Merriam-Webster defines crush as follows: Crush: an intense but usually short-lived infatuation. The same word also means to overwhelm with confusion, chagrin, or humiliation, as by argumentation or a slighting action or remark; squelch. which could be taken to mean the opposite of the first definition. I’ve found myself feeling the effects of both definitions …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
I’m Posting Every Week in 2011
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011. I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, …
Zero-Sum Theory
“Misery loves company.” It’s a statement most people know, and almost everyone has experienced in one season in their lives or another. It seems inevitable that if someone feels that life is giving them lemons, they need to see to it that the juice gets squeezed into your eye. Unfortunately, it seems that then, that …
Priorities
I’m not totally sure where or when I first heard this story, but it’s meaning stuck with me for years after my initial exposure to it. It tells a tale of perspective and prioritization in an illustration that I’m hard-pressed to forget, and want to make sure as many people hear it as possible. A …