June 30, 2015 Friends and Peers
I’ve met several different people throughout my surprisingly short life. There have been loud ones, shy ones, loyal ones, honest ones, liars, cheaters, and just about every other type of person you could think of. However, very few of them…
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June 25, 2015 Friends and Peers
Trust is truly the foundation of friendship because a friendship simply cannot exist without trust. If you cannot trust someone, not only do you not know what he or she is going to do next, but you can’t be sure…
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June 24, 2015 Friends and Peers
What makes someone a good person? It’s tough to say because there are many types of people in the world, and no two people are exactly alike. There is not one set of characteristics that all “good” people have, and…
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June 17, 2015 Friends and Peers
We’d all like to think that the people we think are our friends actually care about us. We want to feel as if we’re important enough for at least one person to give up his or her time for us….
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May 27, 2015 Friends and Peers
Everyone wants to be a good friend; actually, we all probably want to be someone’s “best” friend. We want to be able to help our friends when they are depressed because it makes us feel better about ourselves as well…
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May 26, 2015 Friends and Peers
We all make mistakes. Even the best of us mess things up at some point in our lives, and sometimes this can hurt even the closest of our friends. When you do something that hurts one of your good friends,…
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May 26, 2015 Friends and Peers
People can be dishonest, disloyal, and selfish. They can put on a face to get what they want, no matter whom they have to hurt to get it. They are capable of deceiving people who, through the kindness of their…
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May 25, 2015 Friends and Peers
Always keep your promises. If you’re not sure that you can keep a promise when you’re about to pledge yourself to keep a secret or fulfill a task, then don’t make that promise in the first place. I always keep…
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When you’re with your friends, you want to act like yourself so that you can be comfortable around them without having to hide anything. Everyone wants to be him or herself because everyone wants to be honest; honesty is a…
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April 18, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
People stop caring about their appearance once they’ve reached a point in their lives in which they are comfortable with how they look; this is usually caused by some major victory that tells them that their appearance doesn’t matter anymore….
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March 29, 2015 Friends and Peers
I have made some pretty good friends on Facebook. Yes, I believe in getting to know someone in person before becoming attached to him or her, but the fact of the matter is that it is possible to form strong…
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January 25, 2015 Skin and Body
The key to making yourself happy with your body image is to work at it. Truly, no matter what you look like, no matter how skinny, tall, heavy, or short, you will be much happier with it once you have…
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January 25, 2015 Skin and Body
Being short is only a disability if you let it be one. People who aren’t quite as tall as they’d like to be can have slight disadvantages. For example, it is easier to reach things on a shelf if you…
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January 25, 2015 Skin and Body
We live in a world in which we are constantly judged by our appearance despite the ideal “judgment by merit.” People we pass by in a crowded city will size us up and immediately form an idea in their head…
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Though there is still a margin of about three and a half months until summer starts, why wait to plan your family’s vacation? From personal experience, I know that if you wait until June, or even May, to being booking…
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While working as a standardized test tutor in my hometown, I nearly became a prostitute. A girl’s father had found my advertisement in the newspaper, and he hired me to tutor “Jessica.” Jessica insisted on meeting me at Starbucks for…
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