When you are around people you admire or like, do you freeze up? When I'm invested in a person, it's like I get temporarily trapped in a giant block of ice. My words halt, I become way less expressive, and even my body gets stiff (so
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I'm kind of an emotionally heavy person. I mean, I'm also a light, bubbly, goofy, sunshiny gal who wants to pour hearts all over you while smiling and singing slightly off-key. But it's like every day that bright, cute girl gets dropped into the
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Life is really good and super hard at the same time. How weird is that? I've never had both at the same time. I'm going through something [https://www.madisontaskett.com/irl-gom-jabbar/] heavy and it's maybe the hardest thing I've ever done?
Yesterday, my first flight was delayed and there was about a 15% of me making that flight, so I changed to a later connection. My first flight came in earlier than expected! I hauled ass to that terminal, counting down the minutes till the boarding gates closed... watching the remaining
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> You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. That's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap and endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. ― Frank
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> I’d walk into a room and think, ‘Okay, how can I make sure everyone in this room loves me and is charmed by me?' And that takes a LOT of energy! -Anonymous I'm no stranger to burnout (I even made an app [https://donewithlife.carrd.
I deleted my day 15 post from last night. I didn't trust my motives for posting it, and I thought the subject matter was disrespectful. Something I'm doing more often is stopping and asking, "What is my purpose for doing X? What are my motives?
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I was talking to a friend today who is learning to set healthy boundaries, and he said something that hit home. > "People who accept me because of what I do for them will probably reject me when I become my genuine self. And that's scary."
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This year, didn't we all come up with costumes like an hour before going out, because fuck if any of us had the energy to do Halloween? I know I was like that. I grabbed a hot pink dress from my closet, painted on loud pink eyeliner and
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In the book, Storyworthy [https://www.amazon.com/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling/dp/1608685489] , the author says that every story revolves around a 5 second clip, where the main character learns something that changes him/her. If you don't have those 5 seconds where you learned or grew, you don'
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Tonight's post was too personal to publish. This happens often, and it's part of why I write daily. Every time I sit down here to write, I learn something new about myself!
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I solved the puzzle from yesterday [https://www.madisontaskett.com/simple-complicated/], where the challenge was to remove a gold ring from an elaborate trap. When I put all my energy and attention into solving the puzzle, I got nowhere. I was trying so hard and feeling like that one scene