June 2011
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You're Asking the Wrong Question
theangrytherapist:
Instead of asking yourself how you feel about him/her. Ask yourself how he/she makes you feel. When you focus on what you like about someone, you are letting them off the hook. This question allows fantasy. If you flip it and ask how they make you feel, suddenly you’re snapped back into realty. They are up at bat. Are they striking out or hitting home runs?
I think we...
“1. Instead of spending all of your money on that new phone, clothes, or big...”
– 40 Signs You’re a True Traveler
Haha awesome!
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I am now officially a certified open water scuba...
So day 4 and the completion of my open water certification has arrived! Scuba diving is everything and more than what I imagined it to be. Got to experience being covered in a school of fish and having monster sized blue gropers and manta ray’s swim past my belly without a flinch. Managed to witness sheer drops of rock and coral shelves that opened up into more sea floor than you could...
One day before I am an officially certified scuba...
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My day in a nutshell.
Spent all morning making phone calls. Realised the insurance company hadn’t refunded me $200 for excess insurance I’d paid. 8D Pee’d into a cup. Blew into a hole. Felt like a guinea pig. Slept throughout the afternoon and woke up without my pants on. WTF.
Exciting. Right?
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“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above...”
– - Chick Benetto, For One More Day
Never forget.
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So Mum was wiping down the furniture in my...
Whilst I was asleep..
On her way out to close the door, apparently the door knob fell off after she had shut the door. Didn’t bother to tell me either.
Woke up and was locked inside because turning my end of the knob meant nothing if the other side still wasn’t screwed on. Had to call from INSIDE my bedroom to the home phone because she couldn’t hear me calling out to her.
I...
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Life doesn't get better.
jellymelly:
Only your concept of life improves. Always think positive, because nothing will ever be perfect. & Accepting that makes it seem as if your life improved, but it hasn’t, you’ve just learned to perceive life in a different way.
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“There are believed to be 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United...”
– My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas comes out as an illegal immigrant in NYT Magazine. (via: infinite hope)
Disturbingly inspirational is all I have to say.
A must read for anyone who has a heart.
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“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
– Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)
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