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To the Men in My Life

As I reflect on the question I receive on a regular basis - why I still don't have a boyfriend - one of the things that comes to mind is that I think I am lucky in the department of having good men in my life. And when most your life you have been surrounded with the cream of the crop, it just follows that you construct for yourself standards based on them. It’s my ex-lovers, my friends, my brothers, my colleagues, my heroes who I am blaming as to why I still don't have a boyfriend, I mean, it can't all just be me. Let's expound on this a little more. I can say that most of my guy friends are the nicest and most interesting guys I know. I'm used to having good laughs with them, that's why I can never connect, more so get attracted to someone who does not have the same kind of humor as I do and I hate doing fake laughs just to be 'nice.' I'm used to talking with my boy friends about stuff, interesting stuff and vain/useless stuff. I like co...

Chasing Creativity ( Some Reasons Why I Started Blogging)

I'm a really curious person, maybe that's the biggest drive for my love of travel and adventure. I've heard this TED talk about "Multipotentialites" which basically are people who have no one true calling. My favorite synonym to this is the Renaissance person, those "whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas, referring to the renaissance time period." And I felt a little relived after somebody told me that it's okay to be wanting so many diverse and sometimes contradicting things in life. As somebody who values consistency, it's always a constant battle whether or not I should be more consistent in the things that I pursue. Like my love of adventure and how I love my corporate stint. Sometimes when I review my life, I come reach a point where I force myself to make a decision on whether to pursue this and let go of that. Oh what a relief it was to stumble upon this insight, that I can actually chase after many drea...