a challenge to find our perfect existence
I find it unfortunate that you don't get a blank slate when you become an adult. Well, while your legal records might get a soft reset once you turn 18, everything that you've lived through up to this point -- the poor habits, traumatic experiences and negative emotions -- continue to bog you down later in …
Continue reading "Designing a Life"
Several years ago, a friend of mine crossed paths with a man who was paralyzed from the neck down, the result of an attempted suicide from a highway overpass. In their brief conversation, the man told his story about how and why he decided to end his life following an unfortunate breakup, one that had …
Continue reading "Relativity of Pain"
This is one of many letters I'm going to write to my high school self. This is a letter I wish I had gotten in the mail as I started my summer leading up to college. This is a letter I'm writing in hopes of helping someone else transition from being tucked under the protective …
Continue reading "Dear (Younger) Lawrence,"
Nothing in today's world beats the feeling of opening your mailbox and seeing it filled with colorful envelopes, addressed anywhere from California to Riga, the capital of Latvia. You can learn the experiences of people from all over the globe. All it takes is 49 cents to mail a letter to anywhere in the United States, …
Continue reading "Dear Elijah,"
There's nothing like standing in the doorway to your tiny dorm room and thinking, "what/who could I possibly throw away/cut off/get to know better?" 70 times over the course of what was the second week undertaking my personal version of The Minimalists' game. My room is tidy now, cleaner than it's ever been. Like The Minimalists said themselves, you …
Continue reading "The Second Week"
