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Things I'm Leaving in 2017

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Dear Visitor, HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's now 2018 and it's time to hit that reset button and start over! I love the first week of New Years because I like to take my time trying to figure out what I want to do differently this year. There are probably a billion habits that I need to break and there are a couple of things that I've decided to leave back in 2017 and I wonder if I'm the only one.  1) The Phrase "I FEEL". Has anyone else realized that we used the phrase "I FEEL" when trying to make a point. I have been guilty of this too. Feelings aren't a good argument for anything and they don't encourage others to listen to what you have to say. So instead, I'm going to use the phrase "I THINK". By using "I THINK", I'm forced to into using critical thinking and facts that are backed up by research instead of the typical childish "But muh feels!!"  2) The Phrase "TRIGGERED". I...

Goodbye, 2017

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Dear Visitors, I'm ready for this year to be over. I'm ready to start anew. When the year 2017 started, everyone thought the whole world would implode. But here we are at the end of December and we're still standing.  I'm also ready to start the year over because I'm ready to let go of all the shit that happened at the beginning of 2017. The beginning of this year sucked mostly because my best friend of 12+ years and I went our separate ways because of a stupid election. It really hurt to see that sometimes people allow politics interfere with their relationships. Besides the loss of a beautiful friendship, the beginning of the year held a lot of uncertainty. I applied for Graduate School, but still had this fear that I might be wasting my time and that I wouldn't identify with my peers or that I would totally be terrible at my internship placement. It wasn't until I started the Fall Semester that my fears turned to ash. I ended up...