Tweet Future me, Above all, I hope you have learned to be kind to yourself. If you do not do that thing you think you have to do, if your life doesn’t turn out exactly as you’ve planned – it is okay; everything is always going to be okay. I hope you are writing everyday,
I Am Worthy
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Can’t Define My Brand…Yet
Tweet I am the girl that everyone knows as really loud. I tried to think of an adjective that people would universally agree on - as we are all different versions of ourselves with the various people in our lives – and I think loud is the only thing I consistently always am. I would
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Never a Convenient Time for Heartbreak
Tweet I’ve often thought that I would be great at writing love songs, and I would do so if I could sing. Songwriting provides anonymity for the writers and the people they write about. There is just the right amount of vague for you to wonder who it is they’re writing about – what exactly
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Illuminating the Truth
Tweet This topic is surprisingly difficult for me. I am overflowing with quotes – I read constantly, and I try my hardest to memorize what I love, so I have no shortage of quotes. But what is inspiring me right at this moment? I’m not sure. I am reading (very, very slowly) the Unbearable Lightness
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The Importance of Acceptance
Tweet I consider myself to be a deeply spiritual person, and my most important value is the belief that the God that exists in me exists in everyone else too. I grew up Christian, and though I no longer identify with that religion, it definitely influences some of my other beliefs now. My spirituality is
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Record of My Existence
Tweet This isn’t my first experience blogging, as I’ve been writing my own blog Awash With Wonder for the past five months. Blogging, in general, has taught me A LOT about myself though! Growing up, I got the message that being extroverted was positive: to be loud, outgoing and confident were all very good things.
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No Fear
Tweet I started working as an intern at a magazine last week, and I love everything about it. The publishing company for which my magazine is a part of is huge, with offices throughout America and even one in the Mecca for all aspiring writers – New York. I love swiping my keycard to gain
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Wanderlust
Tweet I think one of those defining characteristic of my childhood was how much I moved. My parents were consumed by wanderlust – or maybe the belief that happiness was anywhere else but where we were – and we moved on average every two- three years. I spent the first eight years of my life
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In Limbo
Tweet If I was not afraid I would leave. I would sell everything that can be sold, including my little egg of a car (which is, most of the time, a bad egg), and discard everything else that couldn’t fit in two suitcases. I would buy a plane ticket to Nepal. I would stay in
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Conversations with Winnie the Pooh
Tweet “How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” – Pooh” I’m just going to begin by saying that I think Winnie the Pooh is the greatest. I used to be an avid scrapbooker and you better believe that those carefully constructed pages were littered with pearls of wisdom from
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