All in all, writing my Bachelor's thesis from the first idea to the final product took me several months and countless hours at my desk at home or the library. To say it got boring sometimes is an understatement. So eventually, I started listening to music. Trust me, you can write the most epic passages when listening to the right music. Music makes you feel like you are sleighing a dragon while you write about the implications of a very dull ... Read the Post...
Your Body Does Not Define You
Let's get something straight: no one is going to get up at your funeral to say, "She had a flat stomach and a great thigh gap. That's why we loved her." The people in your life don't love you for what you look like but for who you are. Think of it the other way around. If one of your friends came up to you and told you they feel ugly, hate themselves and feel worthless because of their body, you would never tell them that that's true because ... Read the Post...
What is grief, if not the persistence of love?
Today marks two months of having to say goodbye to my beloved fur baby.After she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, all we had left were three short weeks of giving her all the love possible and make her last days as enjoyable and painless as possible. The last two months have been filled with pain, anger, and sadness. I feel like I am still not done processing the cancer diagnosis, yet she has already been gone for eight weeks. These past ... Read the Post...
“You’re not fat; you’re beautiful.” – Ehm, no.
Every fat person has heard this statement before. It is meant as a compliment and meant to make a fat person feel better about themselves.Because being fat is bad, right? The word fat is a bad word, that seems to be a fact. And even Grammarly would rather have me use the word 'overweight'. Many people live with this often unconscious idea that fat is bad. So when their friends and family say they are fat, they feel the need to tell them they ... Read the Post...
