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I am Currently Writing Two Books at the Same Time!
In 2007 I began thinking about my life as it has been and at the ripe old age of 43 I discovered that my life was a lot more... OK, a few notches above... a Harlequin Novel. Juicey stuff. Ka-Ka-KaarAAAaaaAAzzzeee stuff. It was around then that so many perils had flooded into my life. Addiction; Porn career; Gay Marriage; Music career as one of the very best drummers in the Land, sitting on my drum throne at the helm of the absolute finest RUSH Tribute Band in Canada(I kid you freaking NOT! It's TRUE and it's all over YouTube. 'Test4Echo' - look it up!).I gave up my Career in Hotel and Restaurant Management, right as I was nearing the goal of working as Management in the finest Hotel in my hometown of Victoria BC Canada - The Empress Hotel. I was a Bartender. I made a lot of money. I loved the job. But I got pulled away when THE UNIVERE decided to make my VERY FIRST BAND WORLD-FUCKING-FAMOUS... and get this- it was a freaking SPEED METAL BAND! At the time I just married two drumming styles - Neil Peart and Dave Lombardo and wha-lah! Instant progressive speedy DRUMMING perfection. (Later in life, one of the guitarists who shall not be named because we don't mention him or the band around Terry anymore...because said guitarist wrote a song. It was simply titled 'TERRY'. It was all about my sexuality.
By Terry Groom7 years ago in Motivation
Down The Rabbit Hole...
I have seen all of this coming. I have had dreams of some kind of apocalypse for over 2 decades. The how, where, why and visuals were always different. The hauntings "picking up", things on the "other" side tried and tried to warn people (only to be accused of being evil), the fires in Australia, the floods in Australia, the tornadoes ramping up, the Coronavirus... All of it. I started journaling at the beginning of this year. I can't logically tell you why but I knew I needed to start writing down what was going on and what I was "seeing". All of the apocalypse dreams I have had, are all happening at the same time, in sequence. I have been dreaming non-stop since about August. In September, they really ramped up. I have been warning people since 2016 that "shifts" were coming. Not the end of the planet but shifts. Changes. Some are not going to make it. You don't have to be "religious" (which I am FAR from), to believe in some sort of apocalypse. This isn't about global warming either or vaccines. This is about things people refuse to acknowledge, that exist. I am now really starting to understand why I have gone through all the things I have dealt with in life. It made me a survivor. It taught me discernment about the people I surround myself with. It taught me when to use my empathy and when to shut it off, to save myself. It taught me how to hide, how to hunt, what I want out of life, how to make the best out of any situation. Do I care that people are dying from the things that are going on? Well yes. I care because people didn't listen. I care because I tried to warn people. I care because people believe religion will save them when all they had to do was believe in themselves. I'm not sad, just severely disappointed. No one listened. I do know a whole new world will come out of this and I am looking forward to it. This world has needed a shift for a long while. I am thankful I can hear and see things I deal with.
By LilithV7 years ago in Motivation
At a Loss of Words
There have been moments where I was not sure what to say or even write. It was as though nothing came to my mind. In fact, this entire essay is one of those moments. I want to write about something. I do not care what. Yet, the main issue I have is WHAT to write about.
By Halden Mile7 years ago in Motivation
Who will you be in this crisis?
The sweat from uncertainty runs down several soldier's faces as they prepare to meet their fate. Looking around at each other during a chilling early morning on June 6th, they wait as the tanker carries them through the ocean on to the shore. There's an eerie silence challenging their psyche's as panic and anxiety begin to writhe up into their brains.
By Adonis Richards7 years ago in Motivation
What's Your Excuse Not To Write Now
Oh boy! Now you’ve done it! You’ve found yourself working from home, unable to go out to the local Italian restaurant because of whatever new ban is in effect. You’re pissed off because you think your freedoms have been violated (they have, but I digress). And you’re a writer.
By Eric Carasella7 years ago in Motivation
What is it that you desire?
I was in high school, in the eleventh grade and I had no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Truth is at that age I did not give it much thought. I had great friends, I laughed a lot with them. Most of my friends in twelfth grade already knew what they wanted and were attending university studying various degrees from arts to science and there was me. I applied to The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology also known as SAIT. I only did it because my mom suggested I did so, but at seventeen you still have no idea of what you want or where to go with your life. You are still a child at age seventeen. I attended for a year and I found classes boring and the work tedious. I only really enjoyed one class and that was essay writing. In high school I struggled a lot with English, I found comprehension tests hard because I could not explain my thought process of why I thought the answer was c. It was all multiple choice, which is annoying. I either dug too deep with the text or I was too shallow.
