Category: My Lessons
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You’re Allowed to Change Your Mind
There aren’t many things I’d stand on my soapbox and preach, but if there’s one thing I would scream at the top of my lungs, it’s this: YOU’RE ALLOWED TO CHANGE YOUR MIND.And I mean entirely—about anything, in any circumstance. If something no longer serves you or no longer gives you the feeling it once did, Read more
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“Embrace The Suck”
Someone once said to me, “Sometimes you just have to embrace the suck.” I remember the moment my ears first heard those words…he was hovering over me while I sat on the edge of my bed. He was trying to convince me why we should stay together, in his own odd way. And even though Read more
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I Helped Him Hurt Her
Earlier this year, I took part in an affair. I got involved with a boy that I knew had a long-distance girlfriend. I didn’t know her…I had never met her. That made it easy for me to think she wasn’t a real person, and I used that to cope with what I was doing. I Read more
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Who are you?
A couple of years ago, I went on a date where the man asked me, Who are you? I was twenty-three at the time, and he was a decade older. I didn’t know exactly what he was asking, so I said, “I’m Yuka Kawata, twenty-three years old, college graduate, and future doctor.” He smiled and said, Okay, but Read more
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The Patience I Don’t Have
I don’t get how parents do it. I don’t get how you can just let things go when your kid fucks up royally. I don’t get how you have to sit here after a huge argument and love them anyways. I don’t get how to talk to them without putting my feelings above theirs. They Read more
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Six Weeks from Breaking Down to Breaking Through
It took me six weeks… SIX WEEKS! Six out of the twelve weeks in my training for a half-marathon to feel good during my run. For the past six weeks, I’ve barely been able to finish any of my runs, sometimes only making it half a mile before calling it quits. I spent countless hours Read more