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The Journey Thus Far
As a young man, my passion was bottomless and universal. I have specific memories of bringing levity to tense situations, being truly unaffected by the burdens of negativity. Difficult realities slowly eroded this sense of joy and the desire to spread it. I feel happens with most people. I have always had the feeling of a ship beset by harsh weather the moment safe harbor disappears over the horizon.
By Alex Rangel5 years ago in Journal
Top ways MBA can helpful in the private equity careers
Private equity is considered an appealing career destination for several business professionals, offering high salaries, exciting travel opportunities, and the chance to be involved in the rise of the next large company.
By Aileen Scott5 years ago in Journal
The Choice Paradox: How I Finally Wrestled It Down and Chose a Viable Niche. Top Story - June 2021.
A storyteller, writer, helper, peer counselor, friend, financial coach, musician, educator, entrepreneur, mother, widow, and so much more. How to niche that down to fulfill my purpose(s) on this earth has been the quest of the past several years of my life. With so much to give, so much value to share, and a burning desire to do it all; I have wrestled with the paradox of too many choices.
By Maria Calderoni5 years ago in Journal
Here I Am
I have loved fashion for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid rocking my jazzy outfits, I felt better about myself; I stood taller and walked more confidently. I saw myself as handsome, debonair, and invincible. Through the years, nothing has changed. I still find fashion to be transformative and often my outward appearance influences the way I feel on the inside.
By Wilbur Pack Jr5 years ago in Journal
Music is my Life and Love
Throughout my life since the age of six I can remember playing the piano for the first time, the feel of the ivory keys against my fingers felt amazing. My idol at the time was Billy Joel I just loved the sound of the piano. I took lessons for many years. As I got older, I decided to join the school band by playing the flute, the following year I chose the trumpet. When I hit high school, I decided to drop band and I started to sing in the choir. I since then have had nothing but love for music. With listening to it and playing it as well as singing I could not feel a deeper love for anything. I am now forty-two and I am in the progress of going back for music production. I love to write lyrics mix beats and soon I will be learning how to put my lyrics and music together. I can feel the music flowing through my bones. When I close my eyes, I do not just hear the music I can see it too. It is almost like I am floating along the colorful music swirls in my mind. Music makes me feel like I am in a whole different world. No matter the mood I am in it can calm me, make me cry, get me revved up to want to just dance or sometimes it can make me angry. Music can make you feel what the artist is feeling almost like a tv show you can feel what the people are feeling. As for me music just calms my nerves and puts me in a better mood because I listen to all different types of styles and genres of music, I mainly choose songs that I can relate to. Music is my life always has been I love to listen to it, play it as well as sing which maybe one day I will have the courage to post a video of my singing. In fact, I tried out for Americas Got Talent last year and made it but when I got the call to go to New York City I could not make it due to two fractured knees. I was very disappointed. I tried again for this current season, but I just chose the wrong song for the director’s cut and did not know that I could not sing with my music, so it was a little nerve racking for me since I was practicing so hard with the music with me. Some songs I can sing without music but when it comes to opera, I need the music with me. I will try again next season knowing now what I know I will choose a song that I know I can sing without music backing me up. I am always the one sitting in the car singing and putting music on in the shower and singing in there too. To me music really can save the soul. It can make things hurt less, maybe more at times, but it will always calm me in the end put me back into a normal state of mind and less stressed. Going through so much with my own problems and now a relative of my boyfriend stole my keys and took my car then she crashed and totaled my car. A suspended license and no insurance of her own now leaves me without a car. All my doctor appointments had to be canceled and the car was not paid off, so my insurance paid off the car and the deductible which now leaves me with nothing. No money no life now also an eviction notices to rid myself of her. I am tired of being nice and well now I am going to just concentrate on me myself and I. My writing and my schoolwork. I am hoping once she is gone my life will get better and my relationship since she had weaseled herself into this house and our life my relationship has almost hit rock bottom. So, with the little strength I have left I shall depend on my music to get me through this and move forward and onward and be the happy woman I used to be.
