Fear and Anger
Lately, I’ve felt this gut ripping anger. It starts building slowly and eventually piles up. I feel it boiling through my heart and mind. It is toxic and poisonous, all anger is. I can feel it creep up and whisper violent thoughts into my ears. It flushes across my face and makes me want to […]
Deam Big, or Go Home
It’s all about Goals A lot of things in my life leave me apathetic and complacent. I’m a creature of stagnation, and that’s not a healthy way to look at the world. I like being comfortable, and as long as I can maintain the status quo, I’m quite alright. I get asked quite often what […]
Conversations across Time #Trust30
Five Years by Corbett Barr There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson What would you say to the person you were five years ago? What will you say to the person you’ll be in five years? (Author: Corbett […]
Mentally Disorganized
I have a compulsion to be disorganized. It isn’t that I can’t get organized, that’s all actually pretty easy to me. The problem is, I can’t stay organized. I suffer from a pretty severe case of chronic scatterbrain. In fact, it plagues me even as I write this. Between “chronic scatterbrain” and “In fact,” I […]
Too Young to Be the Grumpy Old Man
It’s the dark day when you realize that at the venerable old age of 27, you have become the grumpy, bitter, old man in your group of friends. Of course certain friends of mine that seek to actively remind me that I “hate things that are fun,” usually while I’m lecturing him on the wisdom […]
We only gain meaning from those that pass it to us.
I am No One. I have meaning only from those that pass meaning to me. I’m not anybody special. In fact, I’m about as far from important as you can get. I hide that well, most of the time. I definitely show more ego than someone with as little significance as myself actually deserves. I […]
15 Life Lessons I’ve Learned from LARPing (Part 3)
11) People Focus on the Good, but Never Forget a Slight I believe people genuinely want to see the good in others, but humanity is full of the pettiest grudge-holding bitches ever. We spend a lot of time discussing the virtues of honor and trying our best to live by them. We know what […]