Humanity
Get out of the Attic and into the Basement
Conversations should leave the listeners with a nice relaxed feeling and a confidence they have gotten something good out their time with us. A few days ago, I had a conversation with a man that left me with a vague idea what we talked about. His voice was tight and on the high end of the tones. I had a hard time focusing on what he said and I remember feeling tired after we parted ways. He was definitely in the attic during out conversation. What I mean by that is, his tone of voice was particularly high. In phone sales and appointment setting, we have all experienced this and knew when it happens even if you don't think you have.
By Laura Miller 5 years ago in Confessions
Ghost or Ghoul?
I know you heard of the term zombie and ghost used to describe people as non-existent, I am neither one. I am a ghoul! I know that sounds different, but ghouls usually are coherent and are aware of everything around them. The thing that usually makes them stick out is there skin, usually they don't age or show change. I am one of those people especially not aging, I am twenty-seven looking like I just turned twenty-one.
By Darius Cherry5 years ago in Confessions
Ceilings
Her eyes shot open. Finding herself once again staring at a familiar yet foreign ceiling. Shit had been like this for a little over a year now, one place after another. Ceiling after ceiling. She didn’t care about the ‘where’, she certainly didn’t care about the “reputation” she was cultivating; slut, whore, bitch... unimaginative words. Thought up by dullards. People who regularly spewed those epitaphs were just as bad, or jealous.
By E. Pualani Nekoba5 years ago in Confessions
Sit Down
I was brainwashed into thinking that I had no power. My inner strength was so weak that Theresa almost died. No human being on earth should ever have to go through life brainwashed because some ass whole decided it was your turn to die. I don’t mean dye in the sense that you have no more life in you. I mean to die in the sense of verbal, mental, and emotional death, and this doesn’t limit actual physical end either. Physical death is the last step, but while I am still on this earth, I will always speak the truth about my reality no matter how much resistance I get. Some people will probably be pissed off at me for saying these things, but it needs to be said for various reasons.
By Theresa Evans5 years ago in Confessions
Confident
Become so confident in who you are that no one’s opinion, rejection, or behavior can rock you. (8-Images. Blogspot) I never thought that I would be the one to say these things over myself because of all the sadness in the world today. I have to make sure that every day I wake up with the sole purpose of becoming more confident than I was a day ago. I do care about other’s opinions if they are in my inner circle, so when my inner circle starts to give me rejections about a decision that I am about to make that could hurt me, I pause to hear them out. Even if my inner circle starts behaving differently than I am used to with them, that doesn’t mean that it is terrible. All that tells me is that I need to refocus my intentions on what I am trying to do because my inner circle is the ones that are going to make sure that they hold me accountable for reaching the goals that I have set for myself.
By Theresa Evans5 years ago in Confessions
Survivors and Victims
"Everyone has their own way to define things. Some definitions come from different sources, such as the bible, or a dictionary. There are some words that people dumb-down to make it simpler for those who are considered not as smart. There are many words that the meaning has been changed over the years to suit the world today. There are a few words that have multiple meanings. But there are two that hold should hold a special place, but are often overlooked. Survivor. Victim. It seems simply impossible to define survivor without victim.
By Elizabeth Karns-Waters5 years ago in Confessions
Confession: I am an apocaloptimist
Confession: I am an apocaloptimst. I saw a post on Facebook using this brand new word and I thought oh yes, that perfectly describes me. I watch all manner of zombie & world-coming-to-an-end movies. Why? Because I love to see how script writers remake communities and societies in the face of devastating circumstances. I’ve always been fascinated by ways to redesign the world to be ever more awesome. In fact, I call myself a future innovator (betcha never heard that one before!).
By Soleira Green5 years ago in Confessions
Stephen King Is NOT A Great Writer
Stephen King, the first writer most people think of, isn't all that grand if you really think about it. Don't get me wrong, he has more than earned the honorific of "Master of Horror", lord knows his books have given me plenty of nightmares.
By Mae McCreery5 years ago in Confessions
The Death of Storytelling
The storyteller has become so important nowadays that the story itself is irrelevant. I always knew Ernest Hemingway was a misogynistic great white hunter and philanderer who liked whiskey and smoking, and many of his books had a misogynistic great white hunter in it, busily smoking and guzzling whiskey on his way to philander. But Hemingway managed to make his stories about something larger. I never knew which of the kids in Stephen King’s IT was Stephen King himself, but it didn’t matter. His stories were so good and so varied they seemed to have been written by a gaggle of writers instead of just one man. John Irving was in fact a prep school rich kid like John Wheelwright, but A Prayer for Owen Meany is still one of the best books ever. Toni Morrison was a black woman for sure, but she was neither Sethe nor Denver in Beloved.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in Confessions
