Tag: angst
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Photo by giarose Not everyone grows up to be Gandhi. Not all of us are meant to change the world and live capital L lives. There’s…
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My mother and I were recently discussing religion (can’t remember if this was before or after I threatened to become a Quaker). When she mentioned having been brought up to respect and revere members of the priesthood, I realized that I simply could not relate. Not even a little bit. Photo by bobster855 And it’s…
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Photo by phrenologist It feels as if I’m on a deadline lately. Not work-related (although, I do have one of those looming), but seasonal. Everyone I know is going through the same thing – feeling tired, foot-draggingly worn-out, staring out the window at the cold and the grey (which is only going to get colder…
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Last week, I asked my sister if I should devote more of GenMeh’s column inches to discussing the trials and triumphs of my own life. She wisely pointed out this wouldn’t exactly mesh with my uber private nature. Cards close to the vest and all that jazz. The privacy thing came up again when I…
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In a recent email interview (you're gonna dig this one, kids), I asked the interview subject which moments in his current life stand out as ones he would never have believed plausible or possible a few short years ago. The question actually prompted me to ask the same thing of myself. As it stands, my…
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Sometimes, I look at the searches that bring people to this site and I want to put my arm around the internet and give it as many cookies as it takes to make things all better. I’m equal parts natural born fixer and adamant eschewer of drama. It’s an odd combination to be sure. A…
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A friend of mine was remarking recently about how much she admires people with the courage not to let quotidian concerns stop them from following their dreams and how she wishes she could be this way. Considering this was a woman who arrived from Romania with only two suitcases and a couple hundred bucks in…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Read the first installment here. Photo by spike55151 You’ll never get what you claim to want if you don’t truly believe that you deserve to have…
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It has come to my attention that we are a generation of closet cases. The idea of the quarter-life crisis is ubiquitous enough to power an entire subgenre of Hollywood films, but no one will actually cop to being in the throes of one, unless, perhaps, you know them well enough to ask point blank…
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