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The Unwritten Stories of Heroes

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  As children, we learn about stories of heroes (both real and fictional), who are brave, hardworking, compassionate, and how they overcome extremely difficult situations. We aspire to become like these heroes. Keeping our hero in mind, we persevere through difficult moments, we work tirelessly to become the best versions of ourselves, we try help those around us. I believe everyone should have a hero to help them find attributes they want to improve in their lives and give them direction. However, our heroes usually only let us see what they want us to see! Because we don't see their weaknesses or their struggles, we see these heroes as perfect. That usually results in us believing that we need to be perfect as well. We work harder and harder to achieve this unobtainable goal and we feel like failures when we break down emotionally. Unfortunately, what we don't always see in the hero's journey, though, is all the ugly stuff in between that got them to their victory. You ne...
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The life-changing lesson I learned by observing pesky flies

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  When I was living in Memphis, we had a lake in our backyard. We lived in a very old house and we had to deal with a lot of insects inside our house. For someone who doesn't like bugs, I was not very excited when flying insects would bounce around from window to window, and lightbulb to lightbulb. One day, there was a fly buzzing behind my head on the window, trying to find a way out. I was crawling in my skin, I hate bugs!!! I remember turning all of the lights off in one room and then running to the other room and switching the lights on, in a hope to get the pesky insect out of the room! (Don't judge, everyone has their quirks). I was extremely disappointed, however, when the fly stayed glued to the window right behind me! I jumped up to run away from the window, just to dodge another fly frantically dashing to the other room where I turned the light on.  After I calmed down, I sat at the kitchen table and just observed the difference between the two flies. The one at the ...
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