When I first started working a “big girl job” five years ago, the ability to work remote was really at the hand of an individual organization and their preferred policy. In my time so far at two different companies, their preferences couldn’t be more opposite (One was pretty supportive, the other simply didn’t believe in… Continue reading How to find motivation [for anything] while stuck at home.
Author: Twenties Blogger
Trying to spread guidance, motivation and reassurance to the early twenties generation one blog post at a time
It’s okay to choose yourself even if you will disappoint other people.
Here’s what I think is the real issue with these adult “obligations”. We firmly believe there is always a right and a wrong choice.
you need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
You know that super cliche quote that goes “life begins at the end of our comfort zone”? Well, it may be VERY overused as desktop screen savers and dorm room wall art (about 92% positive I even had this canvas in my apartment for a whole year after graduation), but it’s also not entirely wrong… Continue reading you need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
what to do when you fall out of love with him, but still love his family.
Sometimes we fall in love with someone, and as that relationship progresses, we happen to fall in love with their family too. And when it's time to let that person go, we often delay that breakup because one impending goodbye just became two
stop searching for what’s next, and enjoy what is now.
Before you know it, all you will have left are memories of the "good old days", so let's try to capture the "good todays" while they are happening.
don’t run from your passions; chase them.
I ran away from my passions because I genuinely thought I was chasing something better. But what I wish I had known was that, in doing so, I was also running away from myself.
ending a relationship that no longer fulfills you doesn’t mean you failed.
So sometimes we just stay. Sometimes staying is easier than changing. Except staying doesn't make us happy, it makes us trapped.
social media lies to you, so don’t let it define you.
Plain and simple: social media makes it easy for us to lie. When everyone else’s lives seem perfect, we think we need to make our life look that way too.
nothing shakes your priorities and perspective like death will.
Bottom line: spend your time on this Earth wisely, and spend it with the people who matter most to you.
friends will come and go your whole life, until they stay.
I think the bottom line here in all of this is to not worry when friendships change, and definitely don’t hold on to a long-term friendship just because you feel like you have to, even though it’s not what it used to be.
