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Everyday Stories, Lived

Relationships

  • Profit > empathy (a rant)

    With restrictions lifted up that you won’t think about what a nightmare the past two years have been, businesses have ramped up their services too. But unfortunately, while others see this as an opportunity to recover the sales the pandemic has robbed them of, others that offer services (like amusement parks) have milked their cows Read more


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  • When your beloved cries

    When you see your beloved hurting, you feel the hurt too. Every tear shed is like tiny pin pricks going beneath your skin, pain burning in your insides. That’s why when they do cry, you shy away because the hurt just gets into you. It would have been much better if you were only in Read more


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  • Going home from home

    I’ve known a man who said he doesn’t believe in owning a house. That he’s okay with renting a place for years and years, but he can leave whenever he wants — no commitment. But now that it was time to leave, to move on to a new place after years and years of building Read more


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  • The support people

    If you are working with a group of people, you’d surely never miss the support people. They are the dependable ones, and they get the job done. They are actually capable of leading others like you do. But at the same time, they also enjoy working on the sidelines, supporting you. And you become your Read more


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  • Circles

    There are values we uphold. Hence, when others don’t keep the same behavioral standards we do, we shy away from them. We don’t hate them; no, we don’t. We simply make ourselves scarce around them because they are not the kind of people we linger around with. On occasions when we should be mingling with Read more


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  • Mood

    Mood changes. There are days when we get a bad day, don’t we? And there are reasons. Reasons that we can’t articulate at the moment. So don’t hate people just because their mood changes. Read more


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  • Early risers

    When you know why you have to wake up early and where you are going, it’s easier to convince yourself to get out of bed and be in motion. And once you are set in motion, you find it easier to continue moving. Because when you get up early in the morning, you experience the Read more


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