life experiences

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Aparna Sen @Dreamerby (10111) • Calcutta, India 13 Jun

The world is but a menagerie. I've often encountered people quick to criticize others despite their own imperfections. When confronted with the reality that nobody is perfect, including themselves, they become...

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mylotters

life experiences

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Have You Lived in More Than One State or Country?

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 21 Feb 25

Some of us have lived in only one state or country, the one where we grew up in raised by our parents. Others have lived in more than one place, or just like the Johnny Cash song, I've lived everywhere man. I have lived the...

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opinion

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Who are you? Are you just living as a past imaged reflection of yourself?

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 22 Jul 20

The mirror of learning doesn't exist; only real learning is real. I have heard the idea that we are mostly just our past, living in our present, as us. [b]Our past thoughts, feelings, and actions have made us who we are...

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If you could go back

Linda Mansfield (Snowdrop) @sprite1950 (30461) • Corsham, England 28 Sep 17

Sometimes I will dwell on mistakes I have made in my life and wonder how things would have turned out if I had made different choices. I think many of us have made mistakes but if you could go back to a time in your life to...

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Is our true self also growing itself along with us as we grow?

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 19 Sep 17

I have just read an email to me from a New Age guru who told me this: "Nothing can be added to who you really are . . . Your True Self." "Everything added or thought to be added is baggage, held in your mind as programmed...

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Revelation of the Day

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 19 Sep 17

I had a very personal revelation yesterday. Honestly, I am surprised it took me so long to figure this out. My husband has no patience with vacuuming. Yesterday when he was cleaning up some of the work he was doing on the bedroom...

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Advice for the Younger Self

Curlann @annierose (21977) • United States 19 Jul 16

I am now on my 30's and I see myself in thriving thirties. I am no longer the self-centered and weak girl as I was before. I am still a shy person but I have been trying hard to overcome it and my travels certainly help me to get...

learned lessons in life

advice

life experiences

golden rules

privilege of being alive

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Learning Experiences and More

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 15 Jul 16

Life. Life can generate the unexpected and the uncertainties. Life with challenges and lessons. We're continuously learning and sometimes we'll receive some hard lessons. Those situations that are filled with so many traumatic...

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the unexpected

lessons

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Embrace the Right Opportunities

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 30 Jun 16

When an opportunity presents itself. Take the opportunity with gladness. Opportunities don't come everyday. Sometimes they'll arrive at the most unexpected times and other times. The opportunities are built. We shouldn't every...

opportunities

life experiences

movement

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Sometimes we Just Have to Take a Chance

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 15 May 16

Fear will hold us back. We have to remove the fear and just let go. Our lives wil surely pass us by if we don't make some sort of move. We never know when an opportunity will arise and we have to be ready to go through the door....

taking risks

opportunities

life experiences

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Do You Keep A Journal?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 17 Dec 15

I have about 50 of them. I have kept track of a lot of my life in journals. It's always fun to go back and read about my various adventures and news items from the past 60 years. I think keeping a journal is important. It...

keeping a journal

life experiences

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if you worked with someone who was constantly knocking you down and..

littlefranciscan @littlefranciscan (18327) • United States 12 Apr 13

if you worked with someone who was constantly knocking you down..what you do..Would you just let them keep on ..or would you say something..what would you do. Have you ever had it happen? I have had it happen.. that someone...

coping skills

life experiences

personality types

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Do you think twice before reacting to a situation?

besweet @besweet (9831) • Ireland 2 Sep 12

Sometimes we have to face difficult situations in life and we all have different reactions. I am one of the people that think a lot before my final decision. I keep my first thoughts for a while and then I try to think from...

life experiences

overthinking

think twice

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Suicidal feelings...

Opalina143 @opalina143 (1240) • Morristown, New Jersey 15 Apr 12

have you ever felt tempted to take your own life when you were depressed or when there was a great loss in your life? If so, how did you cope with those feelings? If someone was struggling with thoughts of wanting to commit...

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"That's how I roll." -Life

frontvisions101 @frontvisions101 (16043) • Philippines 20 Dec 11

Surely, you'll agree that in every positive experiences, we encounter negative ones as compensation for them. That's how the Wheel of Life (as I would love to call it) really is. Have you noticed that during the times we...

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Would you AGREE?

juliegalano @juliegalano (71) • Philippines 3 Dec 11

Some people say that young women are usually 2-3 years more mature than young men. I agree, basis of which is my younger brother and my cousin of same age 17. My brother is still used to playing some childish games with our...

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"Numb" An original poem by nightarchangel.

nightarchangel @nightarchangel (40) • Philippines 29 Jul 11

It has been ages since I posted poems, now I'm inspired again and I'd like to share this work which just appeared in my mind as I type. Hope you all appreciate. Early mornings looked no brighter day When happiness just had to...

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Free Schooling... Isn't that ILLEGAL?

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 27 Mar 10

i watched a documentary on discovery health about extreme parenting and it showed several examples of alternative parenting such as gender neutral and attachment parenting etc but what disturbed me deeply was a new movement of...

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Think of the Good Times

Jess @JJ4Ever (4693) • United States 25 Feb 10

Do you have a situation where a person you know and love or a particular situation is worse now than in the past? Do you focus on the good times in the past with that person or circumstance or are you only able to see the "here...

The angry young man

fireice247 @fireice247 (140) • Slovak Republic 15 Feb 10

Have every came across a person who seems to be angry all the time?A person who thinks everything is useless.The smallest things make them angry,never seen smiling or having a good time. Well i have met such people a lot. But...

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