By Adrianna M. Braun7 years ago in Motivation
We Had Fun!!
At this moment, Right now, as I write this, we live in a completely shaken up world. A world that is overtaken by fear, that is wretched with panic, and that is drowning in a sea of depression. This world as I write is full those who are severely angry, those who have had the complete 💩💩 scared out of them, and those who are constantly speaking, yet saying absolutely nothing..
By Erik DeSean Barrett7 years ago in Motivation
Rebalancing Yourself and Aligning With What You Want
Over the past few weeks, I’ve come to learn about the importance of balance, in all aspects, mind, body, spirit, emotions and feelings. Throughout life things come up that knock us off balance and that causes us to stop and take a deep look at the situation. I started to become aware of when I was unbalanced and to me it feels like an uneasy, internal feeling that’s similar to anxiety. My body was communicating with me that I need to change something, whether that’s routine or habits or even thoughts and feelings. The Universe will keep putting things on our path and shaking us up until we take a breath and remember who we truly are and what we truly want in life.
By Ellie Browne7 years ago in Motivation
Being Confident in your own Body
Hello everyone and welcome to my first ever story. I wanted to start with a topic that has had an effect on me since I began my teenage years, CONFIDENCE. The first time I began to notice my body changing I was 9 years old. I started to develop quite quickly compare to my friends and I was really scare about that change. When I was just 9 years old I moved to Florida and that's when everything began to change for me, and not for the better. I started 5th grade not knowing any English, my native language is Spanish and it was already difficult enough to do homework because I didn't understand anything. I used to cry while doing my homework because I felt so stupid not knowing anything, at the time I thought that was going to be my only problem. Boy was I wrong. As the days progressed, my self-esteem began to decline, that wasn't even the worst part yet. I began to get bully on my second week of school, I remember it like it was yesterday, It was really traumatizing. Now, the bullying wasn't anything physical, it was emotionally, which I think is worst in my opinion, at least for me it was worst then any physical pain. This continued on till I finally started middle school. In 6th grade I met my best friend who I am so thankful for, we are still best friend till this day and I am 20 years old. During my middle school days everything was good, now fast forward to high school, freshman year. My body was bigger then ever, I have changed completely and not for the better, I gained a lot of weight. I kept seeing this other girls with bodies that were to die for, I wanted nothing more then to be like them. I began to try and eat healthy and exercise but it never worked, it was no use. I got so envy that I began to try and cut my stretchmarks out, yeah you read it right, CUT. Not the smartest idea if. I tried to try out for the track team, couldn't do it, I was too fa and too slow, so I gave up. I felt undesirable by the guys at school, I didn't have many friends, or any friends for that matter. The only friend that I had was my best friend, let's call her Mary. Now, at times I did envy my best friend because her body was amazing as well, I thought, how can a girl like her be friends with me.. Well, let me tell you why. It's because she saw who I was, truly, she saw me for me, not my appearance. It took me so long to figure that out, that if nobody saw me for me, for who I truly was then they were not worth it, they were not real friends. After I finally finished and graduated high school I began to see my self worth, to see who I truly was and who I wanted to be. All of those little incidents that happen to me weren't so little, they affected me so much emotionally, but because of that I finally learnt to love myself. I began to love my body, treat it like the temple it was and the temple it is now.
By Blizzfulliss7 years ago in Motivation
TP The Pandemic
Although this thought has been on my mind for several days, it is the first time I have sat down to write. Writing has a way of forcing the feelings you don’t want seen recorded for everyone to see; it stains the paper with the ink of your confessions. I thought a lot about how I wanted to present this. Would it be better read in a clinical manner, such as a journalist entry with facts and dates? Or rather a poem with literary figures and emotions paving the way for understanding. Maybe a fictional short story would better encompass it all. Whatever the writing style, you can figure it out. All I know is what I think. What I think, in the light of recent events, maybe controversial and therefore unpopular but it is my opinion.
By Sofya Maxnide7 years ago in Motivation
The Happiness Myth
What exactly is happiness? According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, it is “A state of well-being and contentment”. However, this is a vague and shallow description for something that consumes the lives of most people. No matter where you go, what you do, or who you talk to, you will inevitably reach the conclusion that all of humanity is searching for happiness. Some people look for it in a partner, others in their career, and still others unfortunately from addictive substances. After years of social and individual observations, I have come to see an awakening in the pursuit of a self-love movement. I have found that this has become a battle cry for people in vastly different life stages and it doesn’t seem to be dying down.
By Zoe House7 years ago in Motivation
