We are often afraid of letting people get very close because they are likely to see parts of ourselves that we may not want to show. When we trust certain friends or a significant other enough, perhaps we can let them know the most intimate details of our lives. Still, there is the fear that if we

When life throws a curve ball at you, it is such a blessing to have someone or people around you who will be able to support you as you try to catch it. It might be a sudden devastating medical report, it could be the loss of a job, a car…or any scary or painful event. When you seem to be melting u

Sometimes we must deny ourselves of things that might feel good in the moment but we know would not end well. Self denial is a major aspect of a disciplined life. It takes discipline to hold the right position even when under pressure, but it seems to take even more discipline to give up on somethi

I am planning to visit Atlanta soon, and this planning has involved going through travel documents to make sure we would not be delayed at the airport or denied flying. So, planning has involved looking at passports, getting a real ID etc. I learned Atlanta can be notorious and even seen as a sin c

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Silence…it has almost become extinct in today’s world. I sit here in silence typing this, but my silence could be richer if I weren’t typing anything. This is because of the noise of the keyboard keys, the noise in my mind of what I want the reader to gain, and the noise about who my audience will

I enjoy playing chess with my siblings. The castling, bishop attacks, queen checks... it goes on and on. Connecting and bonding over chess is such a heartwarming and innocent thing to do with loved ones. But my siblings are not as good as I am, so I have often played by giving them an advantage. Mo

I've had the chance to work pretty closely with the finance department, and one thing I've seen during audit season is that you don't look at an account that's still being worked on and start making final conclusions about it. There are still entries being made, things being reconci

I have had the privilege of interviewing people for job positions. In the process, I am trying to know more about them and see if they would be a good fit for the position, if they will be a long term great asset to the company. It is a learning process for both parties as they are also judging if

Become debt free, Max-out 401k contributions and other retirement investment portfolios, spend the rest of my life sipping coconut juice at the beach and picking up sea shells, travelling the world…no, not really my plan. Some of the things I mentioned are good, but life is so much more than just t

You are never too far gone. #love #christian #faith

Even the lost soul can be found. Lost in the corrupt ways of this world, living for yourself...living for money. Even the lost soul can come home. It doesn't matter how deeply lost you have become. It doesn't matter how corrupt your heart is. It doesn't matter the level of bad stuff you

My phone no longer waits for me to check the news. It simply notifies me. Unsolicited pop-ups flood my screen, and worst of all, they come from multiple apps. From YouTube to Bing, these platforms constantly bombard me with reports of awful things happening in our world. Someone got shot here, some

Kids nowadays don’t seem to understand the concept of respect, and they are also being fed a toxic definition of respect. At the heart of showing respect is the love of the other. Love teaches us to treat the other with dignity and value. I see too many kids being disrespectful of people much older

That part of you, on the inside of you, maybe somewhere in the infrastructure of your soul, that makes you feel bad when you do something mean or stupid. This part of you is called your conscience. It is a system by which we are innately made aware of God’s laws even before we ever read about them

I have searched for many missing things over the years, and one of the most memorable ones is when my wallet went missing. Now, the wallet by itself is not what made it valuable, it was the content of the wallet. When it got missing, I had just taken out cash from the bank in the amount of about $3

That in-between, that space between a miracle and gloom/pain/disappointment. It is almost like you are forced into a desperate choice, because the in-between is only a temporary decision point. It is where you decide to either chase a miracle or accept a lifetime of failure. It is that kind of fail

You know that uncomfortable feeling you experience when you have been making a lot of payments or dealing with a lot of bills, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, something gets damaged. Something spoils, and then you know the implication: it means more spending. It could simply mean that something

I still recall the excitement of getting my first SEGA console; I was eager to experience the improved graphics that were such a leap forward from the Mario and Tank games on my Nintendo. That era, followed by the PlayStation and Xbox series, largely defined my childhood. Yet somewhere along the tr

Recently, prominent commencement speakers faced boos as they addressed the controversial topic of Artificial Intelligence. For new graduates, AI is a daunting subject; they are entering a labor market where technology could be rapidly displacing traditional roles, making it harder to find employmen