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Word of the Day: 顛末
Last night I was overwhelmed with the thoughts of my ex Yuuichirou. I think it was triggered a bit with the AI keyboard because it was spitting out things different than if I put it on the google search engine. It kept on mentioning "help" so I wasn't sure if it was like some sort of spiritual call to duty or something; is he in jail or the hospital and I don't know?
By Kayla McIntosh3 days ago in Confessions
The Dress She Wore Every Day for a Year
THE EXPERIMENT NOBODY UNDERSTOOD 👗 When thirty-four-year-old architect Emma Chen announced to her friends and colleagues that she would wear the same black dress every day for an entire year, the reactions ranged from concerned inquiry about whether she was experiencing a mental health crisis to fascinated support from the small community of minimalists and anti-consumption advocates who understood immediately what she was attempting, and the majority response which was confusion and mild alarm revealed something important about how deeply clothing choice is embedded in social identity and how threatening the refusal to participate in the daily performance of self-expression through fashion is to people who have never questioned the assumption that what you wear communicates who you are and that wearing the same thing every day communicates something negative about your mental state, your social awareness, or your respect for the people around you 🤔
By The Curious Writer4 days ago in Styled
The Voice That Stopped a War
THE MOMENT BEFORE THE SPEECH 🎤 On October 9, 2012, a fifteen-year-old girl named Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman while riding a school bus in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, targeted specifically because she had been publicly advocating for girls' education in a region where the Taliban had banned girls from attending school and had destroyed over four hundred schools to enforce this prohibition, and the bullet that entered her skull and traveled through her face was intended to silence the most prominent voice for female education in a region where educating girls was considered a threat to religious authority and patriarchal control, but instead of silencing her the assassination attempt amplified her voice to a global volume that the Taliban could never have anticipated and that transformed a local activist into the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history and one of the most influential advocates for education and human rights in the modern world 🌍
By The Curious Writer4 days ago in Potent
Cold medications with the ingredient Doxylamine succinate can be dangerous for seniors
Last Sunday, I took a Kroger-brand nighttime cold medication similar to Niquil, something I have done for the past 30 years without a problem. I was not familiar with the antihistamine Doxylamine succinate, which is the ingredient in the sleep aid Unisom.
By Cheryl E Preston4 days ago in FYI
"The Black Point: A Chronicle of the Great Disconnection and the Soul’s Final Strike"
The Disconnection Protocol: Chronicles from the Black Point I. Waking Up in the Fissure The modern world is experiencing a phenomenon that institutions are quick to label. They call it a mental health crisis, chronic burnout, or a failure to integrate. But for those of us on the inside, it feels as if the scenery of a movie set is beginning to peel off the walls. It is that precise moment when you stop believing in the script.
By Lorena Alonso4 days ago in FYI
