Anxiety is one hell of a drug It wraps you in one big bad hug It holds you tight With all its might Leaving you squished like a bug When it takes a hold of you It's difficult to see things through Its body gets in the way Making havoc with your day You …
In today’s post I am going to be talking to the animals, wait that came out wrong. In today’s post I am going to be talking about animals, yes that’s what I meant to say, specifically about pets. By No machine-readable author provided. Caronna assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons …
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It’s always nice to connect with your inner child (or so psychiatrists keep saying). For the most part children are filled with innocence and joy, so it makes sense to do some childlike things so that we may feel some of that innocence and joy and connect with our inner child as well, and what …
People love chocolate; I love chocolate, you love chocolate, we all love chocolate. Chocolate is by far my favorite type of dessert, be it in ice cream, in a bar or biscuit form, I love it. So it should come as no surprise that when I found out that chocolate can help reduce stress that, …
I love cartoons; even today I watch cartoons either on the television or via the internet. Yes I’m a grown man who should probably take life more seriously and leave the kids’ stuff to kids, but you know what? To hell with it, cartoons used to make me happy as a kid, and they still …
Today we are going to sit down and have a real chat (even though I’m the only one who will be talking and you can do nothing but listen). Today we are going to talk about talking. So this is something that I feel is severely underrated. After a long hard day filled with nothing …
Let me ask you a rather strange question. When was the last time you looked at some green? And I don’t mean the colour green, anyone can look at the colour green (like a green shirt or something); when I say looking at green I mean looking at trees, the grass and nature. It’s a …
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Have you ever accidentally bumped your toe against the corner of a table? If you answered yes (and I imagine most of you have) then the next few words that came out of your mouth probably went something like this, “F#@%, you m#@$%&+;&*@ table. How in the f#@$ can you cause so much pain? Oh …
Photo credit to: Carlos ZGZ A lot of people say that a good way to relieve stress is to take up a hobby of some sort. The reason behind this is to take your mind off of everything else, not just the things that stress you out, but everything else. The idea is to put …
I like to consider myself a gamer, and even if I am not that good at them I still like to play. There are a lot of games out there, board games, card games, video games, computer games, mobile games, you name it, and people play games for various reasons, mostly when they are bored …
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