Self Discovery

“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” – Conrad Hall Benjamin Franklin famously tried to be the perfect person.  He understood he had flaws, but he strived to change them.  He created a list of 13 virtues […]

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde We have always been taught to seek happiness through an optimistic future plan. You should not dwell on the past you can’t change because your future

My story begins in a small town in Western Pennsylvania, I had just graduated from high school and I had the whole world ahead of me. Nevertheless, I had no direction; I was lost with no real sense

The evolution of people is fascinating.  I don’t mean people as a species over millions of years.  No, I mean individual people over decades or just a few years.  I mean me. I left school as an almost

“Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.” – Gregory McKeown Walk, Don’t Run. The three words that drove me berserk as a child.  I didn’t want to

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” – John

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. — Decouvertes In college, I lived in the same dormitory as a very bright, funny young woman.  She would pass out cookies to everyone on the floor.  Her

In his novel “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Anglo-American author Christopher Hitchens wrote “[that] time spent arguing, is, oddly enough, almost never wasted”. I agree with this wholeheartedly. I was raised on dinner table debates. Small and unassuming,

“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” ― C. JoyBell C. “If you don’t go to university you’re a loser!” These words rang in my ears through high