I grew up in a house where every member of my family would gather around the dinner table every night for a hot meal and eat together. My mother would suffer no excuses when it came to eating dinner as a family; it was a constant in her household. The only exceptions I can recall is that if one of us were not at home during dinnertime (frowned ( Read more... )

• It’s okay to let people in. You don’t always have to hold people at arm’s length.
• It’s also okay to let people love you.
• But it’s not okay to continue loving someone who doesn’t love you back.
• Friends are always there for you. Always. This is an unquestionable fact.
• Don’t let anyone give you anything less than what you deserve.

I’ve noticed something while traveling with my grandfather in mainland China: he always favors sons over daughters.

My mom once told me that my grandfather favored her brothers over herself and her sisters. I know that it is very traditionally Chinese for the males of the family to be favored over the females, but I could never quite understand ( Read more... )

• Problems will always be there until you deal with them; running from them accomplishes nothing.
• Never make one person your whole world, because if you do, you will always be holding yourself back.
• Love freely, love largely, love with all your heart, but never give your love to someone who doesn’t care for it.
• Never underestimate the strength you can ( Read more... )

They say bad things happen for a reason
But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding
‘Cause [he's] moved on while I’m still grieving
And when a heart breaks, no it don’t breakeven, even, no
- Breakeven, The Script

I can say with confidence that the best part of me is not him, despite the fact that he is a huge part of my life, but that doesn’t make ( Read more... )

I’ve been a little scarce of late and when I have been around, my entries haven’t exactly been the most personal or insightful. This is because I seem to have fallen into a bit of a state that, well… I don’t know. A state that involves a lot of feeling discouraged and worthless, I guess. It’s complicated.

I’m not satisfied with where a lot of ( Read more... )

This is something I’ve always wondered - how do people define the term “hooking up”?

I looked it up on Urban Dictionary to see if there was a general consensus about what the term defines, and this was the first definition I found:

Hooking up: An incredibly ambiguous phrase that drives me absolutely insane when people use it.
Example: John hooked ( Read more... )

Some people can matter little to others, to the point where it doesn’t matter what gets risked because it’s not like they’ll be cut up over things ending badly if they never cared deeply in the first place.

Some people can matter so much to others, to the point where everything is played safe because the thought of risking something with someone so ( Read more... )

I’m curious as to how people choose to dry their hair after washing it. Blowdryers? Air dry? Wet-to-dry straighteners? Some other form of hair drying that I am not aware of?

I ask because when I stayed with my godmother for a weekend, she was shocked to find out that I hate using anything to dry my hair. I’m all about air drying; it’s the ( Read more... )

This past week (keep in mind it is only Tuesday!) I have done the following:

• Had dinner with my entire extended family
• Had dinner with my godmother and her family
• Had 6 Skype dates, the shortest of which lasted an hour
• Had lunch with a childhood friend - the last time we’d seen each other was over ten years ago (!!!)

For the remainder of the week, I ( Read more... )