toes. Boys should only wear blue, not ... -
It Only Takes One Person
I have spent a lot of time in recent weeks thinking about how one moment can affect the course of a story. The person the protagonist smiled at on page two can end up being the love of their life. This happens, in reality, all of the time. My own best friend and I met ... -
What It Means To Be Kind To Myself
I am on a mission to learn how to be more kind to myself. It isn’t about giving in to junk food or going out shopping. Treats are necessary, but what I want to work on is rewarding myself in ways that don’t cost a lot of money, or come at the cost of my ... -
Grieving A Loss By Choice
“Why be that upset? It isn’t as if he’s died.” “It sucks, but you deserve to be happy.” “Get over it and move on.” Losing someone you care about is quite possibly the hardest thing we experience as humans. It can be made even harder when that loss is felt not by death but by ... -
Time Will Not Wait
Every action reacts, and time is precious — something we cannot understand at times. Time is a valuable thing, yet we procrastinate. Procrastination is human nature, isn’t it? Don’t want to do something now; there’ll be time to do it later. If you don’t want to make that phone call right now, put it off, ... -
Ego Trip
Ruination approaches, Heavy with truth and guilt. The knowledge I have brought this upon myself. Youth and foolish choices Consequences wrought, Headstrong ignorance those signs, forgot. Pretending, I was assured victory I took the ego trip quickly. So, I made it all about me, My world, my reality, Instead of seeing things As ... -
Grow Wild To Be Free
I am working from home to build my business. It takes a lot of time and energy. When I schedule some time away to be at social events or with friends, I try to make it enjoyable. I look forward to catching up with my friends when our paths cross. If there is time for ...
