Lately, I’ve been thinking about how all my previous mistakes have been the same old mistakes I’m used to making. As soon as I start thinking that I’m making progress, I find myself in the same hole. Maybe I am making progress. Perhaps I’m just really hard on myself. I’ve done a lot better; I… Read more

Winning the Breakup My little brother recently broke up with his girl, and since he’s still reasonably young at 18, he’s trying hard to win this thing. Do you know how you have to convince yourself that you’re a lot better off without your partner? Yup, that’s what he’s trying to do. I see it,… Read more

I wasn’t always like this. I didn’t imagine being so attached to my family. When I was 17, what I wanted the most was to get out of the house. It was to get a taste of my independence. Then 2010 happened. I was 18. We lost the house. My dad got a job in… Read more

I often wonder where I would be if I did not make the wrong decisions in my life. There have been so many times in which I’ve prayed for something and received it, just to see that it wasn’t the right thing for me. I’ve worked so hard to get somewhere, only to realize that… Read more

At what age did you realize that your parents were still growing up? I don’t think I came to that conclusion until I was older. I never thought of my parents as anything outside of parental figures. In my head, they still had it all figured out, and the issues that they went through were… Read more

Sometimes I like waking up on the wrong side of the bed. There are mornings in which I wake up, and it’s harder to wake up than other days. I feel a little bit defeated since the jump. I feel like it’s just going to be a more difficult day, or something I’ve been avoiding… Read more