By Stephanie Lyn5 years ago in Journal
Why I Hated Writing Most of My Life and What Changed My Mind
Before I start into what my passion is I feel that I need to start by talking about how I absolutely hated it for most of my life. Starting in elementary school writing is a normal part of school, writing in some form almost everyday. In early classes they just teach how to write different letters with the large lines so you can figure out how letters look and fit on the page and how words are put together. At that point in school my opinion on writing was that it was my least favorite subject, but who really would like something like that, with no stories or narratives being worked on yet there wasn’t much to like. Also around this time was when we learned cursive, or script depending on where you are from. At the time the teachers told us that it was essential to learn cursive but within a few years it had faded out of the curriculum to never be written by me again. Continuing on through the early years, learning spelling, sentence structure and how to write a proper five paragraph essay I never liked any of it along the way. I understood that technology would be able to assist with pretty much every aspect of writing that we were learning in english class so I never cared to listen. Then in Jr. high the only thing from english class I remember was essays, reading speed and comprehension. I don’t think I ever had the freedom of picking my own topic for essays until about junior year of high school. By then I was so burned out from meaningless five paragraph essays for years I could never come up with a topic to write about or so I thought.
By Jared Laws5 years ago in Journal
Square PEGgy...doesn't fit in
How many hills must I climb to be noticed, appreciated, regaled in this human society? As a female minority, all obstacles are against me. I’ve been striving but getting knocked down and back all of my life to this point. They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but, having been here for almost fifty years, I still don’t feel “made” yet, and I don’t know how much more my body, mind or spirit can take.
By RON ANDERSON5 years ago in Journal
Around and around
Remember when as a kid you would spin around in the kitchen in your socks? Maybe you had siblings and would sneak around to scare them as they went to their room. No? Just me? Well that was what I did as a kid and truthfully, I still spin around my kitchen in my socks as I am cooking. For over 17 years I danced. My parents put me in ballet and tap classes when I was around 2 or 3 years old. I always wanted to jump around and spin to all kinds of music. I continued dancing until I was old enough to begin competing. I was around 8 at the time and had expanded my genres into lyrical, hip hop, jazz, and musical theatre. This was where my love for dance grew from something my parents had me doing to being something for me to meet friends and have fun every day. Don't get me wrong there were definitely the bad days and classes that I liked less than others. When I was younger I didn't like ballet, I thought it was boring. My ballet teacher used to be a russian ballerina and was much harder on technique than any 8 year old wants. She was very tough but also the best ballet teacher I have had to date. As I grew older I enjoyed her class more and more, even though my flexibility wasn't the best in the class, I strived to have the best technique. I competed until I was 18 and although competition season was always a stressful time for me, as soon as I was on the stage nothing else mattered. The moment the music started it was just me and how I was feeling that day. There are days that a single dance could have me in tears with how much passion I let out on the stage. There have been several times that I had others that had watched my dances come up to me to let me know how they had felt watching me perform. There is a level of passion that I had with competing that would leave me feeling like all the stress had left my body and wouldn't be coming back for the rest of the day at least. It has been several years now since I last competed, but the passion is still there as I have now experienced other types of dance that I hadn't before. From my dance studio I also received some acting training. I was able to audition and earned a spot with a haunted house that runs during the spooky months of September and October. Although I am no longer competing and training in dance, I still keep myself limber as I have been with this haunt for over 6 years now and don’t plan on leaving anytime soon. I plan a costume several months to a year in advance so that I can make any tweaks or order any custom parts prior to the beginning of meetings for the season. There are so many people who feel the same as I do and keep coming back to make people scream every year. The skills that I learned from dance and still utilize have helped me with my craft of scaring people although not the traditional kind of craft you may have been expecting, it is my own and the thing I look forward to and work on the most every year. You start off with a character, whatever you think might be scary. For the longest time I was afraid of clowns, so one of my main characters is a ringmaster. You can decide from there to be intimidating, creepy, or a jump scare. I tend to switch between all three depending on the group that is passing or which character I am playing that night. Does your character talk? Only make weird noises? It is completely up to the scarer. How do you walk crouched over, straight backed as if floating, crawling on the ground, or maybe you hobble like an old man. These are all the starting points for character creation. I have gone through many different creatures and have several memories to go with each. Just like with dancing, every night when I put on my costume and makeup nothing else matters. Unfortunately that does mean I have twisted my ankle several times as I was chasing groups through a cornfield. I look forward to each season and the screams that follow.
By Morgan Tucker5 years ago in Journal
