When we are little, we want to be grown. When we are grown, we realize the realities of being grown come with a lot of responsibility and it becomes not quite as fun. As I’ve gone through adulthood, I have decided to become more playful and fun, and it’s just because I can. Adulting doesn’t have to be a grind, …
When we are born, like the second we are born, everything is neutral. There are no expectations to be the best little boy or best little girl, the brightest student, the best athlete. Oh, how quickly those things change, though. We are quickly bombarded with the issues and opinions from the adults who surround and raise us. They tell us …
I’ve been single and I’ve been coupled throughout my entire life. Now, after two divorces under my belt, I’m not in a rush to get into any type of situationship, coupleship, or marriage. I’m not interesting in dating. I’ll never say never to anything, but for now, I’m happy to be single and not super ready to mingle. My earlier …
We’ve mostly all been there. A negative environment or situation that we wonder how we let ourselves get into. One day we wake up feeling depressed, down, fraught, or any other feeling word that you can think of. The reality is that we cannot control anything outside of ourselves, but we absolutely can control our actions, our mindset, our next …
Friends have always been part of my life. Much of my youth I had them because of proximity and nothing more. The kids that lived across town from me were a treat to spend time with outside of school because our parents rarely wanted to bother toting us from one house to the other. It was easier for them to …
As I publish this post, it’s my 45th birthday. I’m not sure why it’s such a momentous one for me, but I suppose it’s because it feels like it could be smack in the middle of my life, at least I can hope it is, if not even less. My life has been nothing short of spectacular, particularly in my …
Traditional school was never my “thing.” Learning, however, was always something I was interested in. As most people, I enjoy learning about things that interest me. While I succeeded at my primary years doing relatively well in traditional school, large college classrooms were another story. “Disaster” would be a nice way of describing my 18-21 year old self. When I …
It could be safe to say that most of us grow up playing a character in someone else’s story. If I may assume, it’s typically our parents’ story or script. From day one, they dress us in what they want us to wear, feed us what they decide, tell us how to behave according to whatever their social norms or …
Being awkward is something that comes very naturally to me. Despite what many people think of me now, I am absolutely internally awkward to the core. Social norms are not my strength, and I’ve learned how to embrace being socially awkward because it wasn’t worth feeling like I was always the problem anymore. Growing up in the household I did …
Help Fund My Adventures and Get Yourself Something Nice Made by Me!I recently listened to this podcast episode that sparked me to write this. Until recently, I thought charisma was a negative thing to have. It’s too often interchanged with charm, and I think charm is possibly one element of charisma. However, charisma is a much deeper deep dive of …
