a challenge to find our perfect existence
A couple of months ago, I deleted my Snapchat account. In the following weeks, I was barraged with questions about why I did it. It seems that, in today’s social media dominated environment, deleting Snapchat was the equivalent to social suicide. Since 2011, when the app was first released, Snapchat has quickly risen through the …
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We're the best liars to ourselves: we can convince ourselves that everything will be okay and, maybe at the same time, that we're stuck on a one-way road to a dead-end. Earlier this year, on August 19th, I sat on a barstool in my apartment with a towel wrapped around my waist and another draped …
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein At the end of the day, I’m not good at school. To be honest, I was never good at school. As much as I …
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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 …
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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, …
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