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Tag: Emotion

  • Essay

Personality Tests & The Zodiac – Not a Portrait, a Road Map

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019

Say if you’re a Gryffindor, it means you can be brave and bold, but sometimes we’re Neville Longbottom and need to rise to that occasion and grow into that.

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  • Essay

31 in Review, Onward and Upward to 32

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on December 7, 2018July 2, 2019

I make a point of marking my birthday with reviewing where I’ve come in the…

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  • Essay

What Everyone Gets

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on November 20, 2018

“But I did okay, didn’t I? I mean, I got, what, fifteen thousand years. That’s…

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  • Essay

If it Were Done

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on November 18, 2018November 19, 2018

We all confront our demons at different paces and in different ways, and we realize our progress in different ways also, but keep going.

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  • Essay

I’m Not That Excited for More Bojack – It’s Time to Evolve the Depiction of Depression in Media

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 13, 2018

If you’ve been here before, you’re aware that I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety. Naturally,…

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  • On Writing

My Roman Holiday, Writing Goals & Living Ghosts

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on August 9, 2018

If there’s anything that starts to weigh us down it’s the potential of things that might or could have been, but aren’t. I think those are the living ghosts we can be haunted by that keep us up at night no matter how good things are.

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  • Essay

Negative Space & Form in Art, Relationships

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

“One of the most profound bits of advice on relationships I’ve ever been given is: find someone that can you ‘be alone’ with”

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  • Essay

Cutting Down on Things – Goodbyes to Books, Movies, Friends

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on May 12, 2018

We don’t get to own the decision of who stays or goes the way we can put a book back on the shelf, but at least knowing and putting in the effort … that can make all the difference.

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  • Drawful

Drawful the Awful & The March/Employment Intermission Wrap Up

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

Drawful the Awful is out, I’ve started a new job, and what that all means as a turning of a new chapter to me.

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  • Essay

Optimist versus Pessimist or What a Literal Piece of Shit Taught Me About Myself

  • by Y. Balloo
  • Posted on March 20, 2018

A story from college on how a literal piece of poo caused me to realize that I’m an optimist.

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