Tag: Love
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If a millennial “lols” and no one is around to hear it, was there really laughter?
I’ve been spending more time reflecting, learning, observing and questions all I’ve grown accustomed to regarding society, interpersonal relationships and capitalism/ our socialized duty to ensure all our behaviors work to maintain our consumerist society… Meanwhile, I’ve also noticed my aptitude to “lol” after opening a DM on Twitter with some pic, story or comment…
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Good Days//Bad Daze
TBH- I think I’m a friendly person. I love people, I’m approachable and I live to hear a good story. And for the Hilldale Senior Class of 2014, Kalen Russell was voted Most Spirited Despite my better qualities and good intentions, I have my vices, my worries and my weaknesses. Sometimes I’m dazed by bad…
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Phenomenal Women
Black womanhood is multifaceted, resilient and inspiring. I am a Black woman and I love who I am. I love the Black women who raised me: my mom, my aunt, my grandmothers, older cousins, family friends, church elders, anyone who has resembled me and lit a fire within my core to press on. Phenomenal Woman…
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Taking the Lead
Question: Kalen, how are you going to be a leader of our time/. Answer: By taking risks. The social norm is conformity, isolation, apathy, and self-promotion. Those are things that divide society, promote prejudice and stratification. In a world that celebrates only looking out for yourself and living in fear of others, I want to care…
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Comparison, Competition and Categorization
I’m an only child. I don’t have siblings to be compared against- therefore, I am simultaneously the best and worst at all I do. My accomplishments and failures are often augmented/ blown out of proportion, but never used to determine my value or as a tool to compare me to others. I became independent at…
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More Than Meets The -I-
The need for community it an intrinsic human desire. When asked of the greatest commandment, Jesus said, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31. Written almost 1,000 years later, The Epic of…
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