What is your deepest, darkest fear?
Submitted by [Susan].
BEING ALONE
What most excites you about the way you're living your life right now?
Truthfully, I don't think that I have too much to be excited about. I am stressed at my job, underpaid and overworked. I don't know how to maintain positive and healthy relationships with others. I'm been placed on Academic Probation at the University and am looking at failing the quater. I don't have a life plan set out, I don't know what I'm going to be doing 5 years from now. Honestly, if I wasn't such a coward, I would have killed myself already.
However, I've come to the realization that I am in control of my own happiness. I owe a great deal of this realization to
What most excites you about the way you're living your life right now?
Truthfully, I don't think that I have too much to be excited about. I am stressed at my job, underpaid and overworked. I don't know how to maintain positive and healthy relationships with others. I'm been placed on Academic Probation at the University and am looking at failing the quater. I don't have a life plan set out, I don't know what I'm going to be doing 5 years from now. Honestly, if I wasn't such a coward, I would have killed myself already.
However, I've come to the realization that I am in control of my own happiness. I owe a great deal of this realization to
Each and every day of your life can be a brand new adventure, because you can learn to live in the moment and truly appreciate the world around you. I am excited by the prospect that I am alive, and the wonders that surround me. Look at the great accomplishments that mankind has achieved. If we can harness the brilliance of the human race, and use our abilities to create rather than destroy, then we can indeed create a New Earth.
Take control of your life. Make positve decisions. Keep a positive outlook on life, because no matter how bad you may think you have it, there is always something worse out there. So when you wake up tomorrow, pause, and feel the excitement of just being alive. You are human, and have great potential, but you are only just so. Only you know how much you can take on. If you think you can, or you think you can't, then either way, you're right.
Remember to count your blessings, and try to give back to the world around you, because seeing what you can accomplish on a day to day basis, one on one, you versus the world, is the most exciting journey that there is.
Show us a photo of you with a funny haircut.
My freshman year of college, and this probably isn't the worst of it. It got really long, and everyone either called me a hippie or hawaiian.
What is your definition of cheating?
Cheating comes in many forms. I guess it would depend on the context as to what cheating actually constitutes. For me, the concept of cheating, the first thing that pops into my conciousness is unfaithfulness to one's partner.
But again, it would depend on the context, because depending on the relationship, cheating, in the eyes of the offended, could be many things.
I'm going to give an account of what I consider Cheating from my perspective.
I used to have feelings for a girl, we will call her Amanda. We were friends and more than friends for a long time, then we went our separate ways. She started seeing someone else, but neither of us actually closed off the possibility of getting back together. Whenever she would have problems with her new boyfriend, she would always come crying to me about it. She was the kind of person that needed constant reassurance that she was loved.
It took me a while to realize that I was in love with Amanda. She was the girl next door. I had fought for years with these feelings, and they came bubbling to the surface one day. I told her how I felt. I knew she felt the same way. Or at least I thought she did.
Here, already we have several forms of cheating. Emotionally, I feel that she was cheating her boyfriend of the love and support that is supposed to come with a relationship. I would have, without a doubt, stolen her away from the putz that she had been seeing.
So we made plans to try and re-ignate the flames of our relationship. We set a date to go out, and then she called an cancelled, said that she was out shopping with her cousin, and had lost track of time. That, however, wasn't the case.
A friend of mine, and I use that term lightly, had begun talking to her behind my back. A friend that I had told my feelings of her to. He knew that I was trying to get back together with her. That I thought that I loved her. And he saw her anyway. This is because he was the type of person that jumped at the opportunity to have attention from the opposite sex. An individual who wasn't very confident in his abilites with relationships.
Needless to say, when the skeletons came out of the closet, I was heartbroken. I felt like Caeser, stabbed in the back by Brutus.
So to me, Cheating is the Betrayal of one's Trust. It doesn't matter what the situation. To cheat means that you have gone against your better judgement, and misused the trust that someone has placed in you, whether it is in taking a test, doing a job at work, or maintaing a happy and healthy relationship.
