Tag: cynicism

When Criticism becomes Cynicism

From Maria Popova's commencement speech for the 2016 graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication ...But here’s the thing about self-comparison: In addition to making you vacate your own experience, your own soul, your own life, in its extreme it breeds resignation. If we constantly feel that there is something more to... Continue Reading →

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Maybe It’s Okay…?

I live a schizophrenic life... As I try to become a "better" person through Law of Attraction books, meditation (just started so have yet to feel the impact), and other such positivity experiments, I'm pulled back to realism and cynicism by my significant other who blatantly rejects the idea of positive thinking. Then I scan... Continue Reading →

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