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When you move or travel to somewhere new, one of the biggest challenges you encounter is balancing what you know from word-of-mouth about the place and what is actually accurate about the people who live there. You create your own experiences through a lens of what you think will happen versus the true reality of the situation.
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It made me wonder how much people can change over the years as relationships evolve and ties that once were strong become strained with the passing of time. Friendships, if not cared for like living entities, can become wilted and slowly disintegrate beneath your grasp, despite your best efforts to act like nothing is wrong.
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The addition of the internet onto cell phones has also become a gateway to instant gratification and can sometimes even spawn new friendships if you are too shy to speak to someone on a more personal level. However, if you really think about it, what is technology doing to the fundamental social skills that people have to learn and cultivate? If you can’t talk to someone in person and you resort to e-mailing or Facebook-ing them, is that really the
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Tonight I was out for a friend’s birthday and at the end of the night, it ended up being myself and five wonderful ladies (lucky me). They began talking about and sharing different experiences they had with men approaching them and trying to build relationships (or some pathetic excuse for a relationship). I, honestly, was a little (and some a lot) disappointed in the things they said and
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If you’re a man, I’m sure you’ve thought about how complex women are. How they simply can’t be figured out. How they do the most bizarre things, for unknown reasons. (If you’re a woman, it’s likely you agree.) If you have, then you will find this next statement confusing and perplexing. Women are not as complicated as you think they are. They’re actually rather simple.
Before you brush me off as a
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While browsing YouTube the other day, I noticed an interesting ad, placed below a video entitled, “Single black women find the search for love is especially difficult.”
The ad pictured a Black woman with a shirtless White man next to the text, “AfroRomance — Where
Have you ever been to a wedding and wondered just why you were participating in the ritual? An up coming movie JUMPING THE BROOM is a hilarious comedy about a wedding ceremony that forces two divergent families to get along.
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Closure, that unpopular C-word that leaves otherwise sane people feeling stuck. Moving on from what was once an important piece of your life can be a difficult or painful thing to do. Without proper closure there may be sleepless nights, worrying and those awful “what if” questions pondering through your thoughts… not a great feeling at all. So what do you do now?
I recently had to end a friendship that was
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We all want to think positive. No one wants to be that person that people run away from. We all want to love lives that can be reflective of what we wish to do in our lives. Joy, happiness, and forward thinking should be your mantra. If we are creatures of a loving God why would we choose to be miserable and spread it? Sounds to me like a pretty basic
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Friendship is what makes us better people. We see it everyday around us. Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg are examples of strong friendships and what works well. Snoop’s tweet about the untimely passing of Nate Dogg last night. You can read the pain. It is working on having a friendship that last through the years that is work.
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Forgiveness is a hard thing to do. It is something we rarely do to others, but we should. It’s a hard thing thing to do for ourselves and we don’t. Forgiveness is a key to spiritual growth.
Each day we should try to forgive ourselves and others. It does not make you weak.It just shows that we are aware of our lives. It shows that we
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Over the years I have watched my share of reality television. I have even taken part in one. I was appalled by the actions and behavior of Evelyn Lozada on last night’s ‘Basketball Wives Reunion Show”. One of the reasons I chose to write for Elev8 was to uplift and inspire people. It was a way to encourage people to do better, because we can be better.
After watching
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Praying for friendships is one the most important things we can do in life. Without true friends we are bound in a world of loneliness missing God’s love in simple things.
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Couples Alert!- Have you ever heard of the term the “7 year itch”? A recent UK study conducted for Warner Bros to promote the film, “Hall Pass” in UK theaters discovered couples tolerance for one another has decreased from 7 years to 36 months.
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Cheryl Lacey Donovan delivers an empowering and life-changing book titled, Women, What the Hell Are You Thinking Now? Through the pages of this book, Donovan seeks to help women look inside themselves for the change they want to see in their lives.
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