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The past
Last night I got into work and started my regular routine. As I shoved out a cart of product, someone looked at me really hard and suddenly, without a second thought, greeted me. It was a friend, who I used to ride the bus with, back at McDonogh. This probably marks the third person I've been to school with showing up while I was at work ever, and ( Read more... ) -
Have I ever mentioned my happy place?
Well, I should rephrase, my happy places. Up until I was about 20 years old, I only had one. But the second that grew from a love I could have never imagined helped me realize the multi-planed aspects of my life ( Read more... ) -
Rules of Monster Hunting, Applied to Life
Rule #2:
Preparation is keyThis constitutes a lot of things within and outside the hunt. Knowing what you're about to do is obviously important, but from the bare basics to the hardest adversary this should always follow rule number one. In the beginning, you aren't really given many tools. You might have one of every weapon type (except the new ( Read more... ) -
Here's to hopefully the first of many: Rules of Monster Hunting, and how to apply to your life
I've been boiling and bumbling this idea for a few years now, and never had a cohesive means of bringing it together until now. I'm motivated, inspired, and pushed by many other factors to start writing and writing often. I'll only get better if I continue. And I want people to criticize and critique how I approach these ideas. But my basis will ( Read more... ) -
-A hazy fragment brought to you by the power of music-
-A hazy fragment brought to you by the power of music ( Read more... ) -
The trod
The child looked out at his road ahead, a seemingly endless foray of brownish-red dusty swirls and seemingly standstill sunsets. He knew this trail ahead wasn't the best choice. Pale white bricks lightly strewn about a beaten, forgotten path that few wanted to travel. His dreams led him here, somehow, and he knew before too long he was terribly ( Read more... ) -
Six hundred eleven. What a tall number.
I've come here today, looking back at the days and years before. I sometimes come back to livejournal just to review what's happened to me in recent time. Other times, to see what my friends have still decided is worth posting. But today, being the first post of 2013, I feel the need to address the things I've have to do. The goals I have, the ( Read more... ) -
A friendly reminder..
Funny how words from a short story stand pretty true to some concerns I've had, both past and present ( Read more... ) -
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You know the scariest thing about obsessions? The obsessed can never truly admit because every fragment of their brain rationalizes it until they realize the err of their ways ( Read more... ) -
The points of attraction: Looking from a Male perspective
As a guy, I've recently wondered what it means to be "attractive". Since the term is so broad, I decided to split the concept up in my mind to what made sense. You have yourself 3 over-arching principles to work with here: Innate attraction, material attraction, and learned attraction. I'll delve into these the best I can, and may have to split ( Read more... )