If you work as a server long enough, you can predict how people will respond to your questions. You introduce yourself and say, I’ll be your server tonight. And the man with three children responds, I’m Alan, and…
There are many venues that bring an individual to the realization that their mental health is not allowing them to cope and participate fully in life/society. My journey is one road and one understanding. I…
I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 years old. It was really just a hobby of mine and my main focus was getting good grades in school. I went to a high school…
There has been a lot of work put into the stigma that comes with the term mental health. Even with this though it is still so scary to admit we sometimes need help. I call…
I would like to look at Bangladeshi society with a different lens and reflect on the gender differences that men and women experience. Growing up in Bangladesh, I noticed that in my surroundings, men were…
As a kid, I dreamt of being a pilot. Because I was scared of heights, I thought to myself, “This will help me overcome my fear.” Plus there was always something about flying above the…
I used to have really pretty hair. I was born with thick, long, curly black hair. Then it lightened to a medium brown that got blonde and red streaks in the summer. When I was…
I’ve always known the definition of a leader but feel like I never truly understood what it meant until very recently. Several weeks ago, I made a trip to San Diego, CA to attend the…
Dream, again and again. . . . It felt like a vision. And simply, that’s all it was. There was no real that blew through the breeze of that untrue sky. The made up clouds…