February 2012
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The Mask
Smiling in thunder, your astounding facade You breathe then go under, you trip and you blunder You paint your smile, your face is a mask You hide what you are til i’m there then you crash And you dance in your spotlight absorbing the stares and they numb you and dumb you to insidious glares And all the while you want me to be there, to take it, remake it, and fake that you’re fair. Who knew pearly...
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Depression
I never thought I’d live to see my 25th birthday. And not because I had some terrible incurable disease, or because I lived in a rough part of town, or because I was paranoid about the number 25. No, I was convinced I wouldn’t live to see 25 because I was sure that i’d’ve taken my own life by then.
Luckily, my 25th birthday has come and gone, and so has the...
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That moment when...
…you take off all your makeup, look at yourself in the mirror, and think “I’m beautiful”.
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Self-Respect
People will reflect upon you your own outward expression of self. That is to say, if you exude a negative attitude, people will treat you with a negative bias. If you speak in abbreviations and use “like” as often as the Bible uses the word “shalt”…you will be treated as though you can barely comprehend what you YOURSELF are saying. You will be treated...
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Double standards:
A man can say “If you want to be treated like a princess, then don’t act like a whore”. But that same man can have a list of former partners longer than a starving man’s grocery list.
This is not to say that the man’s behavior is not also…”bad”, or socially unacceptable. Or that it validates the woman’s. But it certainly...
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Love....
…does not subscribe to our conventional parameters of ‘supply’. When you give all that you have, you are not left with nothing; you are left with more than you had to begin with.
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Starbucks has a "blonde" roast now...
…so GUESS who’s going to go buy a “tall extra-hot blonde” tomorrow?
Bahaha…
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Boy I love guys who think they know everything.
NOT.
You’re an asshole. And your self-righteous ranting does not make you look like a Big Man. It makes you look like a tool.
Being unnecessarily critical and opinionated doesn’t make you look smart or intellectually elite. It makes you a jerk.
And we all know that deep deeeeep down…you act this way because you feel invalidated in some way.
But you could never admit to that....
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Anyone else feel dirty...?
…when you’re hit on by someone who you thought was a platonic friend?
I don’t know if “dirty” is the right word for it. Awkward? Uncomfortable? No, those aren’t right either. I think “dirty” is really the closest word to how I feel.
It’s like…boundaries have been crossed, and now I know we’ll never have the friendship we had. And...
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That moment when you realize that you're living...
It’s sobering. And upsetting. And quite simply….unacceptable.
I work in a corporate setting. I play by the rules. I adhere to every subsection of every Human Resource policy. I wear a name tag. I have a business card. I have “work attire”. I have my normal voice and my “gee wiz I’d love to assist you sir” voice. I have folders. I have binders to hold...
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January 2012
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