Category: opinion

Time is both the breakneck speed at which things are changing, and the burden of how much is staying the same

Keywords: abundance mindset , Coronavirus , healthy living , Time management

The architecture of how we live our lives has been badly in need of renovation and repair for a while now. Because what we really value has been out of sync with how we live our lives.

https://thriveglobal.com/stories/arianna-huffington-pandemic-opportunity-healthy-working-living-reset

You don’t want to put yourself over others, but you have to

Keywords: thoughts day in the life , connection , friendship , hurts like hell , journal , life , love , mental heath

When you have a fear to lose people, they will walk out from you trying to control that situation and trying to keep them. You slowly learn after each relationship and friendship, people leave and it will hurt. And each time, I get a little less cold. Still angry, but slowly keeping myself open to everything.

https://livinginjeneral.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/connections-after-disconnection

If you can’t find a right winger, you may be able to pretentiously talk to other lefties in a corner about books that you read once but don’t really understand

Keywords: People, politics, Organizing, Volunteering

Anyone who has gone to college knows that the only way to connect with a nonprofit is by a special summoning ceremony involving unicorn’s blood and a wishbone. The first step is to hold your horses and honestly think about what you’re doing. The second step is to contact whichever person was so dismissive about your idea of help that it made you want to stop talking to people altogether. That person actually, is the only person in your community who will know how to enact the ceremony. Email that person about your concerns and your desire to help, and then hold your breath until they get back to you.

https://aprylarchy.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/inaction-seems-legit

From my experience, some people act all high and mighty because at one point in their lives, they felt so inferior and unimportant

Keywords: Life and Personal Growth Essentials, life, personal blog, personal, personal development, mental health, health, self-care, healing, self-help

That was my case. Prior to my college adventure, I was a second-banana when I was in high school.

https://themindfulmodus.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/how-do-you-handle-a-snob

I was experiencing my own anxiety as I was trying to help others cope with their anxiety

Keywords: vulnerability #covid19 #lifecoach #, authenticity, mental health, self-awareness, self-compassion

Thankfully the other 3 webinars didn’t experience any more technical difficulties, so I’m grateful for that and now I’ve got another new skill. Regardless, there was vulnerability in that experience. There is vulnerability in hosting a webinar and hoping that people show up, and that if they do, they feel connected to what you have to say. We are all trying to adapt our personal & professional  lives to deal with the massive change in front of us, and there is a roller coaster of emotion that can come along with that. My vulnerability in the midst of this is something that can connect us, just as well as (if not better than) just talking about things I’m happy about or thankful for.

https://nicolecliftonblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/positivity-wont-protect-us-from-vulnerability

To Fuck With or Not to Fuck With

Obviously, no one should want to fuck with the Corona virus.

But how about with people — in particular: people who behave poorly (aka assholes)?

When people behave poorly, then that has little or nothing to do with me… so why would I want to fuck with people like that? Do I have time for that? Hell, no! Especially if those people aren’t even interested in anyone else, how their behavior might impact other people, or anything like that.

I think when people treat you poorly, it is easy to be misled into thinking that might have something to do with you — but it doesn’t. If I behave poorly, then that is no reason to treat me poorly. On the contrary: in that situation, I guess I would need help.

So when people treat you or me poorly, let’s do the right thing: just walk away.

Even persons I looked up to completely lost their shit

Keywords: Bondi Beach, Corona Virus, COVID-19, Embrace Quietness, False News, Fiji, Fiji Islands, Lockdown, Pandemic, Self Isolation, Social Media, World Health Organisation

World leaders who I thought would come through in times of crisis lost all sense of direction. And no I’m not writing this from a place of all calm and zen; it just hasn’t hit me yet.

https://shyamni.com/2020/03/30/practice-quietness-in-other-words-stfu