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Continue reading →: Do it for the OneThere will undoubtedly be days when content creators think, “Maybe it doesn’t matter.” Great effort can be extended every day. Much time is spent trying to help others, even if only a little. Persuasion is often used to convince people of a simple truth. Every individual has immense value, regardless…
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Continue reading →: Embracing Delays: Finding Positivity at the Airport
After walking off a tram headed toward the airport security line, it was astonishing to see a typically crowded vendor had no one waiting in line. Might as well stop. But I was so disappointed with the vendor at the airport after walking away. They forgot to smash my blueberry…
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Continue reading →: Consumerism: The Hidden Price We Pay for Products
When are we going to wake up and realize the products that we buy regularly are not actually the products; we are. The manufacturers here and abroad have managed to seduce consumers into buying just about anything. They certainly entice us with enough of the right advertising. People crave products…
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Continue reading →: Transform Complaints into Productive Actions
The blame game is very popular, although there never seems to be a winner. Why we all play so much is a mystery. Although most people would agree, complaining yields no results. We do it because it feels so good. Like a balloon letting out all its air, similarly, a…
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Continue reading →: The Truth Behind Our Painted Lives
Time to read: Who am I? It’s a question many have asked themselves. Everywhere we look, images are being painted. The artist, however, is not a sole painter but rather a society. It paints for us images of what it means to be beautiful, successful, and happy. Are those images…
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Continue reading →: A Personal Note To My Readers
As you are probably all aware, I have taken an unofficial leave of absence from my blog that started back in 2018. It has been more than two years now since consistently posting. The last post I saw on the website was June 14, 2022. The blog started with a…
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Continue reading →: Carrying Life’s BaggagePeople tend to make a big deal out of decisions. Is it the decisions themselves that are difficult, or rather consequences of those decisions that are hard to live with? Decisions are like the baggage of life that we carry around, while consequences are the contents inside those bags. We…
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Continue reading →: The Curse of Won’tI cannot imagine that anyone wants to be a flop in life. Instead, most of us would like to achieve some level of success. Maybe not climbing the highest peaks, but it is definitely not falling into the lowest depths. Yet the moment we set out to do something big…
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Continue reading →: Failure to CommunicateWhen we fight, we fail to communicate. We think we are right, so we argue our point to the other person. We genuinely think we know what is true, but we do not always know, especially when it comes to literally everything. However, God knows all. Maybe it is time…
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Continue reading →: What’s Pulling at you?When I was growing up, there was a game we used to have so much fun playing called tug of war, where two teams pulled on the same rope but in opposite directions. To make it challenging, we tried to even up each side with similar capabilities. That is when…
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Continue reading →: Capture the MemoryBefore smart phones, hardly anyone lugged around a camera. The only ones who seemingly did were the tourist type who stood out to the locals like a sore thumb. Since phones with cameras became popular, everywhere you look is a person taking pictures or recording videos now. Some capture and…
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Continue reading →: Free WillThe power to do something different at any given time; free will. Humankind is the only creature that can wake up without a plan. Chances are you have met someone who has lived this philosophy like it was actually a good strategy. Everything else around us has a plan. Birds…
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Continue reading →: Living by StringsDo you like to pull on others’ strings? When you try to control the decisions of other adults it creates a huge source of stress, not only in their lives but yours too. People are naturally selective and prefer their decisions over yours. Can you believe that? I know, absurd,…
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Continue reading →: Win or Lose, TogetherWin or lose, the whole team experiences it together. When a team wins, each player might think about how much effort they individually put into it. Their ego wants to cry out, “I did it!” But in reality, they never did it alone. Absolutely there are gifted people out there.…
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Continue reading →: Provoked to AwakenOur enemies provoke us. Something in them calls out to something in us. We may not even realize it, but at the moment of trial, something inside awakens. There is only so much we tolerate. At first it is just uncomfortable but quickly moves to fearful. We want to flee…
