Once one stops expecting anything to happen, in her life—once she stops expecting anything from anyone, and once she refrains from anticipating anything, or wanting anything in particular to happen…and once she stops wanting negative situations to cease—at that point, she will live her life in a natural state, untainted by vain desires and unnecessary…
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I’m not trying to lose weight, anymore. I am 269 pounds. I no longer am trying to lose weight. I am actively trying to eat healthily, drink enough water, exercise, sleep, and etc. If I lose a bunch of weight through this process, that’s great. If I don’t; I no longer desire to be one-hundred-and-something…
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I’ve had people say to me—and I’ve also sensed them thinking—you know, Ethar, you should smile at all times. You should walk down the street smiling. (I’m a walker—a hiker, in fact. I take an hour or two hours’ walk, on certain days. Most other days, it’s half an hour, or under an hour.) “You…
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A look at the benefits of artistic expression—especially visual art—beyond political commentary, protest art, and art for social change. I feel that the arts have often been studied and considered for the social commentary and political protest that it can embody, or put forth. I feel that the arts have been lauded or approved of…
Read Morec: long prose poem/third-person essay. 🛐🏵💔 actually, this might be just a stream-of-consciousness journal entry that’s written in the third person. (third person, past tense.) i think this can be described as a vignette or a lyric essay, too.
She felt that the difficulties in her life could never have been avoided, really; that it was just something that had happened, that had happened very forcefully and almost authoritatively (violently), and that there was absolutely no stopping of it, at all. This realization gave her a lot of peace of mind and enough resolve…
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I feel that there’s nothing I can’t do. I can go walking outside; I can listen to music on my mp3 player while lying down on my small bed in the corner of my room (I pushed it there so that I can be in the corner, at the intersection of the two walls); I…
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The current discourse on outsiders and outcasts seems to further alienate and derogate them, rather than achieve the goal of defining them in a neutral manner, or showing any empathy to them. In addition, the current discourse seems to define them through potential sociopolitical aspects of their identities–demographic traits like sexual orientation, religious beliefs and…
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You just have to live to the best of your ability. Suicide is not an option. Do what you love to do; that will really help you keep living. Just make it to the finish line, which is natural death. | Dysfunction (living life in a dysfunctional way), suicide, and trying to attain a life…
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I’m still trying to chill out, and recuperate from all of the pointed abuse and torture I got from other people, during the course of my life. If nobody likes me or talks to me in my life, that’s perfectly ok. I don’t like people, either. I’m coming to that conclusion more and more every…
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This is what I’ve been doing lately to deal with pain and difficulty; Feel what you have to feel. Don’t suffer needlessly with it—meaning; don’t inflate it beyond its limits—but definitely feel what you have to feel. That’s the only way it’ll leave. Suppressing it or ignoring it never diminishes it, in the long run.…
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