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Luv You. Bah!

I was brought up to believe that showing vulnerability was a sign of weakness. Now I understand that it takes great strength to be who we are: to speak our desires, needs, passions. To say that you love someone, when you’re not so sure that they love you back. I don’t like the new standard goodbye in America, “Luv you.” Those words are sacred, and I don’t believe they should be said unless we mean it. And meaning it means that we back them up with deed. How many acquaintances do that? There’s another problem. And like usual, I’m making […]

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I was brought up to believe that showing vulnerability was a sign of weaknes

I was brought up to believe that showing vulnerability was a sign of weakness. Now I understand that it takes great strength to be who we are: to speak our desires, needs, passions. To say that you love someone, when you’re not so sure they love you back. I don’t like the new standard goodbye in America, “Luv you.” Those words are sacred, and I don’t believe they should be said unless we mean it. And meaning it means that we back them up with deed. How many acquaintances do that? There’s another problem. And like usual, I’m making myself […]

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Old Friends Are Easy

I like being with people who know me. My parents ripped me away from my Ceil Place friends when I was in 9th grade. And while this homebody has been all around the world, I have never found a group of friends who I enjoy being with more. Now that I’m living on the East Coast again, even though we don’t know each other well as adults, it doesn’t matter. It seems that childhood friends know your essence; there’s no need to catch them up to who you are today. To me, there’s something really comforting in that. Wishing you […]

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