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10 Thoughts You Have While Visiting Home For Summer

After a long semester away, the thought of returning home is the only thing that gets you through finals. You daydream about visiting your old stomping grounds, reconnecting with your high school friends, and being doted on by your parents. When you first arrive, it’s amazing. It doesn’t take long for you to learn that home may be the same, but you’ve certainly changed. Here are 10 common thoughts people have when they visit their hometown: 10. It hasn’t changed at all. The buildings look older and there are more strangers than the last time you were here, but the vibe is the same.

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The Sad Reality Of Growing Up – Why You Need To Focus On Just Yourself

2Some of you may take this as a reality check, some of you may relate to this , and some of you may be offended, but quite frankly, I really don’t care. The main point of this article is for you to understand that you’re doing just fine, and to not focus on the people that don’t care about you, or bring you down. It’s time that you stop stalking random people on Instagram and get jealous because of how many “followers” or “likes” they have on their pictures. It’s time to stop looking at people’s stories on Snapchat and get pissed off when you see people having the time of their lives, laying on a beach somewhere in Mexico. It’s time to put everything aside, and focus on YOU.   There is a fact of life that some people don’t realize, and it’s the fact that many people don’t

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Rick & Morty’s Guide to Growing Up

Rick & Morty is quite possibly one of the most underrated and introspective shows on television right now. Each episode is filled with life lessons, cleverly disguised as raunchy humor. If you have never seen an episode, don’t click exit just yet, no prior knowledge of the show is needed for the lessons it teaches to really hit home. For this article I have decided to divide the path we take when growing into three intimately connected categories: growth, purpose, and the grand scheme of things (although, clearly, life is too complex to be condensed into just three categories.) So without further ado, here is Rick & Morty’s Guide to Growing Up. Growth Growing up can be a challenging and often confusing process for anybody, and if it isn’t, you probably aren’t doing it just yet. As you cross from teenager to young adult you take on new responsibilities such

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14 Times Inside Out Perfectly Summed Up Growing Up

When we hear the phrase “growing up”, we immediately think of the terror that comes with it: growing older. No one likes it and the idealization of never growing up thanks to our good friend Peter Pan has always been desirable to us. But growing up is necessary not only for us to become adults, but to truly begin to live our lives to the most potential. We can’t succeed and become independent without sorting out a bunch of complicated situations thrown our way. No one said it was easy, but no one also said all of that messiness wouldn’t worth all the while. It’s not about the destination after all, but the journey in how we get there; how our paths are paved in the stories we are trying to tell. And Inside Out reminds us of just that. Things like moving to a new city and relationships changing

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20 Incredibly Difficult Lessons We All Learn In College

College is a time of great learning, and I’m not strictly talking about the stuff your professors teach you in class.  When you’re a bright-eyed youth of 18, you think you know everything, but the fact is, nobody knows everything at 18.  In fact, most people of that age know very little.  That’s why, in addition to all the important theory and history you’re learning in class, you’re also going to learn a number of lessons that have nothing to do with academia.  Some will be more difficult than others, but all of them are necessary and help you on your journey towards becoming a functioning adult. 20. Feeling lonely doesn’t necessarily mean you’re alone. There will be times in college when you’re surrounded by people, but you still feel inexplicably alone.  It’s hard to explain why that happens, but you should rest assured that it’s totally normal.  You have