How to Crush Without Being Crushed
The Art of Relationships, Real and Imagined
Once you have a starting point, two practices will have to be cultivated in order to take active control of your personal growth. These attitudes have their roots in classical spiritual practices like Buddhism, but have long been used in more secular arenas for good reason: they work. One, Mindfulness, keeps you tuned in to [...]
No matter how well we think we know ourselves, there’s always more to learn. We are, after all, constantly growing and changing due to the experiences and thoughts we have. In this blog, I advocate using your crushes to learn about yourself. Before you can effectively do that, you need a solid starting point. You [...]
Despite my best efforts, I never was able to fully overcome all those little anxieties that had settled into place over the yeas before high school. They were always at their worst, though, when I was surrounded by the same people who had been around when they first formed. The odd thing was, anytime I [...]
With my nearly three year long destructive crush fading behind me, I discovered I had a whole lot more energy to dedicate toward thinking about relationships with other people. High school, with the plethora of pop culture mythology I had firmly loaded in my head by the time I started, struck me as the perfect [...]
As muddled as my mind was for most of high school, some things began to become clear during those years. First and foremost, the idea that, among my peers, I was actually a worthwhile person began to creep in. That was mostly due to finally shedding the destructive crush of years prior and finding the [...]
I tend to make a big deal out of my time in high school. How I make a big deal out of it has slid into different territory over the years. As I’ve gotten further away from it, the distance has allowed me to appreciate it more. Continued “personal archaeological expeditions” into that long-ago past [...]
Once upon a time, I was an incurable flirt. It was after high school, not too terribly far into my college career. I’d finally gotten comfortable enough with myself that I could be comfortable with others. I also discovered that, hey, I’m not an unlikable troll–some women respond positively to interaction with me! (Yeah, back [...]
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