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One Year Later

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles
jason clapp from vancouver, Clark county, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I started this blog to help me through some inner turmoil. I figured that putting down everything I was feeling and thinking would make these emotional vampires concrete. At which point, they could be vanquished with a single and deftly placed stake through the heart.

So here I am, one year later, reflecting upon that very first post and wondering if nothing, anything or everything has changed. Was I successful in slaying these vampires?

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Wrecking Ball

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All I wanted was to break your walls. All you ever did was wreck me.

Miley Cyrus

There was always one subject in school that I could never stay awake for: history. It’s not that I didn’t think it was important, it was just that I could never materialize its relevance to my life. What’s the point of reading about clinical stories that were written by the victors? I came, I saw, I conquered. Substitute the word “I” with your favorite historical figures. Big whoop.

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Brake Down

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi
The tortoise and the hare. Some rights reserved by matea2506

Our society has an obsession with speed. It has permeated into every facet of our lives. You’ve probably heard of fast food, lightning cables, and speed reading. It’s better to finish work and chores quickly rather than slowly. If you’re stumped by a question, the answer is at your fingertips waiting for you on the Internet. This ludicrously fast culture is a mastermind at delivering instant gratification.

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