“Putting someone’s needs above your own desires.” “Forgiving someone without consequences.” “Letting someone have that LAST piece of cake.” These are all common beliefs of what love has embodied. To each person love entails a different story, but let’s face it: We all start the story with once upon a time and finish with and […]
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Every girl, no matter her race, size, or education, wants to be loved. It’s just the way it is. Like how all of us are made out of stars and meteors, or the unchangeable fact that the Earth rotates itself once a day — it’s a fact. None of the constellations are going to disintegrate […]
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One of the hardest things to go through is not being in love with someone you should completely love. It’s so hard because it’s not something that happens in an instant. You don’t wake up one morning and feel nothing. You go day by day thinking the feeling will come back and stay. But it […]
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As you come into your twenties, you make the transition from being a teenager to a young adult, and it comes with pressures and changes that you never expect. Sometimes it’s a little overwhelming…but I believe that in the end, you just gotta take life as it comes — despite society’s expectations. So to help, […]
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Appreciation got to me in so many ways. So many different times in my life, some fake ones, some heartfelt ones, some forced ones. When recently, someone praised me, I got thinking about its aftereffect. And I realized, so simply, appreciation is the happy key to life. We live to be appreciated, to prove that […]
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The following was written for Germ’s May Writing Challenge. While I sit here the only thing I can think of is how much it is hard to find time for yourself. I’m currently in the midst of the exam storm and it is really hard to keep everything together , but you have to, or […]
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For some of us, being social seems like a lot of effort, especially with outside priorities like school, work, sports, or health. As BeWell@Stanford sums it up, “Our culture values hard work, success, and wealth, so it’s no surprise some of us do not set aside enough time for social ties when we think security […]
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If you think happy endings exist only in fairy tales, you are wrong. We non-fictitious people can have happy endings, too. and we don’t need magic to get them! Each one of us has real-life powers that need to be utilized, so they can lead us to the happy ending we so desire. Take a leap of […]
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While I am not totally in the loop when it comes to the Aaron Hernandez case, I do know that he was on trial and convicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd. As the jury made their decision and announced that Hernandez was guilty on all counts, I am sure that many people expected Lloyd’s […]
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