My closest RL friend has just given birth to a baby boy and, less than an hour old, the kiddo already has pictures up on Facebook. (Congrats to kiddo's mom and dad!)

It just occurred to me that 15-20 years from now, when kiddo's dating-- the whole  "share embarrassing baby pictures to your potential significant other" is going to take on a ( Read more... )

"When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won’t be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way."
-- Nido Qubein
Yikes. And double-yikes. Is this what I do? Is this a bad thing? And if it is, what's the better way to approach our future? Hmmm. How do ( Read more... )