Summary: You know what looks like a tough job? Disciplining a child. If you punish them for doing something wrong, they get mad and throw a fit. If you ask them to apologize, they either refuse or do it grudgingly, and you can tell that they aren't sorry. Sometimes you accidentally punish them when they … Continue reading What Goes Around, Comes Around (Genesis 49)
Summary: Do you ever experience a bittersweet resolution to some issue? After some tragedy or some fight or some miscommunication gone horribly wrong, the dust settles and you come to a place of acceptance and even growth. Yet at the same time, in the back of your mind, you know that everything would have been … Continue reading Thoughts and Prayers (Genesis 45)
Summary: You know how in movies, one character will have done something wrong, like cheat on a test or steal something important, and another character will take the fall for them? I feel like that almost never happens in real life. More often you'll see people doing just the opposite, like if you yell at … Continue reading It’s Not Fair (Genesis 44)
Summary: I don't fight with people often. This is not because I am such a good person that I get along with everyone but rather because I am a perfectionist. I don't like things to go wrong. I don't want to do anything that would leave me deserving of blame. I don't want to deal … Continue reading When The Dust Settles (Genesis 43)
Summary: As a Type A individual, I do my best to make sure things play out the way they should. I try to think ahead to what could go wrong and then make sure that it doesn't go wrong. I hate the idea of messing something up, or failing. More than that, I hate the … Continue reading Redirecting The Blame (Genesis 38)
Summary: When I was younger and in elementary school, I used to get through my English and grammar homework by the skin of my teeth. I didn't study all that hard or memorize things - in order to write grammatically correct sentences, I pretty much went with the strategy of writing down what "sounded right". … Continue reading “Listen To Your Heart” (Genesis 37)
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