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6 Feb
Why I tell My Secrets?
14 Mar
Why do I reveal so much of my personal secrets in a blog? I want to lead by example by being open and honest so I become more relatable and REAL. I believe blogging is a positive and very cathartic experience for me, allowing me to write my truth for anyone interested in living inside my head for a brief moment. Another important reason for me writing my thoughts and experiences is for the simple fact that people are going to talk and I want them to at least get the facts right.
Since starting my blog 4 years ago, I feel so much more at ease to share my personal struggles and traumatic experiences with not only my close friends, but people I haven’t known longer than a week. Once I write about my thoughts and hit publish, I feel such a release of toxic energy that no longer serves me. I also find it much easier to share my feelings with total strangers because I have no expectation of getting anything back, I don’t have the expectation of needing someone to hold the space for me to share.
I want to break the perception people may have for me without even knowing who I really am. I know being in certain social circles can build a reputation that is completely unfounded, I want people to know me at my core…because I am far from a spoiled princess 
Here’s to revealing our secrets so they can no longer have a hold on us. Share your story because no one else has it.
I’m 30, Now What?
7 Mar
Wow, I made it to 30! I tell my friends, it feels like I skidded into home-plate all covered in mud, soaking and exhausted. Life has been a hell of a game so far. I do know the meaning of “when life throws you a curve ball, you have to knock it out of the park…” I’ve had my share of curve balls alright.
My 20′s have been rough with some joy sprinkled in here and there. I started out my 20′s by getting pregnant and married by 21, getting through the loss of my older brother to suicide by 23, getting over my 2nd loss of my younger brother to suicide by 24, dealing with the breakdown of relationships with my older sisters and having my 2nd daughter by 27! It feels like I have already lived a lifetime. It’s not like I’ve had the easiest journey growing up in a family of 6 kids to a single mother who ended up sending me to foster care 2 weeks after my 13th birthday, but that’s a whole other chapter to be shared at a later date. So what have I learned so far?
From all the pain and heartache, the first lesson I’ve learned is you must, must, must hold onto your friendships. It is because of my amazing friends that I have even made it this far…with my sanity somewhat intact Seriously, friends are the ones who are there before the husband and kids, and they will remain there until the end. I consider my friends to be the family I’ve always craved and the relationships I’ve chosen to nurture. I only desire healthy, respectful, and genuine relationships now that I have acquired much wisdom. The second important, life-changing lesson I have learned is, it’s not about what has happened to you but more importantly, how you choose to respond to life’s hardships. It would’ve been all to easy for me to crawl into bed and not want to get up ever but I decided I was worth more than that. Despite all the bullshit, I believe I am destined for a greater purpose. If I can help 1 person get through even 1 of the things I have experienced, I will feel like I have made a difference. I desire to turn my shitty ass life experiences into something of value.
So here’s to being 30 and making this decade all about my own happiness and finding my passion for life again!
* My great girlfriends are pictured above, but I have other important people to thank too for my strength and support.
The reason I love writing and reading blogs. Facebook is a make-believe world of people trying to project a perfect life.
Charles J. Sykes, 11 Rules of Life
16 Jan
Charles J. Sykes wrote a powerful book about 50 things kid do not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Here is a top list of 11 rules of life.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes; learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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If you can read this – Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English – Thank a soldier!!
New Year to Live Authentically YOU!
6 Jan
Stop caring about what other people think of you and live your life for yourself!
Fantasha Kassam
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