It took me a long time to figure out how to be happy. Most of us are not raised to be happy, we are raised to be perfect, or accommodating, or accomplished. This leaves a lot of us anxious, frustrated, or angry. I was all three. Of course part of my struggle was at times […]
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Life Isn’t Fair
Life isn’t fair. We lose loved ones to illness and age, even as we suffer with our own aging and illnesses. Things, like people, become lost or broken in time. The nature of life is that it ends. Life isn’t fair, not when anyone is cheated, abused, or harmed by others. But in these instances […]
The Age of Narcissism
We are living in an age of narcissism. Nothing is more celebrated than the self. Lives are carefully curated into content – images, opinions, experiences – that are then idealized, digitized, publicized, and monetized. Narcissism is usually described as extreme selfishness and self absorption, with grandiose views of talents and accomplishments, and grandiose needs for attention […]