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Be Happy
Really all we can ask of the world is, for short periods of time, to be happy. Goodnight everyone.
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The Continued Misdialings of Lorenda
About two years ago, I purchased a new phone, and with that phone I got new phone number. I loved that phone and still have the same number. One unfortunate aspect of this number though, is that it is...
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Grey Areas
One aspect of life I find both troublesome and beautiful is its ambiguity. Rarely do we find simple and accurate concepts within our world. There seems nearly to always be an exception for every rule,...
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My Future
I suffer an internal struggle of whether or not goal-setting is the right form of self motivation for me. Currently I am of the opinion that, yes, it is. So here is what I want in my near future...
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Do We Make a Difference?
The question of whether or not our lives and choices makes a difference in the world is a one that we all must ask ourselves at one point. From a cosmic perspective, I am inclined to say ‘no.’ What we,...
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Why Leave a Legacy?
Upon writing my last post I was struck with a question with which I’m still grappling. I thought, “why do we all want to leave some scrap of ourselves? Why do we want to live forever?” Frankly, I don’t...
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Religious Apathy
I often identify myself as an atheist but I feel the term does not accurately describe my religious views. Rather, I find myself more of a religious apathist than anything. The term ”atheist” seems to...
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Mao is Like Life
I just learned to play a new card game called Mao (presumably after the chairman). This particular game’s rules change every time you play it and only one player knows all the of rules at the...
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Our Most Valuable Time
I have recently been brought to notice how much of my time I spend doing things that I do not value and this has led me to try to use the time I have more wisely. After all, we all only have a finite...
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Visiting City Lights Bookstore
On the last day of my trip to San Francisco I visited the City Lights Bookstore. This small shop nestled between little Italy and Chinatown is know for being a common meeting place of the great beatnik...
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Wasted Time
So much of our time is wasted. And I’m not talking about the netflix, video game, television type of wasted. I mean all that time we spend being afraid, worrying about whether or not we’re good enough,...
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Uninspired
Today, I feel uninspired. Maybe I’m getting a little burnt out and need to take an off day. Between working on my novel, writing freelance, and writing on this blog I am writing 5,000 to 8,000 words...
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We Figure it Out
Today I wanted to write some sort of pity party about how I was being victimized by the universe for, I don’t know, trying to be happy. And frankly, I’m tired of it. I’m tired of pretending I have a...
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Freedom and Security
While I was in Paonia, I listened to one of the creators of the off-the-grid homestead I was staying at explain why he and his friends decided to create it. He mentioned that it was not for...
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You’re Okay
One aspect of life I am currently coming to terms with is that I am not, in fact, the butt some sort of cosmic joke. I seem to have begun my life thinking it to be a tragedy and just now I am realizing...
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Enjoy Life
In our society, we seem to have this drive to always move forward. We go from elementary school to middle school to high school to college, then we work and work and desperately try to scramble to the...
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War
With the business with Syria in the news, I’ve been thinking a lot about war and our justifications for it. I am no warrior, nor general, nor president but I am human. And as human beings I think most...
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You Can Only Really Control Yourself
Life is crazy. The world is crazy. Hell, people are crazy. This brief experiment with self awareness that we are all on right now is filled with chaos and we can’t fix very much of it. In fact, it...
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Evolving Thoughts On Meaning
Over the year, my opinions on the meaning of life have changed slightly. For a long time now, I have considered the root of life’s meaning to be happiness yet now I think this may be a flawed goal...
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The Choice to Live
As humans, the only known creature to experience life in an entirely will-minded sort of way, we are bound to make choices in our lives. In fact, one could distill the life of any human into two basic...
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