Likes, favorites, retweets, comments, and all those weird emotion things Facebook just added. We live for instant gratification. It's not because we're selfish, it's because of the Internet. It's because we not only have to look great in person but we also have to look great online. There is more than one impression to make…
A lot of people are scared of changing. They are scared of the unknown and they are scared of their loved ones changing. Because when people change, you don't always change with them. But I actually love change. For four years of my life I was the same person, dating the same guy. I went…
September was a fun month, but it was so busy I hardly took any photos! Enjoy these snapshots that I managed to get.
There are three kinds of people. The people who live in the past, the people who live in the present, and the people who live in the future. I don't think many people live in the present. It's very hard to be completely aware of the moment you're in when you have years of junk…
Seriously, if everyone was as nice as the girls I run into drunkenly in the bar bathroom, my self-esteem would be through the roof. But it's not. It's not for most of us. We are constantly trying to live up to what we see on the magazine covers or on the popular Instagram pages. We…
Dating is hard. In our culture, we mate for life. We find a person as soon as we can to marry and have children with and grow old with. We have marriage benefits, we have joint bank accounts, and we share lives. That’s a very serious thing so the process to get there is very…
I’ve never really felt like I fit in. Being quite an introvert and a homebody, I’ve felt myself try to change on many occasions to please other people and to just be accepted. I’ve tried to be the girl that was too cool for school. The girl that only kept a few friends, hated all…
My first ever relationship was built on uncertainty. It was just like the movies, where there would be some sort of conflict and unrequited love. It was exciting, it made me think that all love needs to be that way. That we need to overcome some kind of problem in order to truly appreciate each…
Every other week someone I know is getting engaged, buying a house, or getting married. When you're in your twenties, there are three kinds of people in your friend group. The single ones, the ones who met their significant other in high school or college, and the ones who met their significant other after college…
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There are different ways that you can settle. You can settle for a job that you might feel uncomfortable with. You can settle for an apartment that you just feel "eh" about. You can settle for a relationship. I experienced one relationship that really made me terrified of settling. And after college I saw a…
