My Uncle’s favorite quote is “People don’t change”. When I was a kid at family parties I remember him saying this as a response to hearing about what someone in our family experienced or just talking about current events. I would hear one of my cousins saying how her boyfriend was treating her like shit [...]
“Success” in America has less to do with actual talent than any time in recent history. We have forsaken competence, responsibility and intelligence in our country and replaced those attributes with shallow illusions of each. It has been all around me lately in my workplace, in popular entertainment, and watching the government in action. [...]
As a person gets older a perception that has been generating over the course of a lifetime takes hold and things become far less dynamic over time. As a child a person is constantly in flux and their perception changes at a rapid pace. Events and experiences major and minor can completely change someone’s view [...]
Dreams are so fascinating to me because everything is so random and logic does not apply the way I use it in every other part of my life. Dreams are jumbled and fleeting yet they can compel me to do things or infuse me with real emotion. ”I had the most fucked up dream last night…” usually precedes a convoluted [...]
“Everything happens for a reason.” I hear it all the time whenever someone talks about things that have happened to them in the past. Why do so many people believe that to be true? The idea that events are culminating into some grand plan which will eventually put the individual in some sort of more [...]
This idea is something that I have been thinking about for a while and it has to do with the overall perception of well being that any person feels in any situation. Pretty broad, I know, but the thought process behind it is so simplistic yet is completely opposite from how people perceive the current [...]