Emily Howitt

Do you ever feel like you just suck? Like you can't do anything right? Like everyone is better at you at everything, including sucking? I mean, I literally feel bad for feeling bad sometimes. There are people with way worse situations in the world than I have, and probably worse then you have. But I'm here to tell you that no matter how much you think you suck, you can't keep thinking that. Let's get one thing straight here. You may not like what I'm going to say, but guess what. You're not a vampire, a robot, or a highly advance organism. You are human. *gasp* It's true. You're human. You are not perfect. Even if you think you're perfect, you're not. So stop beating yourself up for not doing something as impossible as being perfect! You need to be your own best friend in life. So wait. You're telling me I'm now so pathetic and lonely I have to pretend that I'm my best friend?  Well, not exactly. It essentially means you need to t...

So I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, well, and also a lot of procrastinating (mainly because of the whole comfort zone thing, but that's another post), and I've been thinking that we should think of life as a video game. Not in the sense that we should go out and shoot people and steal their cars like in Grand Theft Auto, but by adopting the same mentality that you have when you play a video game, to other aspects in life. I am also not saying that you should not be aware of the consequences of your actions, as what you do in real life matters greatly, and what you do in a video game does not matter at all outside of the video game. What I'm saying is you should have the same approach to how you think about each situation. When you play a video game, you know that there is a way to beat the video game and win. Whether it is a role playing game, an arcade game, or an insanely evil game like Shift 2, you know that even if you don't know how to win, that ther...