What does it feel like to donate a kidney to someone you love? For me the entire experience boils down to one word: magic. It’s taken a long time to write about this experience. 12 years have passed, to be exact. The attention I inevitably receive when telling people about it always felt wrong. People […]
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7 Incorrect #ADULTING Myths That You Need To Unlearn
Ah, Adulting. The new verb that has become somewhat of a joke when we fall short. These days there are many preconceived notions of what true adulting looks like. At 33 years old, I am fast approaching a turning point in life whereby I will have lived more years as an adult than a child. I’m […]
Purpose Comes From Happiness
There’s a lot out there about how to find your true purpose in life. People make careers through speaking engagements, books, podcasts, and any other medium imaginable. It’s big business because our world has become so complex and busy that too many people don’t feel as though they are on their true path in life. Depression can […]
8 Life Lessons Learned From Surfing
People who don’t surf will often look at a surfer’s lifestyle and scratch their heads. The idea of devoting one’s life to finding (and riding) that fabled perfect wave seems a bit juvenille (if not completely obsessive) to some. It’s no secret that surfers march to a different drum, with salt-bleached hair, a perma-grin from endless […]