Why is it that we tend to reject lovers who come on too strongly? Have you ever thought about this? At first glance, immediate attraction would seem to be a compliment: if the person can so quickly surmise that they like us, then we must be really great. Wouldn’t that bode well for our security… Continue reading Why we sometimes reject apparent love
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I have one tattoo, on my back, which is a symbol of a tree bending in the wind. At the time I got it, my interpretation was that that tree is strongest which bends most in the wind. This was because, after graduating from college in 2013, I had applied to top graduate programs in… Continue reading Home
God does not care if you are happy!
What would your life be like if you stopped placing pressure on yourself to be happy versus other emotions? What if you trusted that God was indifferent to your feelings? https://youtu.be/GIMKhie7Vx4
Death of the projected self
As the gap grows between the self you are and the self you thought you would be, Your envisioned self dies the death of a million cuts, Like a drawing incrementally erased from a white board. You are strong where he is weak, Grieving where he is alight with fancy, Alive where he is dead,… Continue reading Death of the projected self
How to make decisions – really!
How has our culture taught us to make decisions? Why is this method ineffective? What is a better method for making decisions? What does it say about life that this method works? Once we have made a decision, what tools can we use to evaluate it? https://youtu.be/mmuW2LCqhlw
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 