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What Makes Me Tick
Have you ever felt that sensation in your heart, your soul, and your mind, that just makes you feel a purpose? Does it make you feel relief from the stressful world around us? Does it make you feel calm, alive, and amazing all at once? Does it make everything seem like when it is just you and that one thing the whole world has just stopped clean in its tracks, and everything right now is just blissfully perfect? I have and I couldn’t even begin to describe the magic of it. It’s not only my hobby, it also my job. It is the very thing that makes me tick ad keeps me going when things are dark and grey!
By Brianna Payne5 years ago in Confessions
Am I Enough??
Let's start off with this, i am a woman in her late 40's. Plus sized women and have always had issues with how i look and being self conscious of that. I am pretty enough for a man to take the time to get to know me. Over the years, i have grown to except myself for me, but those nagging thoughts are always there.
By Kirsten Ross5 years ago in Confessions
When Your Tribe Is - Not Belonging. Top Story - June 2021.
I belong to nowhere. This realization came to me when I was living in London, United Kingdom. I had managed to save up enough holidays to make a month-long trip back to India. I excitedly told my colleague - 'I am going home.' He looked surprised and said, 'Well, you do that every day.' And that's when I realized that home to me had many meanings, unlike other people. And a little bit of introspection, and I realized I had a PhD in not fitting in.
By Anu Sundaram5 years ago in Confessions
Thanks, Mom! An Unforgettable Tale of Embarrassment from an American Adolescence
Hi, If your reading this you should feel really glad. Yes, feel really glad you didn't grow up with my mom. Fortunately, my mom is awesome but growing up she was always able to come up with the most wonderful ideas.
By K. Taylor5 years ago in Confessions
Thankgivin' in Da Bayou
I grew up in a small town in Southeast Texas called Bridge City. Like most teenagers, I went to parties and would sneak out of my friends’ houses with them. One night when I was 17, I met a guy named Colin. Our friends tried to get us to talk but I wasn’t really interested.
By Brandy Enn5 years ago in Confessions
A Life Alone
It’s an interesting feeling when you’re in a crowd and feel alone but it’s even more frustrating when you’re in a family and feel alone. I am one of six and while I always had an amazing relationship with my mother, I was never able to connect with my siblings or dad the way they connected with each other. As a teen this haunted me and I would ask what I found a great number of kids ask their parents “am I adopted?” This would usually lead to laughter and a reminder that I looked way too much like my mom to in fact be adopted. As I grew older I was never able to shake this feeling that I was just different. So I collected that because we had parents who allowed us to explore our own desired paths in life that it made this feeling more prominate. I have a sister who enjoys the arts of food, a sister who is a genius with numbers, one brother was great with cars while the other wanted to explore ministry and the oldest brother took to ranching and construction. I’m the creative one in the family, the musically inclined, the inquisitive one. But the character trait that separated me the most was that I research what I’m told, I don’t like taking things at face value, I run towards conflict in hopes to make a change, I enjoy reading books and writing. These things made me “odd” and different but then I was always quickly reminded that different was “a good thing” I learned to except what was and grew accustomed to the idea that I was just different and I shouldn’t put much thought into it.
By Crystal Gordon5 years ago in Confessions
Sucker Punched At The End
As a young child, I always had a self-conscious attitude towards myself. Coming from divorced parents and making the decision at a young age to stay with my father instead of my mother. Which is not the normal thing to do even when I was young. I thought that I would be better off with my father and in many ways I was. Me and my brother keep each other company, getting ourselves into trouble as young kids do. We lived in the family home and once my parent were divorced it was different in many ways. My mother was absent a lot of the time, as she had taken up with my father’s best friend at the time. Resentment for me had started at a young age towards my mother.
By Kirsten Ross5 years ago in Confessions
What A Day
I've been embarrassed about numerous things all my life but one incident in particular made me feel like it was the end of my world. It was my 15th birthday and I was so excited to get up at 6:15 that morning. I was so excited to see what my day was going to be like. Never been this excited to see what my mother had in store for me.
By Savannah Brock 5 years ago in Confessions
That didn't just happen
You know when you are just sitting reflecting back on all your life and then there is this thought that creeps in and you say to yourself "Oh S**T" I forgot about that and then roll about laughing. Well I am going to share one of my most embarrassing moments. I had just had a baby and me and the other half were getting back into our sex life when he proposed we make a video of us, I agreed after all he was my husband and it sounded fun and spontanious. We did the deed and watched our movie back then it was put away in a safe place.
By Michelle King5 years ago in Confessions
Struggling passion
When I first saw this challenge, honestly I got a little bit upset. Why? Why would anyone get upset about the beautiful feeling of PASSION? Because most of the things I used to be passionate about has dimmed over time. I doubt I'll win anything because of that statement, but this is about the deep struggles with the passions in my life, the best ones I've had to change, let go and accept.
By CosmicAli5 years ago in Confessions
