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To My Mom, My Mother-in-Law, and My Simo
I am but a child doing his best in this world, navigating the unknown, trekking through life’s hardships, and finding joy in its small moments of happiness. I am where I am because of all of you. We may not always agree. We may not always speak. We may never say everything that’s in our… Continue reading
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Complacency
I was complacent with the beauty of the moment. I had built a life I believed would last forever. I thought all it needed was for me to remain the same. I grew complacent in a life that was never truly mine. When I turned thirty, the world I had become comfortable in came crashing… Continue reading
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Cross Roads
I’m at a crossroads in my life. At 21, all I wanted was a family.A home. Children. Something to belong to. I spent my 20s chasing that vision with everything I had. I stepped into roles I wasn’t ready for—caring for a teenager who grew into a strong young woman, and a newborn who is… Continue reading
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When Love Demands Discipline
The hardest part about accountability is admitting the faults that were my own. There was a time where accountability felt optional. Maybe to all of us, at some point, it’s just a word we don’t fully understand. But when my life became more than just mine, when I learned to love and care, I understood… Continue reading
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An Hour and a Half Away
People don’t lack opportunity.They lack meaning. Opportunity exists endlessly around us. The beauty of opportunity is that it can always be created — even from nothing. In 2012, I had just graduated college and was still working at McDonald’s. The frustration of being nowhere, being no one, having no destination hit me in ways that… Continue reading
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Without Purpose
What are we without purpose? For centuries, the purpose of men was rooted in war and in family.We were given roles — to fight for our country, to protect, to provide. We watched soldiers return home from war, only for depression to set in.Their purpose was gone. For the last 10–12 years, my purpose was… Continue reading
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Unspoken
I am the culmination of everything left unsaid,past, present, and the shape of what is coming. Uncertainty lives quietlyamong all that pretends to be certain. I understand nowI walk this life in silence,because only I can hearthe truth circling inside my restless thoughts. I want to scream.I want to shout.But who would truly listen? So… Continue reading
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The Cost of Peace
Part of chasing a dream is realizing that nightmares are also dreams.We tend to forget that nightmares are very much a possibility in the realm of dreaming. Dreaming of a better life. Dreaming of more. Dreaming of peace. Yet when a nightmare appears, all of these dreams become disrupted—sometimes even discarded. I, too, am a… Continue reading
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No Place Left to Hide
I used to wonder if anything I did would ever amount to anything before a world war started. That was how extreme my thinking became. So I disconnected. And when I did, I was left with a problem I wasn’t sure I was ready to face. I had my own insecurities—ones I couldn’t blame on… Continue reading
About Me
I’m no one more special than any of you reading this. I work as a custodian during the evenings but every other time of the day I spend chasing a dream I’ve had since I was 16.
I have always believed there to be more to this life and I hope with this blog, my stories and journey in life, that I can share my experiences with all of you.
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