Courage Is It Finally Time For You to Step Up? Decide You can never go back. You can rise up from failures, screw-ups, and falls. But you can never go back. You may not have signed up for a hero’s journey. But hurt happens. It happens to all of us. The second you fell down, get your butt kicked, suffered a disappointment, screwed up, or felt […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 10, 2017June 10, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage The Crucial Starting Point: To Deal with Criticism The critic knows how to take something apart. But not how to assemble it. The critic will say. I’m just being brutally honest. Do you like anything that’s brutal, including honesty? I don’t. Honesty is honesty. But honesty that’s motivated by shame, anger, fear or hurt. Is not “honesty.” It’s shame, anger, fear and hurt. […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 12, 2017May 12, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage The Counter Intuitive Truth About Life Life is messy. Nothing rarely goes to plan. If it goes to plan. The plan will change. The plan implies control. Do you feel in control? I don’t. Control is an illusion. From clever men. Who believe they can control the ocean. Or tame it. The ocean is the ocean. The hope is to navigate […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interview Vulnerability Interview: Fiachra O’Sullivan What is vulnerability to you? Vulnerability for me is to feel. To feel sad, fear, abandoned, powerless, alone, rejected, and shame. What vulnerability feels like to you? Vulnerable me is ever-present. It is me as my most indivisible self. Written by Joel Mwakasege May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Growth Winning is an Attitude: Winners do not Whine they Roar You were born to win. To be a winner. You must plan to win. Prepare to win. And expect to win. The main difference between losers and winners. Is in what they do. A winner is someone who has given his best effort. Who tried the hardest he can. Use every ounce of energy and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Be Yourself Deal with it Life is struggle, and the struggle is real. You will get lonely sometimes. People you respect and admire will betray your trust. What brought you joy will turn into a source of sadness and tears. Crying might be alright for a while. But at the end of the day. You need to get up and […] Written by Joel Mwakasege July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Success Here Come New Ideas for Success Every day when I wake up. I always think of what I should do next. To become successful. My idea of success. Is having a roof over my head. Food on the table. An amazing wife that is in love with me. Kids that laugh, play, and don’t starve a day. A company I own […] Written by Joel Mwakasege March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life What is Writing All About? Featuring Megan Holstein Why do you write? I wanted a carrier that will allow me to read and learn. Not a lot of occupation allows for that. Challenges as you are writing? I would love to write about more complicated topics. But I’m not educated enough to treat honestly these topics that are challenging. I have also had […] Written by Joel Mwakasege September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Pole Dancing at 45 for My Birthday I’m well into my fifties now, so when I look back at how worried I was at forty that I was losing my mojo — all I can do is laugh. Oh, to be 40 again! At the time however, I was feeling youth slipping away. I’m sure there’s a lesson in there about perspective […] Written by Nancy Friedman August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life How Fatphobia is Strangling the Life Out of Me Despite being a straight-size person, fatphobia affects my life more than you would think. I have been chronically ill most of my life. I’m reasonably functional nowadays and enjoy full mobility, but that wasn’t always true. In college, while most people were partying and making friends, I was in and out of doctor’s appointments for […] Written by Megan Holstein August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life How to Deal with Emotional Abuse from Parents in 5 Ways In life, there are many choices that we can make. But there are certain things that we can’t choose. Family is one of them. I grew up in a Christian family with my Dad (a pastor), my Mom (a housewife), and my brother. Growing up in a Christian household means that I went to church […] Written by Ivan Budihardjo August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life One More Medical Treatment that Causes Infertility In Women I was 11 years old, waiting for the doctor to call me and my mom to come to see him. It was an exciting day that every relatively tall 11-year-old would experience; the day you get a glimpse into the future. They must have run a handful of tests, but I only remember finding out […] Written by Ysabeau Kloeg July 31, 2021August 10, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Love When I Say I Love You I Mean It When I say I love you I mean it. I’m talking about how I feel when you open up the front door after a long day at work. The door swings open, you roll your bike into the kitchen, and a smile forms