Tag: live
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Painting in Gray
The author shares their deep love for Christmas but struggles with feelings of sadness during the season. They reflect on the impact of weather on their mood, the weight of grief around them, and emphasize the importance of acknowledging emotions without the need to fix them.
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Feels So Good?
Why does pain hurt so bad? I mean, I could learn to love lessons if they didn’t come with pain attached. We’ve all heard the age-old adage, “No pain. No gain.” But sometimes, I’d like to have gains devoid of pain. In the same vein, I treated pain as a virtue. I figure if I…
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A Thank You Letter (My Ode to Mr. Gaillard)
Dear Mr. Gaillard, I wanted to take this time to write to you. Albeit my feelings are disheveled because I know that this is a letter you’ll never get to read, I’m still writing it anyway. Where do I begin? You had such a profound impact on me as a beginner band student and ultimately…
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Unfair Expectations
I expected my friends to support the things that I did because they’re my friends (the good things, of course). I think that I’m a pretty good friend and I deserve the same type of loyalty and commitment that other people get from me. Is that too much to ask? I can’t be the only…
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I am just a man.
I used to think of myself according to the above sentence. I felt like,” I’m doing the best I can; I’m just a man.” If you think about it, it’s just a way to rationalize mediocrity. If I see myself as being just a man, I can fall back on the many fallacies of being…
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When I Was a Child
I admire those adults who have managed to keep their “inner child”alive. But it’s not easy.
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The Character of Imperfections
I have often had a hard time determining who was genuinely for me, and those who just hung around. You see, I suffer from what is known as imperfectus charctus: Lacking the ability to see people for who they really are. It is pretty interesting because I’ve always been this way, or at least used to…
