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Losing My Identity

22 October 2013 / / Comments Off on Losing My Identity

I don’t lose things. I don’t leave my cell phone on store counters, I don’t misplace my keys, and I certainly don’t lose my driver license. But now it seemed to have happened.

It was annoying but eventually led to a glorious realization.

Fulltime traditional jobs weren’t coming to fruition, a vandal drizzled chocolate syrup on the windshield of my car, my cat Saffron found a little brown bat on the balcony and brought it into my bed as a plaything. Several rabies shots and mandatory emergency room visits later, I was looking at debt for the first time in my life because also for the first time in my life I lacked health insurance.
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Be Who You Are

21 September 2013 / / One comment

Why is it that we find ourselves doing and saying things around guys we like that we would never do or say around our best friends?

There is no reason for this.

Be who you are because there is only one of you. Being true to yourself is more important than having that certain someone like you.
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Something To Decide Early On

25 February 2013 / / 2 comments

“Saturday Night Fever” was a 1977 film starring a disco-dancing John Travolta. You know the one.

Back in the late 1990s, theater producers morphed the movie into a stage musical. I saw it when the show came through the town I lived in ten years ago.

In one scene during the show, protagonist Tony Manero (the Travolta character in the movie) asks Annette (the Donna Pescow character in the movie), “You a nice girl or a slut?”

She replies, “I dunno. Both.”

Tony tells her, “You can’t be both. You’re either a nice girl or a slut. That’s something a girl’s got to decide early on.”
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Myth Of The Real World: Search For Identity Part II

28 January 2013 / / One comment

I shared the story yesterday about how much I’m fascinated with the concept of identity.

In 2006, my communication studies student Johanna-Joy asked me to make a presentation to the undergraduate honor society for which she was an officer.

I ended up giving a presentation titled “The Myth of the Real World: Searching for Identity During and After College.” I debunked myths and perceptions of real world versus college world.

 

honor society event.

Here are the last five points I made to the students:

6. What you know and what you do not know— Many of my public speaking business students would complain that their ages of 19, 20, or 21 were causing managers to pass them by for promotions. “I know way more than her. Why wasn’t I promoted? It must be because of age discrimination.” Remember to look outside your tunnel. You might be passed over because you’ve been working someplace for just one month.
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Myth Of The Real World: Search For Identity Part I

21 January 2013 / / Comments Off on Myth Of The Real World: Search For Identity Part I

I’ve been fascinated with the concept of identity for most of my life.

When I was in my early teenage years, I saved quizzes from magazines that would ask the reader “What’s Your Decorating Style” or “Are You A Romantic.”

I’ve been into astrology since those years too, and studied the characteristics of my astrological sign trying to figure out the validity of the traits.

In 2006, one of my communication studies students asked me to make a presentation to the undergraduate honor society for which she was an officer.

When Johanna-Joy asked what job title to call me for that night’s event publicity, I really didn’t know.

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