Category Archives: lessons learned
Learn to Be Alone
Before you can have a truly deep and meaningful relationship with others, you have to cultivate one with yourself. A big part of that is learning to be alone, comfortably–to enjoy your own company and not rely on the constant … Continue reading
Never the Same Twice
For those who have loved and lost, as oh so many have, there’s often talk of “trying to find that feeling again” or being worried that “there won’t be anyone like him again”. Talk like that is, realistically speaking, useless. … Continue reading
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Tagged emotions, lessons learned, love, mindfulness, relationships
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Calming the Mind and Heart
It should be relatively obvious to anyone that our mental state can thoroughly effect our external appearance and actions. When you’re tired, you’re not quite as quick to react. When you’re angry, your blood pressure rises. When you’re in a … Continue reading
The Hidden Past as a Future Threat
Those last two posts were written five years ago and dealt with my own sudden realization of just how badly my mind had rewritten a piece of my own history. A lot has changed in the five years since then. … Continue reading
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Tagged honesty, memory, perception, reality, self exploration, self-delusion
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Owning Up to My Past
[The story connected with this came up a couple of times in conversation recently. Going to link to it, I realized I'd never ported it over to this site. It was originally written December 15, 2005 in another journal of … Continue reading
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Tagged dating, high school, honesty, journaling, memory, negative spiral, phobias, reality
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