When Responsibility Is Outsourced and Achievement Is Purchased

From the diary of a Gen X woman.

I think I finally reached the point whereby I no longer want to be part of the teaching industry. Because there are no longer people who want to be taught. I no longer want to have to be a salesman to convince people that learning new things is not only useful but also exciting. For me the world is full of wonder, and I feel like I’m passionate about way too many things. And when I’m passionate about something, I want to explore that thing, dive deeply into the belly of t

Generational trauma is a term that’s been tossed around a lot. I mean, we always had feuds between generations, but I have a feeling that back in the day we respected the elders. Now, there are no elders as anyone who’s above [what seems like] 22 is deemed old. Now, I probably could be the first one to blame my parents for how things were but, after 20 years of doing so, I concluded that it is beyond fruitless. Being mad at my parents, continuously, and living in the space

We’re too comfortable to care.

And in that choice, you abandon powerlessness and victimhood of the cards that you’ve been given.

Letters from the Sidelines of a Burning World

On Letting Go of Labels, Outcome, and the Cult of Belonging.

The Day I Stopped Hoping and Started Living

Last week I finally caught up with the TV series ‘Normal People’. One thing that caught my attention was the part when Marianne gets annoyed with people writing eulogies (on FB) for people who died and how terribly superficial and insincere these comments are. Who are those people writing these things for? Surely not for the person who died? When I struggle to see my own self-worth, which is a concept I've been reflecting on a lot lately, I think of death. What am I going t

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