Category: Buzz

You are allowed to ignore phone calls and leave texts unanswered. You are allowed to keep your home address to yourself, because you don’t want them stopping by for a visit. You are allowed to avoid eye contact and turn the other way when you see them in public. You are allowed to tell them […]

I think we all have those moments where we take a serious look at our surroundings, examine the people in our lives and go ‘what the fuck is wrong with me? Seriously.” Those strange moments where we’re sure we are some sort of alien species barely resembling the other well adjusted humans around us because […]

It takes a special kind of person to be a teacher. It’s choosing a career based on a passion for wanting to make a difference in young lives. It’s a career that I think deserves more respect than it gets. Because it isn’t simply working a school day of 8:00-3:00 being a teacher isn’t a […]

There’s a picture of us sitting on my dresser. You’re laughing, your head thrown back, hair flying wild in the wind. I’m standing next to you, my arm slung across your shoulder, smiling at the camera, an oversized pair of sunglasses hiding my entire face. In that picture, everything was easy. We didn’t have dreams […]

Being faithful means more than keeping your hands to yourself. It means more than only sleeping with one person, only kissing one person, only being physically involved with one person. Being faithful means that you delete your Tinder and any other dating apps on your phone, because you don’t need it anymore. Because you don’t […]

Hey Brother Bear, I can pretty much see your face right now as you start to read this. Probably at your desk listening to the new Adele obviously. I think somewhere along the way I stopped telling you how much I look up to you in almost every single way. I bet it gets old […]

We all have that one friend who is seen as a ‘flake’—the one who agrees to plans, and then cancels on you, usually last minute, via text with some excuse that seems completely invalid. As a sufferer of a chronic illness and anxiety, I am very often that friend. The more invitations that I have […]

1. Arjuna Perkins 1. Humility. This is the decade of failure. And that’s ok – it’s probably the first time in your life you’ve had to contend with most of the things you’re taking on. Supporting yourself, managing your time / stress / relationships, figuring out what role you want work / study / spirituality / etc. […]

Anxiety sucks; plain and simple. It approaches you with a quick beating heart to the point where sometimes you may feel you are going into cardiac arrest. I hate that most of the times I get on a plane, I think I might die. When movie theater shootings were common, I couldn’t go with out […]

I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. And I’ve had it since third grade, without even realizing what was going on with me. I just remember worrying all the time and fretting about things that other kids my age didn’t even think about. My journey with this mental illness has been a bumpy road, to say the […]