“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question every kid is asked. I went through phases. I wanted to be an oceanographer. Then a lawyer. Then the president. Then a doctor. I think it’s a silly question to ask a child. Kids should be kids. They shouldn’t have to pick […]
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Well hello there. My name is Brittany. In case you’ve forgotten. It’s been almost a year since I’ve written anything. “Why?” you might ask? Why indeed. A lot of it has to do with fear. Something I’m a little bit ashamed to say. Here I am preaching vulnerability, yet now I confess my fear of […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” “A very confused, very juvenile moment of awkward backings and bum pings followed, and everyone found himself talking to the person he least desired to.” “We must leave this terrifying place tomorrow and go searching for sunshine.” Click To Tweet “He waited for the […]
Mitch Albom
“Okay. The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He’s enjoying the wind and the fresh air–until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore. ‘My God, this is terrible,’ the wave says. ‘Look what’s going to happen to me!’ Then […]
Ayn Rand
“Why is it so important–what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right–so long as it’s not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere matter of arithmetic–and only […]