This New Years Eve was very chill, but pretty much perfectly ended one of the most "chill" years of my life. 24 year life...wow what a life. 24 years seemed so old when we were young. You expected so many things to happen by then. Your dreams were to be met by then. Adulthood was idolized ( Read more... )

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life. Even more unfortunate is the one who gained them, and through his deeds, lost them

For the past couple of weeks my focus at my practicum has been strongly related to the issue of relational aggression. In short, relational aggression is the way females tend to bully and hurt one another. Tools used in relational aggression are thing such as rumour spreading, talking down to someone, socially isolating the victim, forcing friends ( Read more... )

 I feel as though I am really stuck in limbo. My head and heart is already halfway to the big city by now, and the rest of me thats left here feels like its shattered in pieces just trying to get through the daily grind. I feel like this year is just a means to an end and part of me feels like I am allowing myself to be pushed to the max, simply ( Read more... )

 I feel like one of those naive girls now. One who actually believed "this is it, this is love" and put her faith in someone who was only half in it most of the time.

It could be described as a "gut feeling" on his part, and a "God thing" on mine but either way you label it Matt and I are no longer in a relationship together. I felt this looming ( Read more... )

 I realized I never came back to LJ to explain the post break up ness. It actually did end up just being a break. It was incredible how during our time/space we both thought very similar things and it was also nice to hear him voice them first because to me that made it seem more sincere and less forced ( Read more... )

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So I have been reading this book callled girl meet's God. A book my friend James bought me after a lengthy rant from me on how I don't understand Messianic Judiasm and how I feel bad for having lost a really close friendship over it because I was completely not open (and still am not) to the idea of combining religions. However, I have a friend who ( Read more... )

I think the fact that everyone else's lives are falling apart in front of my eyes and they are running to me to help them pick up the pieces, means I start seeing my life as falling apart as well. It's like their suffering is projected on to me. Not that it is their fault. But maybe it just goes to show I am no where near ready to help people in ( Read more... )

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the ( Read more... )