12/10/23: How Passion in Others Can Inspire Us

Today I watched the Congress testimonies and trials of President Gay, the president of Harvard University. She, along with two other Ivy League Presidents, were being asked to step down from their positions in light of their inability to address antisemitism on their campuses. This came as quite a shock to me. President Gay was […]

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Daily Prompt: What is one thing you would change about yourself?

If we’re being real here, everyone has something they’d change about themselves. Maybe you want to change your personality– like anxiety-levels or pet-peeves. Or a behavior– like negative self-talk or gossiping. Or maybe you simply want to change your bank account balance (don’t we all LOL). When I was reading through other bloggers’ responses about […]

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Daily Prompt 11/6/23: Do You Need Time?

Today I spent most of my day studying and focusing on school work. However, it felt like the more I studied, the less I knew. “If only I had more time,” I thought. Fast forward to dinner today to the conversation I had with my partner for a class project. Jokingly, we were talking about […]

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Daily Prompt 10/30/23: The Only Truth that Hasn’t Changed is Change Itself

I saw this prompt earlier this morning while I was trying to mentally escape a boring lecture. It worked somewhat because for the rest of class all I could think about was what everyone should know. As my thoughts drifted, my first idea was the obvious, semantic information. This includes knowledge like chemistry, math, physics […]

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Daily Prompt 10/2/23: What are five things you’re grateful for?

I’m back with another (short) blog post! Life at university has been hectic, but I miss writing on my blog so I thought I’d share my gratitude list today Things I’m Grateful for today: Hopefully I’ll get to write more in a future blog post, but that’s all I want to share for today. Till […]

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Daily Prompt 9/7/23: Should schools teach how to journal?

List night I had an occurrence of deja vu. My roommate wrote inside my journal while we joked about my obsession with sushi, they wrote about how I only need sushi as bribery! During our moments of laughter, I suddenly remembered a time from elementary school, when another friend of mine had written in my […]

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Daily Prompt 8/20/23: What motivates you?

What motivates you? This is a question that many of us have been asked before; whether it was from another person or from ourselves, probably during a time of low motivation. Motivation is a common topic of conversation. For example, “I got a random burst of motivation last night!” or “I have no motivation left […]

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Daily Prompt 8/16/23: What positive emotion do you feel most often?

When I saw this prompt, excitement rushed through me because, yet again, I get to talk about gratitude. Then, on second thought, I questioned if gratitude really is my most commonly felt positive emotion. Thus, I decided to make a list in my journal for each time I felt a positive emotion today. Here’s what […]

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Daily Prompt 8/13/23: Dear Parents, You Are Doing Everything Right!

Today I had an enlightening discussion with my family friend. He and I, sitting on the floor at the temple together, got to discussing the generation’s differences. What started off as light banter of comparing slang words eventually became a discussion on how to parent a generation you’re unable to understand or connect with. My […]

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