Think back to a time that was enjoyable (at least a bit). A time that you miss. Do you miss the actual thing, or the time in your life, or the person? Or do you miss the way you felt about it, or them? It might be that you are nostalgic about the emotion you felt (which, more often than…
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One of the most common regrets of those in the final stages of their life is: ‘I wish I’d lived the life I’d wanted.’ That is, a life based on how you want to live it. Not how society, your family, your friends, your ‘friends’, or anyone else expects you should. In this scene from The Last Kiss, Izzy tries to…
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In the Onion Encyclopaedia, or The Book of Known Knowledge, a relationship is defined as: Social bond lasting anywhere from 2 weeks to 70 years, the entirety of which is spent vacillating between thinking one is doing the right thing and thinking that one is making a horrible mistake. Whether you believe in gender stereotypes or not, you may believe…
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When you’re a kid, your vocabulary is limited to what you have learned so far. But with each significant period (1 year, 2 years, 5 years) you expand on that vocab, and upon your experience exponentially. But you’re perception of what upsets you, hurts you, scares you is restricted by how you process it in words. So though you may…
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The most important test of how strong, humble and resolute you are comes when you need to respond to a trial in life. It’s how you respond to a test of your strength during and then after a difficult time has begun. Sure, it’d be great to handle every test in life perfectly, but that’s not bloody likely. So when…
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We often take shortcuts (which sometimes are necessary), and let our imagination run wild. But if you find yourself bothered about something someone did and them making an assumption about why you think they did it… Stop. And ask yourself: What evidence do I have of this actually being true? 2. Is it possible that I am wrong? That what I…
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Say you have to choose between living the life you want, and compromising the things that you value most, just to alleviate your fear of regretting things in the future, or fearing that you’ll make the wrong decision… So, this is scenario 1: If you first thing deeply about understanding yourself, then you’re honest with yourself, and respectful of those who…
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What’s your answer? What I am and what you are and what every physical thing on this planet is, is a living organism. One that has consciousness. Either with a level of consciousness that perhaps only we understand, or a consciousness that is different than that of every other species, and a consciousness that precludes us from understanding other species’…
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That’s it. Ask yourself: ‘Who am I?’ Ever done it? Think about it.
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There is no such thing as “Can’t” (other than ‘I can’t live without water/oxygen etc.’, and those laws of physics which are limiting, e.g. I can’t fly to South East Asia from Australia just by flapping my arms’)*. But for everything else, there’s no can’t, only ‘Don’t’. If you find yourself thinking you can’t do something, it’s possible to ask…