Tag: coping

My Favorite Line from Every Song on “Midnights”

I love Taylor Swift’s music. Especially her most recent albums: Folklore, Evermore and Midnights. My favorite thing about her music is the lyrics. She’s wicked sharp with words. I mean. “Oh, goddamnMy pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand” So, in most of her songs there’s a phrase or a turn of phrase…

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Snapshot

I ask myself, sometimes
How can I remember this moment?
But I don’t know yet;
the memories only flow
one way

18 Ways to Marginally Improve Your Life Right Now

If you’re like me, you want to do big things that get big results. The reality is that improving your life is not black and white, and you can take small steps right now to incrementally make yourself feel better, one breath at a time. Add up enough little things and they start to make…

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Random Thoughts on Forgiveness

I like to play around with words. Forgiveness, in its original and primary sense, refers to the cancellation of a debt. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word comes from for–, (probably meaning in this case “completely,”) and giefan, meaning “to give”. So when you forgive a debt, you basically just change whatever the…

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No One Can Ever Make You Feel That Way Again

You know better now. It came to me the other night, as all the best thoughts do, while I was drifting between waking and sleep. I am so afraid of the feelings of unworthiness, of being unloved and unwanted, that I often hide in my shell, refusing to take chances. But the truth is that…

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