Tag: observations
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Fear
Fear is an interesting thing. We all have different fears – heights, pain, children, dentists, clowns, ketchup stains and so on – but we all have some of the same fears, too. Failure is a biggie, but in my experience, it isn’t just “failure” that’s the problem. It’s the consequences of failure that we’re afraid…
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The Crazy is Showing…
Things have been rough lately. It seems to happen that way – I don’t know if it’s a Universe-tosses-a-bannana-in-my-path-for-reasons thing or if it’s coincidence or what, but it seems to feel like whenever I start to peacefully pull myself together, tornado-volcano-earthquake happens. I thought I’d been dealing rather well with certain changes in “The Plan.”…
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Doubts
Doubts are hard. I mean they are useful, they serve an evolutionary purpose. Doubt makes one give a second, more careful look at something. Doubt gives you reason to move cautiously, maybe take in a few extra details about the situation or your plans. Doubt may have saved an ancestor or two from becoming some…
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Directions?
Have you ever decided to take a long, hard look at your life and *think* about what it is your doing and why and what you are expecting to get out of it? Have you ever noticed that in most movies, the hero doing this manages to sort his/her shit out in a single night…
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Difficult to Work With…
Does not play well with others. Has her own way of doing things. It never occurred to me that these things might be applied to me. The other day it popped into my head – the realization that in college, I had one hell of a time keeping roommates. They switched out every damned semester…
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Fantasies
Do you think writers (and the more voracious readers) have fewer affairs? This is where a lot of affairs start: you’re unhappy. Why you’re unhappy could be any number of reasons; financial, you don’t feel appreciated, you feel used, disconnected, fill-in-the-blank. Whatever the reason, whatever the perceived cause, you’re unhappy. You don’t like being unhappy.…
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