I'm simultaneously maintaining the contradictory beliefs that:
1) the universe is governed by a series of immutable laws with no consciousness (no God), and
2) the universe is conspiring to teach me something during my time on Earth.
I'm intimately aware of the cognitive dissonance this requires. But I can't seem to pin down what I believe.
At the beginning of the new year, I declared that it would be very hard for 2013 to be worse than 2012.
in Finding a Purpose, Love, Spirituality
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I’ve spent the better part of the last few weeks trying to figure out what this blog is going to be about. I’m sure you don’t want to read about the minutiae of my every day life, and even if you do, well, I have boundaries. As fascinated as I’m sure you are by my [...]
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Have you ever made a to-do list based on the person you aspire to become? Do you ever do things or set goals for yourself because of what you *think* you should be doing rather than what you *actually* want to do? That’s how I feel about my goals list sometimes. Because I’m young and [...]
in Goals
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Sometimes, when I sit down to work, I feel completely overwhelmed. For me, procrastination isn’t so much a desire to be doing anything but working as it is a desire to do everything at the same time. Or sometimes, it’s the desire to be working on everything except what I *should* be doing. The problem, [...]
in Productivity
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I don’t want to think about tragedies any more than anyone else does, but last Monday, as we neared our first wedding anniversary, Hamid and I did some planning. I knew it was a good idea. What I didn’t know was how quickly I would be proven right. On Thursday, a very dear friend’s husband [...]
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