on your face. It quickly makes it way to your kind eyes […] Written by Abby Quigle July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Should You Turn Your Hobby Into a Career? Should you turn your hobby into a career? About five years back, I acted on the cliched advice: follow your passion to get out of the rut of 9–5 job. I spent a good time at the first step — finding my passion. I had many hobbies that could become my passion. And as you […] Written by Rummy Kaur July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life This Simple Life Technique Will Help You Overcome Bad Experiences In Life The latest major release of human happened around 200,000 years ago. Most of the remaining time we were busy running away from predators, trying to find food to survive until the next day. Therefore, the graceful mother nature patched our brains with the default energy preservation mode. Our brain likes to develop repeatable patterns that will keep […] Written by Vadym Ovcharenko July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life 3 More Everyday Examples of toxic Masculinity Because of his rare public appearances, sporadic music releases, and ghostlike social media presence, many regard Frank Ocean as an enigmatic figure. He’s a bohemian in today’s fame-obsessed culture — one that values men by aggression, wealth, and dominance. These everyday examples of toxic masculinity are the touchstones for masculinity in the digital age. For […] Written by Hanmin Lee July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life How to Cut Down Smoking From 300 to 30 Cigarettes a Month in 4 Ways From when I was 16 to 18, I found it impossible to close my days without an entire packet. That’s 10 cigarettes a day. 300 cigarettes a month. It’s wild, but crazier to know I had friends that feasted on more than a packet every day. And in 2 years, I puffed on 7,200 cigarettes. […] Written by Aman Habib July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life I Miss My Father Who Passed Away I miss my father who passed away in 2016 on New Year’s Day, when I was 26. It was the second time we lost him—the first was five years earlier when a massive stroke hemorrhaged through his brain, leaving him hospitalized and in rehabilitation for the better part of two years. He never fully recovered. […] Written by Allison Ruttger July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life My Mom Makes Me Feel Bad About My Body and 4 Lessons I Learned As a child I wasn’t taught particularly good eating habits — in my family we ate because it was mealtime and not because we were hungry, and we always finished everything that was on the plate. Every meal was followed by pudding, including school dinners. As a result, I was always a little on the […] Written by Ellie Adams July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
When I Say I Love You I Mean It When I say I love you I mean it. I’m talking about how I feel when you open up the front door after a long day at work. The door swings open, you roll your bike into the kitchen, and a smile forms on your face. It quickly makes it way to your kind eyes […] Written by Abby Quigle July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Should You Turn Your Hobby Into a Career? Should you turn your hobby into a career? About five years back, I acted on the cliched advice: follow your passion to get out of the rut of 9–5 job. I spent a good time at the first step — finding my passion. I had many hobbies that could become my passion. And as you […] Written by Rummy Kaur July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What Is the Importance of Humanities In Our Lives? Anyone who knows me knows how defensive I am when i answer what is the importance of humanities in our lives. I’ve been a consistent academic performer all my life, bagging decent, even impressive scores in subjects I know I have absolutely no aptitude for (which just goes to show that much of our education is simply rote learning, […] Written by Sneha Sivaramakrishnan July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Do You Recognize These Hidden Signs of Fading Love? There’s a lot of things a strong relationship is able to overcome and power through; the death of a loved one, financial crisis, hefty compromises, trouble in the bedroom… and so on. Yet, there is something that can be the death of a relationship that goes seemingly undetected until it’s all too late — indifference. […] Written by Emma Loveday June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
4 Steps to Recover From Anxiety and Depression I took several steps to recover from anxiety and depression. But the moment I realized the severity of it all, I was sixteen years old. One night I had stripped down to take a shower, and before stepping in, I saw a profile of my body; I had always been a thin kid, but horror and […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Counter Intuitive Truth About Life Life is messy. Nothing rarely goes to plan. If it goes to plan. The plan will change. The plan implies control. Do you feel in control? I don’t. Control is an illusion. From clever men. Who believe they can control the ocean. Or tame it. The ocean is the ocean. The hope is to navigate […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
