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Members Life Lessons Perspective

Feeling Lost, Overly Stressed Out, or Confused? This Is What You Might Be Missing

It'd be prudent to recognize the essential nature of balance before you suffer the consequences of imbalance.

by Lucas Hawthorne

Relationships Life Lessons Perspective

Okay, You’re Cute. Is That All? – The Truth About Objectification

The health of a relationship is more predicated on the personalities of people involved instead of their looks.

by Lucas Hawthorne

Perspective Relationships Self-Improvement

If You Really Want to Help Someone, Keep Your Thoughts and Prayers to Yourself

There's a difference between what you think you do, what you say you do, and what you actually do.

by Lucas Hawthorne

Perspective Relationships Self-Improvement

An Abused Child’s Open Letter to Present & Future Parents

Nothing says "bad parenting" like ignoring your child's cries for help and change while kicking their concerns and hardships to the curb.

by Lucas Hawthorne

Relationships Life Lessons Perspective

It’s Not You. It’s Them – Being Kind in a Cruel World

Given how cruel this world can be, if you can choose to be kind, that's a superpower.

by Lucas Hawthorne

Members Life Lessons Perspective

5 Powerful & Thought-Provoking Quotes to Reflect On

Quotes have been a thing of mine for many years. Even before I got started writing online. When I wasn't writing online, I was reading online, and this meant running into a lot of quotes and quote pictures, which I downloaded onto my computer. When I came across...

by Lucas Hawthorne