One Year Later: A Rude Awakening to a Better Me

18/09/10

      See this pic. Yeah, that's me about year ago. The aftermath to having asked my uncle to take me to the barber to cut my 3yrs- and-3mth-old Sisterlocks off. I wont even tell you how much they cost, but compared to other bloggers, I paid SIGNIFICANTLY less and I only had to sit for 11hrs (Technically 12hrs, 'cause my loctician did take a break). I was getting so frustrated with having them, so along with my feelings of relief of freeing my hair from the bondage of locs, I also felt like a total idiot because I had just spent good money ordering the Nappyloc tool - that I only used once. Argh!!!

Burnout: The Importance of Volunteering and Life Balance

The greater good. I am a person who believes in self-sacrifice for the greater - not in the most dogmatic way, but where it can be done. It's a core reason why I am now vegetarian, and a blossoming social activist. I have a strong desire to see some positive change in this world, hopefully in my lifetime, and a part of me feels that I can with just having that virtue and being around people. A smile, a hug, words of gratitude, gift-giving, sharing, supporting, honoring the best of us - all those things are priceless, and we can practice each day of our lives.

Summer of 2011: A Season of Personal Change

    What does it mean to be yourself? Though the answers to this important question are many they all carry the same underlying premise: being yourself involves accepting yourself. For 16 years - and counting- I've had so much trouble accepting myself. For years, I pressured myself for perfection and punished myself whenever I didn't succeed - which, unfortunately, was often. For over 16 years I was my own worst enemy, not my own best friend.

Environmental Vegetarianism

 I was raised on eating meat. Even when I was small I wasn't so naive to not think my burgers did not come from a cow, I was only ignorant to never questioning if killing animals was right or wrong. Which for many don't seem to mind because of the texture and protein derived from it, and from the time you are very small you learn about "the circle of life" and dinosaurs. But for me, that was the biggest conundrum: I always felt T-Rex dinosaurs were always in the wrong in feeding off of herbivorous animals, yet that same sentiment did not extend to the "normal" diet of humans beings.