I wonder if I’ll ever feel normal. I wonder if I ever did. It’s easy to say I did… but then again, it’s easy to say I never did. What am I even talking about? Does normal even exist? If I said it doesn’t, that would make sense on one level, because we all operate … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 87: What is Normal? What is God?
I’m a person. I’m a human being. I love life. Life is hard. Hard things are often worth doing. Life is a challenge, but it’s a blessing to get to live it. I don’t know what to write about, so I’m writing random facts down. I like writing. I think there’s a reason for my … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 83: Spontaneous Writing. Life Keeps Going.
I’ve always been fairly healthy throughout most of my life. Although overall that’s still the case, and I’m extremely grateful for that, this year has been slightly different than every other year I’ve lived through so far. Towards the end of 2023 I started getting all kinds of symptoms of what I eventually realized was … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 82: Blessings in Disguise: Take Nothing for Granted
As we grow older, we realize that all we truly want is peace, both peace of mind and peace in the external sense. What more can we truly want than a place where we can relax and truly be ourselves, in the truest sense as well as in every sense? If we can share that … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 75: True Peace of Mind is Hard to Find
No matter who it is that hurt you, or the magnitude of the pain they have inflicted on you, never justify your revenge on someone else's actions. At the end of the day, life is a constant struggle, not necessarily against others but against ourselves, or at least the darker aspects of ourselves. There’s a … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 74: Anger is an Acid
It's crazy that many of us never fully realize just how much of an impact our very existence has on the people around us, and just how much we might matter to certain people. We might not really feel too connected to anyone in our lives, so we could feel like we don't really matter … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 73: We’re Not Always Aware of Our Impact
wonder when this thing will become weird, you know what I mean? I mean, right now it’s only been sixty-seven days, but what about when I’ve been writing for thousands of days straight? Who knows? Maybe it’ll never matter at all, no matter how many days I go for. After all, I’m just one person … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 67: Living Through Goals & Experiments
I think it would do us all a lot of good to embrace the uncertainty of life, to have an open and inviting attitude towards change, even when we know if could be uncomfortable or even totally dreadful. Now, I don’t speak as an authority on this at all. I love my life, and the … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 65: Appreciating Uncertainty
One thing we should always be aware of is our health, and we should never take it for granted. No matter what we may believe about life, whether in a religious sense or a moral sense, whether in a philosophical sense or a metaphysical or spiritual one, we can all agree that our body is … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 64: Health & Gratitude
Life can get tiring. I’m sure this truth is clear to most, if not all. There's nothing mind-blowing or groundbreaking about that statement, but since I have to get my daily post done, and that’s what I have on my mind at the time, I have to write it, I can't just ignore it. Anxiety … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 62: The Struggle That is Life
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