Tag: relationships
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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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Do it for the culture
Culture: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (popular culture, southern culture -merriam-webster.com In appreciation for the Migos’ album Culture, my obsession with analysis, summer and instrospection, I present…
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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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caller id and convo
As a millennial- I don’t like answering my parents’ house phone. The call is never for me. Telemarketers are as stubborn as I am and are always selling something. Answering the house phone requires me to leave the oasis of my room. So last Wednesday, though I was already perturbed that the phone was ringing-…
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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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Sometimes You Say I’m Just a Friend
“A ny man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell toils; it toils for the.” Jonne Donn I can grin when I am alone, I sometimes cry in solitude, I create my daily agenda, I can create and I can complete homework. I…
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