Ego Depletion

Saturday morning I woke up with a mother of a hangover. I didn’t even drink that much but clearly this ‘age thing’ is no myth. I rolled over to my fiancé. “Ugh I shouldn’t have smoked that cigarette. I feel sick. Why did you let me do that?” “Because you would have just told me, […]

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Women Perfectly Describe The Pain of Heartbreak

I won’t glorify or romanticize heartbreak. For me, it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living. -Warsan Shire I remember the first time my heart was broken. I remember sitting on the cracked linoleum floor of the kitchen in our rented university house, thinking the pain would never end. I […]

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A High School Teacher’s List of 100 Wisest Words

I don’t know where I stumbled across this but somewhere in my arsenal of Google docs and Microsoft Word drafts I found it copy and pasted. I’ve tried to find out more about who said it, where it came from, how it came about, but unfortunately, it’s just one of those ‘in the void’ type […]

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