Here are 100 ways to uncomplicate it… {perfect inspiration for a Sunday!}1. Don’t try to read other people’s minds2. Get up 30 minutes earlier so that you don’t rush/get a ticket while driving too fast/have to explain why you’re late/get fired3. Get 8 hours of sleep per night so that you think more clearly4. Stick to your budget5. Start saving and investing every week, no matter how little you can spare6. Balance your checkbook7. Don’t try to be friends with everyone. Cultivate closer relationships with fewer people.8. Don’t try to do business with everyone. Identify...

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A Letter for a Secret Love

Dear E,I have never told you that I like you…perhaps you have no idea about the countless hours I have spent thinking about you, imagining what it could have been if I had known you earlier or if we had spent more time together. You are my secret crush in UP. You’ll never know how much my heart screamed when you asked for my number…how ecstatic I am every time we ride the Ikot together on our way to class…and how disappointed I am that we can never be together because we are universes apart…I am a coward because I was never able to tell you this. You were the last person I saw before...

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Funeral Blues

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.Silence the pianos and with muffled drum,Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.Let the aeroplanes circle, moaning overhead,Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’.Put crepe bows ‘round the white necks of the public doves,Let traffic policemen wear black, cotton gloves.He was my North, my South, my East, and West.My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,Pack up...

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