I Like Your Flaws
I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them. I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you.
9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down
Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life. It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it.
Design Seeds®: For All Who Love Color
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A Checklist For Summertime
1. “Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis or reliable then my own meandering experience.
6 Teorías Mind Bending que cambiarán su forma de pensar - Top 6 Listas
This is universe is vast, too surreal to understand in a flick of an eye. Many philosophers have walked this earth and have put something substantial for us to read, to ponder upon. How things work, how this universe works and all the surrealistic phenomena that we found mind-bending, is enough bread and butter to change the way we think.
It Happened to Me: I Had An Emotional Affair
Adventures in shady texting. Recently, someone asked me if I have ever cheated on anyone, and I felt a familiar storm of guilt begin to brew in the pit of my stomach. “Once,” I said. “Not physically.” Not physically? What does that mean?
The Purpose of Life, Revealed
Last week I ran into a few online discussions about those big, big questions that often come up in late-night conversations: Why are we here? What is our purpose? Strictly speaking, as members of the human species we do have a purpose. But we didn’t choose it, and it might not be us who stands to benefit from it. In fact, you might find our purpose quite upsetting. Maybe you don’t want to know.
Sketchbook Secrets: 50 Beautiful Sketchbook Scans
The sketchbook is—to borrow a term from the new millenniums’ popular discourse—an artist’s BFF. It’s a diary for the visually inclined—a place where artists can most comfortably explore their personal thoughts, work out their visual needs, practice, maintain a visual history, and hopefully create the unpolished work that will eventually lead to amazing work for the world to see. But, sometimes, when we’re lucky, we get to see the process.
On (Literally) Cleaning Out My Closet
My parents’ house has always been a repository for things, a sort of free storage space. My brother and I would leave our stuff there during our “in between” stages of life; when we were in college, or traveling, or out of college and living in apartments too small to actually fit things in. Clothes we haven’t worn for years but might later, old furniture, physics notes from high school that could come in handy someday, art prints our exes left us, Polaroids.
Does She Love You?
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Need Some Motivation Right Now? Read This IMMEDIATELY
If you’re in desperate need of some motivation, we’re going to fix that problem, right here, right now. Prepare yourself. WARNING: I’m going to swear and yell a little in this post. Desperate times call for desperate measures. You said you needed motivation.
Relationship Rules
Human beings crave intimacy, need to love and be loved. Yet people have much trouble doing so. It's clear from the many letters I get that lots of folks have no idea what a healthy relationship even looks like. Because I care about these things, and care about the environments children grow in, I'm using this space as an attempt to remedy the problem—again. From many sources and many experts, I have culled some basic rules of relationships. This is by no means an exhaustive list.
How To Get Over Yourself In 7 Easy Steps
1. Realize that your problems are everyone’s problems. It’s easy to work yourself into an insane kind of paranoia/depression about the current state of affairs. You have a lot of debt, jobs are really hard to find, you’re not getting paid enough, you might have to move in with your parents, you feel lied to by every authority figure to ever come into your life from the age of five. Guess what, though? So does everyone else.
On Long Distance Relationships And Temporary Insanity
If Venus had a telephone, I would leave cranky messages. If Aphrodite had email I would flame her. And if Cupid, god damn him, had a mailbox, I would stuff postcards with letter bombs attached in it. All of them would say the same thing: What is this? What have you done to me? I did not ask for this.
