I’ve been to Italy twice in my life. Once right after I graduated high school and then again when I was a sophomore in college. The two experiences were drastically different, yet each shared a common theme: home. I love everything about that country. I love the rolling hills, the green landscape stretching for miles. [...]
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I’ve always been a planning kind of girl. I can enter just about any Monday with plans for at least 1 possibly 2 and more often than not 3 of the nights for the following week. I schedule my entire life, from the time I wake up and shower until the moment I go to [...]
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–noun 1. an earnest desire for some type of achievement ordistinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment. 2. the object, state, or result desired or sought after 3. desire for work or activity; energy –verb (used with object) 4. to seek after earnestly; aspire to. I often wonder what factors need to align for someone to be ambitious. What is it that gives some the desire and need to succeed, to rise above themselves and do more, while others are perfectly content to live their lives with no [...]
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Today we were sitting around chatting about the holidays and I asked my family members when they stopped believing in Santa. None seemed to remember. It struck me strange. For me the year that Santa stopped was such a crushing blow. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had snuck down the night before [...]
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There comes a point in every man’s life when he realizes that he can break, that someone can hurt him, that he is defenseless against life. For some this knowledge comes at a young age, for others it’s not until much later that they realize their fallibility. It’s at this point that a boy becomes [...]
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