Samantha Parrish
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Stories (201/0)
I’m still confused about online dating
I’ve written some pieces before about my frustrations with online dating and I even wrote a piece where I was so exasperated with online dating that I felt that there was no hope to go on there because of these certain responses that I would get that disheartened me. And it’s not just me, I can imagine it’s the same for a lot of people that put themselves out there for online dating and you get a mixed bag of responses.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Confessions
The Best Piece Of Candy I Ever Had
I’ve been sad for most of my life, I had to find ways to comfort myself and do little things to make myself feel better. Most of that was in the form of a piece of candy I would have a little basket and I would take one before I went to bed, I would have a couple in my pocket and hope it didn’t melt before I could eat it. There’s a distinction between using food to come for yourself and then using food to fill a void. I never treated food to fill a void, it was just something to make me feel better for five minutes and then I could bounce back and never develop an unhealthy eating disorder.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Confessions
Venom Was Worth The Wait
Remember when people were finicky about Heath Ledger playing Batman's nemesis? The surprise came to many when Heath Ledger gave a powerhouse performance that set the bar. When the news about a full-feature movie about Venom, the treatment was the same, most Marvel fans dismissed the film.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Geeks
Lara Lark: The Real Ethereal Musician
It has never ceased to amaze me to know that there are published authors and albums published in local shops in my area. It is remarkable to see someone go through with their dream to be a creator. It’s remarkable to me because I’ve always known about music through the radio and TV. Someone who has gotten to a global effect, but I gotta tell you the most powerful thing is seeing someone’s accomplishments on the shelf to be discovered before it takes off. This artist I have listened to talked to and had the opportunity to spread the word of her enchanting, ethereal sounds. I’m grateful that I got the chance to talk into reach out to this musician before she gets famous because I do not doubt that the singer is going places.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Beat
How Wham’s Everything She Wants Taught Me How To Be A Woman
In the summer of 2011, before I would enter my Junior year of high school, I was sixteen years old shopping with my mother, and I heard this song that I heard before. My mom is a Wham! fan and put her songs on my MP3s for me to listen to. The song hit differently than when I first heard a snippet of it in my cheap headphones on the school bus, and now listening to it in the overhead speakers of Dress Barn. I was old enough to understand it. It struck me like it was a song that I needed to listen to now because it had a catchy beat but it had a message behind it that I couldn’t let go of. The lyrics are very self-explanatory it’s about a man that becomes exasperated and exhausted with the constant demands of what his selfish girlfriend wants. When he is told that she’s pregnant with his child, he knows he’ll just be working even harder to provide for two when he can barely provide for her. Even though he is trying his best, the best isn’t good enough for her because she wants more, hence why the song is called Everything She Wants.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Beat
The Unpurchaseable Songs of The 1980s
The 80s is my favorite decade of music, my mother is the one to thank for that. My life changed at three years old when she sat me down on the family couch to listen to what it was she found all these years for music. She couldn't wait to show me her songs and share them with me. Ever since then I'm still chasing that retro wave of music. As I got older to chase that wave, I found many hidden gems that never got their day. Even in this day where society is now celebrating the past, these parts of the past haven't been celebrated. If you have been looking for more of the past, I have this to present to you.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Beat
How A Bathroom Mishap Gave Me The Best Material For Stand Up
I am known as the punisher, the one-woman show, the Sami show that runs for 24 hours. I was told to do stand-up many times, and I toyed with the idea until I knew I wanted to do it for myself. I thought, "Why not, I'll do it one time".
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Confessions
Retail Tales: The Customer who thought he was a comedian
Your first job, can teach you a lot, and not in the sense of how you can no work ethic but how you can work under stress, under duress, and dealing with people that don’t know that you were just doing your job.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Confessions
To The Kids Who Didn't Want To Be Friends With Me
We look back at those playground days of laughter, running in the sports field, and sitting in the field to make necklaces out of the flowers we didn't know were weeds. That was my school, the sports field was used for recess while the playgrounds were being built for the Elementary school. The kids at my school knew how to make the most of it. There was an amalgamation of activities, and that sports field became an imagination of activities. Recess wasn't just playtime, games, and flowers, it was thirty minutes of lessons about who your friends were and weren't. It was a lesson outside of the classroom.
By Samantha Parrish2 years ago in Psyche