Secrets
My boss is a peace of shit
Do you ever just try so hard, and it’s never good enough ? This is that story. My boss seems to lack personal understanding, but I mean I guess all bosses do, maybe? They are usually power hungry people with nothing better to do but to make someone feel worthless. How can I blame them anyway ? They lack some sort of intelligence, or their ego has grown immensely since they don’t know any better. Either way we can all agree it’s wrong, right ? Or am I crazy ?
By Queen anonymous 3 years ago in Confessions
Some More Thoughts On My Writing Difficulties
Introduction Although I publish a lot on Vocal I do have difficulties in writing, and this generates a lot of anxiety in me. I am lucky enough to be able to pull ideas and subjects almost out of the ether, to actually create a Vocal story, while I never seem to hit a writer's block I do seem to continually have the anxiety that goes with that.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Confessions
The Truth of Consequences
Oh, dear. Oh, dear… This is a true story, and one of those holidays that still crushes me. It was a typical Canadian Thanksgiving, meaning that it was celebrated by immigrants and took place earlier in the year than the one celebrated by our neighbours to the south. With my family, it was West Indian fare mixed in with turkey, pasta, salads, cakes and all the dishes that friends and family could bring over in the growing autumn cold. My mother was in charge of the kitchen, leading the other housewives and cousins and aunts and other female relatives whom I knew since I was a child. My father, as was common with the men in our families, had sports as a distraction on television (football and maybe hockey), or played dominoes on foldable wood and metal chairs and tables. Kids, if we were smart, had commandeered a television that was available in the basement and had our VCR ready to go with a choice of videos brought over or recently borrowed for the day (yes, the 1980s were a very different time). I would sometimes join them, but I was becoming a teenager. Most of the kids there were too young for me to play with, and the one who were older were not there (other friends and other events took over their lives). I was on my own. And I did not mind. I did not want to watch another comedy whose ending I could predict from the opening credits…or tape cover. I did not follow football or hockey (with the latter, I waited only for the playoffs), and with the kitchen, it was a no-go zone until I was called down to deliver grace and then eat. That would mean me, my room, and my guitar.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Confessions
Silence
There is a peace at sunrise that surpasses all understanding. It's a renewal. A feeling that anything is possible. I’d like to say I drag myself from the comfort of my bed every day to enjoy sunrise splendor, but you wouldn’t believe me and I would be lying. What is true is I was there that day and so was she.
By @_SINGH__RAHUL3 years ago in Confessions
An Evening In Paris
One of the highlights of my MBA in LBS was the MBAT trip. I should probably explain what the TLA - three-lettered acronym mean: MBA - Masters in Business Administration, LBS - London Business School and MBAT - Masters in Business Administration Tournament. MBAT is a fancy excuse to get drunk disguised as a sports tournament between MBA schools.
By Anu Sundaram3 years ago in Confessions
Wasted Shenanigans of Christmas 2019
It was my second Christmas away from home. I had moved away a year prior, which was only supposed to be six months. But life happened and I had met someone. Let's refer to him as Mikey*. Funny how things happen. The job I moved for, were very happy with how things panned out. Then.
By Jerome Smith-Pula3 years ago in Confessions
Rough day
I wouldn't say I grew up in the worst of homes. However it was by far not the best place to be, between having two parents in an unhappy marriage, to a difficult split, and then both of them hating whoever the other was seeing; made for uncomfortable home life.
By Ryan Welch3 years ago in Confessions
Why finding success at work shouldn’t be joyless
My biggest failure was working for many years almost completely without joy. I was working for success, for money, for accolades, I was even working for a mission—but I had created this bifurcation in my mind where work was work and maybe after all the work was done, I could go and be happy somewhere. But of course, that wasn’t reality.
By Zulqarnain Haider3 years ago in Confessions
Heart Attack Holiday
It should have been a day we would remember fondly for the rest of our lives. Our first Christmas together as a couple. Surrounded by my family at the lakeside vacation home of my new in-laws, I had never been so excited for a holiday get-together. Nervous as I may have been, my affairs had never been in better order.
By New Cult King3 years ago in Confessions
Weirdest Bible Stories The Church Tried to Hide From You
Exploding penises of holy prophets, a girl cut in two to settle an argument; boys boiled alive and eaten by their very own mothers; in the darkest of valleys a zombie army springs into action. The Bible can be a dark and frightening place, so get ready to have the fear of God put into you. 10. Let’s start with good old cannibalism, a rather taboo practice that is nonetheless as old as time. There are lots of mentions of cannibalism in the bible, although we doubt you ever read about them in Sunday school. We also imagine many of you haven’t heard of a guy named Micah. The Old Testament describes him living in a place called Moresheth in ancient Israel. As prophets tend to be, he was often very indignant when it came to the wicked ways of the rich and powerful. In terms of uttering stern words, Micah was a heavyweight champ. When denouncing the corrupt and greedy, he talks about cannibalism. He says of the greedy rulers, “Tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones.” They “eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces.” They “chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot.” As with many parts of the bible, you don’t have to take this literally. Micah might just have been using metaphors to say how terrible the leaders were, but did he have to go into so much detail? Then you have this from Jeremiah 19:9: “I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.” That sounds pretty literal to us, but of course, it might also have been symbolic. That brings us to the boiled kids, because what good story doesn’t have boiled kids in it?
By Jayveer Vala3 years ago in Confessions
