Some people say don’t get your hopes up because then you will be disappointed. I will have to disagree with this statement. Without hope you’re not vulnerable. If you’re not vulnerable, then this will lead you to build up walls around your heart.
Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
By: On the DL Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket It’s a saying we’ve all heard at one point or another, and it can relate to a variety of situations: job prospects personal life choices relationships you name it I’ve followed that advice all my life. I plan everything I can and try
Putting On My Armor
By: High Hopes Everyday!!!
Insanity Or Courage?
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” –Ambrose Redmoon
He’s Just Too Into You
You’ve heard the phrase “he’s just not that into you.”
I argue a guy can avoid you because he once was too into you.
At least twice recently, I had conversations with women about men from their pasts. In both cases my two friends knew the men from workplaces, were close friends or at least kind of fooled around with them, had lost touch over the years, and had slightly reconnected via Facebook
But both female friends said roughly the same thing to me.
“He doesn’t show any interest in maintaining the friendship we used to have.”
My response to both of the women is “He was too into you.”
Hitting The Road
I found a magazine among my stack the other day and flipped through it. It was a publication from the county in Northern California where, until recently, my mother Ann and stepfather Bob lived.
I read the ads and the few articles. The magazine was mostly designed for out of town visitors. I was particularly interested in the map on page 82.
There’s a covered bridge near their place?
I guess I did know that. Why on earth didn’t I check that out when I had the chance?
I was reminded of all the trips I decided not to make for no good reason. I skipped weddings and more.
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Never Lose Hope For Happily Ever After
It sometimes can seem lonely around the holidays, but when I look around and see the many adorable couples new and old, I never lose hope for my happily ever after. It might take some work but there is an ever after.
After all, I am a princess. Therefore I know I will marry a prince. Riding off into the sunset on a beach will happen. Have faith and never worry. It causes wrinkles.
Stop searching for your prince. 
Remember the prince came looking for Cinderella and found her. He will find you and the shoe will fit.
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Who Do You Love?
By: On the DL
As a mass communication and English writing major, I’ve always found it interesting how one word can have multiple meanings. We all have a pretty good idea of what the word “love” means. If you don’t know the definition, Merriam-Webster online can show you at least nine of them! It’s a word that not only carries different meanings but also varying degrees of emotion.
Looking for love….
I Wish I Was Wrong
At some point in the last three months or so I became acutely aware that all I had been experiencing in the last three years or so (and especially in the last two years) has been happening for some grand cosmic reason.
Oh how I often wish it wasn’t so. But it is.
The knowledge of this is like when you know that the guy or gal you’re dating or married to isn’t right for you but gosh darn it he or she is better than being alone.
You wish you didn’t know it and you wish you were wrong.
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Your Kind Of Adventure
What kind of an adventure would you like to embark on?
Would you want one where all the options are chosen in advance?
Would you want an adventure where all the risks have been thoroughly assessed?
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Busy, Crazy Busy, And Too Busy For You
My friend and fellow journalist Steve is always busy. Busy. So terribly busy.
I asked him once, “Do you have time to hang around with me?”
“No. Too busy for you.”
I would argue he doesn’t want to stop being busy, even if a genie popped from a bottle and gave him one bazillion dollars.
Look at this person! This person is busy. Crazy busy!
Time Machine
Oh how people wish they could go back in time or forward in time……
In the early 1990s, I bought a computer game for my father John for some occasion like a birthday, Father’s Day, or the holidays. The game ran on our MS-DOS system computer and bore the name Timequest.
The plot begins in the year 2090. A bad guy has stolen a time machine and traveled into the past. He’s altering historical events to make the outcomes of these events change. The game player is charged with taking another time machine and stopping and reversing the heinous doings of the bad guy. If the bad guy isn’t stopped, the world will fall apart.
Timequest was hard to play. My father and I had to order the secret manual from the creator in order to manuever our ways through six geographical locations in nine different time periods. The secret involved gathering items or doing just the right thing in order to stop the altered timelines.
We seemed to often get stuck dealing with the death of Julius Caesar in Rome of 44 BC.
Mysterious Illnesses Of Facebook Users
There are plenty of lists that mock certain “types” of posts on Facebook. You’ve surely read those posts from people who constantly talk about how much they love their significant other or that they just finished a crazy difficult exercise routine or ate the world’s tastiest burrito.
The website Funny Or Die satirizes the popular social medium’s users who post– among many things– about being terribly alone or unlovable.
http://www.funnyordie.com/lists/6706d22475/people-who-should-be-immediately-unfriended-on-facebook
I’m adding another type of poster: The Mysterious Illness I Won’t Explain.
It doesn’t seem possible, but it was one year ago today that we took off for [insert location here], so our [child]could have specialized surgery there. The surgery was a success and we were well taken care of in the [number] weeks we spent there thanks to our doctors and nurses and to the friends and family who lent their support. Feeling a lot of gratitude today.
