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Less Than the Best
This weekend I had my first curating project as an independent contractor. I was so nervous. My plans were detailed and specific. Organization is my best friend and keeps me settled. I will not accept anything less than the best. After the events, everyone acclaimed how great they were and how much fun they had! The photo optics were perfect. And do you know how I felt after? Unhappy with the end product. There were so many things that fell through the cracks. So many missed marks and details that really expand the experience. Ideas that didn’t hit the “wow factor” I would have liked them too. My debrief report,…
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A Week of Solidarity
This week is dedicated to solidarity with the people struggling against racism and discrimination. Racism and discrimination affect us all. Between the media, everyday trials, and our relation to those around us. It is no surprise that no matter how much the current president tries to deny the growing prevalence of white supremacy in the world, it is waging war all around us. No longer all these issues just in America. Muslims are the latest to be attacked in their place of peace or worship; like so many black churches around America with the same terroristic motivates. It’s devastating to think about. Discrimination is happening in all forms, and for…
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Appreciating the Defeat
I am so competitive that appreciating the defeat took me a long time to understand. I’ve been active in very competitive in sports all my life. In fact, if I don’t win first nothing else really matters– second place might as well be fourth. Recently, I completed in a beach volleyball tournament whit someone I had only competed one other time with. We got 2nd in this recent tournament, losing to a girl I had once coached who is beginning her college career next year playing this sport. I guess I should have been okay with losing to a younger stud who I helped develop, but I wasn’t. My partner…
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Talking Through Frustrations
Last night, I went on a tirade about frustrations that I didn’t even know I had. A casual conversation about “everyday” issues such as job promotions, politics, and family morphed into a soapbox speech on the outdated social constructs and inconsiderate personal probing. At one point, someone asked, “who set you off today?” And the answer was no one. There were so many individual little things bothering me, that I exploded at the sheer mention of common plights I would typically ignore. We internalize so many thing day to day that at some part we exploded without anticipating it. But for once I did not retreat back inside. I decided…
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Working Through the Growth
I’m back! Last week I didn’t do any blog posts, and I felt terrible about it at first. The whole purpose of this blog was to destigmatize mental health issues and promote a place of freedom and working through the growth. Mental health is not just the extreme cases of depression and suicidal thoughts we usually hear about. Mental health is a broad umbrella of all stressors. That includes anxiety, stress migraines, worry, mental fatigue, and all the other little small things that we convince ourselves to push through because it’s not that bad. The point that we forget is they’re only not bad if we take care of those…
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