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"Bless You" vs "Damn You": Should We Show Compassion to Bad Drivers?
“What the hell are you doing, a******? Did you forget how to drive?” My blood pressure shot up as a car swerved from the center lane and cut me off to take the exit off the freeway. It was at least the fifth recklessly stupid thing I had witnessed in twenty minutes.
By Rose Bak 6 years ago in Motivation
A Penny for your Future
I came from a poor family, one that had many children alongside me, always struggling to get by day in and day out. We do however have quite a few rich relatives, ones who lived life in a comparatively luxurious way, in our eyes at least.
By ReinStriver6 years ago in Motivation
Goals For The New Year
This year I aim to be both mentally and physically better than I’ve ever been before. Last year was not only a rough year for me (due to personal reasons as well), but I am sure it has been difficult for everyone else, especially due to covid. Many people have lost their motivation to do so many things they used to do and I am definitely one of them. So, to offset that overwhelming and dark year, I plan to better myself in both mental and physical aspects.
By Jennifer6 years ago in Motivation
You Are Your Customer
There was a collective 'turning the corner' moment as the clock ticked down and we bid good riddance to 2020. I certainly felt it, did you? That emotional roller coaster, life threatening, mentally challenging year that we just escaped by the skin of our teeth was officially behind us, once and for all. Get thee behind me!
By Heidi Bacon6 years ago in Motivation
New Year, New Life
A new year. This year is the first year in 10 years I will live alone. The first year in 10 years I am able to make my own decisions, and live my own life. First time for what seems like centuries I am free. Resolutions seem weak paltry things for the number of things that have changed in my life as of 2021. You see, my husband, a man I was married to when I was too young to legally drink and I gave a third of my life to, decided he would rather have one of my friends than me. I can no longer feel this as a loss, the losing is done and has been cemented in three weeks of bargaining. The pain was felt during holidays not only spent without family due to Covid-19, but without tradition 10 years in the making. 2021, is time for healing. Time for living forward, but keeping full record and knowledge of the past, not to be possessed by it but to learn from it. I am done being a pawn and possession, a good wife, quiet, only to be stepped on to achieve satisfaction, or get something. 2021 I will learn what it feels like to actually be loved, to have people care, for caring sake not for the sake of what they can get if they seem caring. I am once again allowed to cut my hair, and have friends, to listen to music I love, and heal because I can once again believe I am worth healing, caring for, and having friends. This is my fresh start. My life has been scraped down to foundations, and my proverbial fields torched by a man and a friend I loved. However, as after a brush fire, the green sprouts are pushing back through and in a few months the only signs of fire, will be the snags and even they may still yet live. My life is all a new start. This is a story free of politics, for when your house is burning, you pay little attention to your neighbor’s flood. 2020 for me started well, I went back to school, I began to live again. 2021 is rewriting that history, showing me my own blind trust and the lies I believed. As the cow who was bought for a taste of milk, and then imprisoned for a life an open gate, though it be wreathed in thorns, is sweet for its promise of freedom, no matter the marks left. I have found my companions, friends who stayed away because of a man they didn’t like to hear speak and herald his own intelligence. A dog, new to me, but also left like me, banished from what he thought would be his forever home. We are the rejects he and I, we are building our own life, trapped by time and responsibility, but free to live as we see fit. My new year is a herald of a new life, building my own future, with permissions neither begged, nor bestowed. I rebuild who I was before, before the 10 years of ham handed reshaping, when my personality was my own. Though now older, wiser, and more understanding of the flaws of others, as I have been shown many of mine. My resolutions are to learn to forgive, without the curse of forgetting. To live not having to ask permission, and to not apologize for being alive. To realize that I am not the problem, even though I have many, and I do not and did not deserve for my world to be demolished. However, I am determined to be made better for it. To be unashamed of the person I am becoming, finding value in me and not relying on the evaluation of others. These are not resolutions, not truly, they are survival. They pit me for the bad days. Some days are like open wounds, everything hurts. These are my poultice and bandage, a shield for the days when things seem like I am drowning. So these resolutions are for the good days when I can feel the ground beneath my feet and smell the freedom in the air, as well as the bad when I wake up in the morning and wonder how my heart doesn’t clatter when it beats as its nothing more than broken pieces. I have been broken, but I will not stay that way, instead I will be reforged, standing under my own power sustained by a religious faith like an oak, defiant of my pain. Happy New Life.
By Laura Killgore6 years ago in Motivation
How to Love Yourself
I began 2020 in a clouded fairy tale romance that swept me off my feet on a daily basis. Looking at it now, I was the girl in love with the un-employed gamer boy who relied on his parents money for rent and food, classy. I, of course, was able to reap some of those benefits of eating out whenever I wanted to and not really worrying about paying the rent. As much as I enjoyed living without worries of money or constant love affirmations, I now realize, post break-up, I had set myself up for failure in the self-care department. I relied on this boy for everything and he didn't really give me anything of long-term value. I tightly held on to everything he gave to me and it still wasn't really enough...
By madeline higdon6 years ago in Motivation
The END of a RAVEN SOCIETY
As society begins to feel the overwhelming sensation to go. Literally, to just go anywhere. But,everywhere seems unfamiliar. The light is not right. The people are not outside. "Where is the business where are the parks"? You may ask yourself. The warnings came with a disease and now we are even more glued to our phones. We have become the follower leading to nowhere. Scared of what we cannot see we stay hidden. As raven's in the dark, not even a step or you could die tomorrow. The average american could have figured out that you can die at any second. Life was already on the line for us. The working class. The people who fight for their bread and damn well better be happy we can put it on the table. Yeah that bread. That was America. Now we are scared and withered about the fact that we are not in control. No money or wish could bring to life if death is around it stays. They say thats how the virus is. Let us all say it is. Well social distancing is good. The governments are doing what they can to control the aspect of this terrible nightmare. Let us pray that we not loose faith and keep our heads above water. No one! I repeat No one can take what is our or tell us how to live our lives. But we can choose to help another fellow neighbor than to sit like raven in the dark scared of what might happen. Life is short make worth it!
By Andrés Muñoz6 years ago in Motivation
Fresh start 2021
To say 2020 was difficult, would be the largest understatement of all time. Mentally, emotionally, physically and financially 2020 was incredibly taxing. No pun intended. Sadly we are not out of the woods just yet. However; let's focus on moving forward. And let's try to learn from this year to improve for the years to come.
By Dyllon Rodillon6 years ago in Motivation
