Life The Antidote to Despair Curiosity is an antidote to despair.Despair is the spiritual disease of believing that tomorrow will simply be a repeat of today. Nothing new. The future simply an unbroken string of todays, one after another. But curiosity, curiosity disrupts despair, insisting that tomorrow will not be a repeat of today. Curiosity whispers to you, You’re just getting […] Written by Joe Cardillo April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Why Did I Feel Like Running Away from Home? Why did I feel like running away from home? When I was in the third grade. I ran away from home. Or at least, I tried to — I didn’t quite get past the front door. It was a Chinese exam that had motivated this, or more specifically, my father’s reaction to it. Upon laying […] Written by Nathanael Kusanda April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life I Spent 4 Weeks in a War-Torn Country Pre-cursor to the story. The story involves Palestine and Israel. I will be calling Palestine, Palestine as this is what is officially recognised as by all UN countries apart from 2. I will not get into the conflict, nor the wrongs or rights of each side. This piece is not a political statement. All images […] Written by Jack K.M. April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life As a child, I got bullied While I was a young child, I got bullied for having large ears and obviously for being the new kid. When I was a teenager I got bullied for being gay. Physical features and things I couldn’t change were what I got bullied for. As a child, not great. I couldn’t do anything about it […] Written by Jack K.M. April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life What it Was Like Growing Up With Hoarders It’s hard to overcome your childhood. I have a lot of baggage, which is appropriate considering the house I was raised in. I grew up with two hoarders for parents, in extremely filthy conditions. Now, I go through periods of panic where I attack clutter like an enemy. My wife doesn’t like it, but she […] Written by Tim Ebl April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life How I Landed My First Job Out of College I’m writing this article to share a bit more about myself and how I found my first job after college. As the spring semester approaches, many college seniors are dreading the thought of graduating without a job. Although the job market stalled because of COVID-19, there are signs that the job market will pick up […] Written by Brandon Roopnarain April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life A Letter to My Younger Self: I’m Sorry I Let You Down This is a letter to my younger self as I remember it. At 8 years old, I was jamming to Avril Lavigne’s song “Complicated” on the radio and passionately looking for a way to download that song into my black-and-white-screen phone. I was also thinking: “Damn, Avril Lavigne has got everything, a successful career, and […] Written by Christian Todd March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life 4 Tips on How to Stay Sober From Alcohol at a Party Note: until it’s safe to party in-person, these tips apply to socially-distant, digital events. Before the first party, I went sober, I hadn’t had a drink in five months and was starting to feel socially unfulfilled. A friend of mine was a drummer in an alt-rock band and posted his upcoming show on Instagram which […] Written by Daisy Gumin March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Benefits of No Alcohol for 3 Years and 3 Fears I Had to Overcome When I first quit drinking apart from the benefits of no alcohol brings I wanted everything in my life to stay exactly the same. The only difference would be that I was no longer drinking. I didn’t want anyone to know if I was drinking or not drinking, and I definitely didn’t want it to […] Written by Heather Lowe March 14, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Facing Difficulties In life and Unexpected Ways You Can Get Help Today I found these earrings in storage, I had no idea where they were for nearly twenty years. The earrings came from the short time I lived in East Jerusalem during the Second Intifada in 2002. I had lived in the West Bank for a year in order to keep a children’s school open during […] Written by Poppy Nagano February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs About Yourself I used to be a short distance runner. That’s probably a little misleading. What I should say is, back in high school, I used to run short distances really well. I didn’t like long-distance running, I thought I wasn’t made out for it. I was lying to myself. 10 years on and I wasn’t doing […] Written by Zed Bee February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life The Missing Ingredients When You Need to Be Heard and Understood It’s that time of the year again, the time we celebrate love in all shapes or forms. I usually don’t like to give in to social constructs but I have to admit that it never fails to remind me that yet another year went by and I am still feeling the need to be heard […] Written by Riddhi Mistry February 19, 2021February 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How I Landed My First Job Out of College I’m writing this article to share a bit more about myself and how I found my first job after college. As the spring semester approaches, many college seniors are dreading the thought of graduating without a job. Although the job market stalled because of COVID-19, there are signs that the job market will pick up […] Written by Brandon Roopnarain April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Powerful Key that Resolves Severe Effects of Trauma on The Body Effects of trauma on the body for traumatized people cause them to feel chronically unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. “Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become experts at numbing awareness of what is […] Written by Joel Mwakasege March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Say I Disagree In a Smart Way One of the most troubling aspects of this new hyper-digital era is our crumbling ability to communicate with people who disagree with us. There is the sense that we are shouting across a void at one another — in completely different languages. Our rebuttals are locked and loaded as we scan tweets, posts, and articles […] Written by Kenton Klassen February 9, 2021February 12, 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
What Narcissistic Fathers Do to Their Daughters and 7 Insecurities It Cause It was December. Another year had gone by and to my mom’s dismay- I was still single! I’d been dating for a while but there was no sign of “The One”. I was in a good place- my career was going great, I looked my best and had a few guys who were interested in […] Written by Anna Taylor December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Gynecologist Used Violence Against Me During My First Birth How many times have you been subjected to violence? How many times couldn’t you complain and shut up? How many times your reaction was only crying? It has been 10 months since I gave birth to my first child. I couldn’t get over the suffering and pain of childbirth yet. I have a lot of […] Written by Hadir Ramadan November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
