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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“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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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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I sit, as one, divided. Divided in today's nearly black-and-white world where the society around me forces me to pick sides. On racial issues. In political debates. On everything. And when I can't quite make up my mind, I end up staying silent: a mute watching from the sidelines. When I keep my mouth shut, …
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