You only think it does. But it's always there underneath, festering in your soul. You feel like as soon as you can get the next thing done you'll feel better, and the only reason you're unhappy is because you're so far behind, and it's only temporary, but that just as soon as you get the next thing done ( Read more... )

There's just that feeling that he's too-something and I'm too-something-else. It's not that he's too good-looking for me, and it's not that I'm too smart for him. It's not that I'm too shy to clue him in, and it's not that he's too confident that we're just friends to notice. These are all factors, yes, but there's something deeper going on that ( Read more... )

I've never understood the reasoning behind the Catholic cannon law requiring priests and nuns to take a vow of celibacy upon entering into Holy Orders. What could God possibly have against priests and nuns marrying into and spreading their holy genes throughout the common populace ( Read more... )

-Pictures from freshman year ( Read more... )

Two kids sitting in the back of a red pickup truck in the penetrating chill of a late autumn midnight, talking to each other about nothing and everything under a faintly buzzing halogen bulb in the parking lot behind Krispy Kreme. She’s wearing a pair of classy black heels and his large black overcoat, a strand of pearls around her neck and 1940’s ( Read more... )

My friend gave me one of his Adderol for free.

I put it in my jeans' pocket for safekeeping.

I washed my jeans this morning.

I forgot to remove the Adderol.

I now have no Adderol.

The other day while on my way home from school, I was momentarily halted by a traffic signal. As I sat in my automobile, patiently awaiting the light's eventual transition from red to green, I gazed out the window, marking the lazily stirring breeze; the smiling rays of sunshine; and the cotton-puff clouds floating high above the trees, slowly ( Read more... )

OneAt any given time when using a public restroom, one doesn't usually think of the hundreds, or possibly thousands, of individuals who have pioneered that toilet before them. It could be a total stranger, or it could be your best friend, but the inconclusive quality of that knowledge gives one the excuse to suppress this undesirable channel of ( Read more... )

      Marriage is not love.People who believe that marriage is only love is why the divorce rate is so high. Marriage as an institution must be viewed as a binding commitment between two people to love, care for, support, and respect one another until the day that one of them dies. It is a lifetime contract that must be upheld, not a simple "I ( Read more... )

I've been to three countries: USA, Mexico, and Canada. The states I've been to are in red.


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