“The mind is its own place. And in it can make heaven a hell, hell a heaven.” That’s one of my favorite quotes. Another would be the quote from The Matrix where Agent Smith says to Neo “I must get free. In your mind is the key.” The human mind, when harnessed to its fullest […]
“I don’t keep count. Only when it begins to hurt do I start, because those are the ones that really count.” Wake up, Plaat. At this moment, life feels as if I’ve walked into an empty room and realize many of the doors and halls I’ve taken up to this point have not been the […]
I was reading through the news today and caught a story about a recent shark attack in Australia; a 15ft. great white shark attacked and killed a 21 year-old surfer, ripping him in half. Only his upper body was found, with the lower half of his body assumed to have been eaten or discarded by […]
I’ve met a lot of people in my life who have felt somehow entitled to their dreams and ambitious because they decided to dream them. Others have felt entitled to their happiness and deserving of the ability to pursue this happiness without consequence, simply because it made them happy. An example of this would be […]
Excellence cannot come easily, nor without cost. Life, my friend, is not easy. If you haven’t discovered that yet, you are in for a very harsh realization. From crying excuses to protesters on Wall Street, we are in the midst of a time that is beginning to create social separation. No, it is not separation […]
I’m staring at a face that refuses to give eyes of affirmation or acceptance. Seeing past every surface level feature and element that often confuse or bewilder others, these eyes cut right through to the empty core of a self existence. Harsh. Cold. Condemning. Those eyes. They scream at me, telling me I am shirking […]
Manhood has become just as novel an ideas as cowboys are to the west. Somewhere along the line of our life, we have forgotten the fact that being a man of true character is not a mythical idea, but a reality that desperately longs to be stirred from its deep societal slumber. It’s asking, begging […]
“I knew I was a man when my father told me I was one” Unfortunately, many of us never have the opportuntiy to have a father who has the type of insight to let his children know they’ve passed the stages of childhood and are becoming young men. However, there are select few who understand […]
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When I was in middle school, I remember being exposed to several things for the first time that I had previously been kept away from. One of these things was R-rated movies, the other was secular music. Come to think of it, I can’t quite disagree with the conservative mentality my parents had in raising […]