It’s December! I can’t believe that 2019 is almost done when I feel like it just has started. It’s almost like I need to go back to the beginning of the year and try again but this time more slowly. With Christmas happening this month, I like to try to make the theme a bit more Christmassy. That is why I am talking about peace this month. One thing I love about peace is that it encompasses many different topics that we have covered before. For example, it includes gratitude which we covered last November when I interviewed Carolyn about her gratitude. It is amazing that she has been through…
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A Muslim’s Perspective on Faith
Usually what I do in my blog is I talk a bit about different topics that I find interesting that relate to people and in the third week I do an interview with another person about what they think about the topic. This month is different. Because it is my birthday month, I decided about six months ago that I wanted to chose a topic that I was really fascinated about and hopefully people would enjoy it as well. I then choose faith. But after I choose the topic of faith, my mind kept spinning on how I would write that month and what I could do to make it…
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Why I Don’t Call Myself Depressed Anymore
Links in this post are not apart of the affiliate program but are links to more information if you would like to research the topic further. I am not getting paid to put these links in, they are just for your benefit. Depression is hard. I am pretty sure I said that last week but it is true. Depression is something that affects many people differently and can be difficult to deal with. For one person with severe depression, it could be hard to eat, get out of bed, and even live life normally. For someone who has mild depression it could be easier. But even easier is still hard.…
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What Is Love?
What is love? The first thing to come to your mind may be a popular song that was made in the ’90s, but its a topic that has been debated. Some may think that it is just some form of attraction, attachment, or passion. For most of my life, I didn’t know what love was. I knew that I loved my parents, my sisters, and my friends, but besides that, I couldn’t have told you what love was except defining it as “a feeling”. There are so many movies out there that just made me even more confused. I would see many couples fight, not communicate, or just run away…
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4 Things I Learned Last Year
It has crossed my mind many times just how much each topic I have written about in the past five months have related to each other. As I considered this, I often wondered if connecting the topics together would result in a bigger learning opportunity and teach me more about each topic. For those who don’t know, so far we have talked about courage, creativity, gratitude, hope, and finally change. At first, when I was looking at each of the topics I was going to write about it didn’t seem as though any of these would cross over into the other categories. But as I started writing each topic, I…
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Have Hope Like a Dreamer
I am a dreamer. Everyday I wake up and I start to daydream about life and where I am headed, only to be pulled back by reality and realize that some of those things may not happen. “I want to be an adventurer,” I say. I want to climb up a mountain, fight a bear, and come out of the fight unscathed. Or I want to be on Broadway and have an audience cheer me on. I could even be pirate fighting with swords and swinging on a rope to another boat and take their treasure, and be known as the best woman pirate ever. These are great and…
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Now You Can Have Hope
December is a time of love, peace, and joy. Sometimes we get to see the small flakes of snow that gently covers the ground, sometimes the only part of December we see is the one that comes through holidays. For me, December is a time that I get to be done with school, spend time with my family, and to look forward to what’s to come. Sometimes, I decide to look back on my life. When I look back I seem to always see certain points. Points in my life that really changed me. I sometimes lose hope in the process. Losing hope is almost like losing the last piece…
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The Secret of Gratitude
I don’t remember much of when I was little. I’ll remember things here and there, but I never know where they belong. Sometimes I wonder about some of the things I forgot. Did I ever have a moment when I had a talk with my sisters and we bonded over that? It’s almost like life takes over and suddenly you are stuck wondering what you may have missed. What happiness did you forget? I seem to remember the bad things. I remember a friend who never liked me, a teacher who seemed out to get me, and times when I wondered if I would ever get anywhere in life. The…