0 Life is Bigger than You!

If the era of social media has showed be anything, it's that some people LOVE to complain. Better yet, it's not so much that they love to complain, it's that they love the attention they get from it. Now I can see if you're at least funny when talking about your problem, then it can be seen as comedy. Or if you're just explaining stressful issues to a close friend, significant other. But in many cases, I see people who CONSTANTLY make these, self-centered, small-minded, useless complaints like: "OMG, the ice cube dispenser in my refrigerator is broken... WTF why is life so hard?"  or "My parents bought me a 16GB Ipad 3 instead...

0 Y.O.L.O... For real

"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." -Pope Pius VI “Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” -Ernest Hemingway "Now she got a photo, you already know though, you only live once, that's the motto... Y.O.L.O./ And we bout it every day... like we're sittin' on the bench... We don't really play." -Drake ... OK, despite how unoriginal, overused and lame that Drake line seems nowadays, it is still a very powerful statement. The problem is that although we know that we only...

0 Stay Hungry!!!

"The key to staying on top of thingsis treat everything like it's your first project...Like it's your first day... as an intern... just stay hungry" -Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace Last year, when I watched the acclaimed film, The Dark Knight Rises, I heard one of the characters say something that struck me.  It's from the scene where Bane, the villain of the movie, first fights Batman, and realizes how ineffective Batman's attack on him is. He says: "Peace has cost you your strength! Victory has defeated you." We all know that there's no feeling quite like the one that we get when we are victorious at something....

0 You're not bored, you're boring

"I'm bored, where's the party?" "It's so boring here!" Sound familiar? When I think of the word "Boredom" I think back to when I was 5 years-old, during that seemingly eternal half hour between me finishing my homework and before my favorite show at the time, "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" came on. Since my high school years, my mind has usually been occupied with something. My curiosity and fascination with various aspects of life didn't allow to be bored. So, today as an adult, it really bothers me when I hear other adults complain about being bored. I think to myself, "Where are all of these grown people getting all this...

0 The Case of the "Crazy" Celebrity

It's a scenario we've become all too familiar with. A celebrity has their stint in the limelight, and before we know it they become the center of attention, not for their talent, but for their misfortune. This misfortune can be trouble with the law, erratic behavior, controversial comments/actions, drug problems, sometimes it can all of them combined. After a while, the general consensus becomes: "Well, I guess (insert celebrity's name here) has gone crazy."  Yet, for many people, that's when the real show begins. We laugh at them, comedians make jokes about them, tabloids exaggerate stories about them and TMZ has a field day with...

0 Edinboro University: My journey for excellence

On the morning of August 25, 2007, at the age of 17 years old, my life changed forever. I remember the day vividly; I gave a hug to my parents and little brother as they got in the car to leave the parking lot of Lawrence Towers. My then-nine year-old brother, usually the family jokester, uncharacteristically had tears’ swelling up in his eyes. The sad look on his usually laughing face, showed that it was finally sinking in that it was time for the person closest to him, whom he’d been around every day of his life, to go away to college. As they drove away down Perry Lane and disappeared in the distance, I stood in the parking lot...

2 Health is a journey, not a destination

Life is going to throw many things at us which we are unable control. Yet, in many cases, our health and fitness isn't one of them. Yes, family history, environmental factors play a role, but in most cases, no one plays a bigger role on our health than ourselves. One of the most prevalent, yet avoidable health problems in the US related to the standard American lifestyle is obesity. According to the medical journal, PLoS Medicine, obesity is a leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing an estimated 200,000 deaths annually. It contributes to countless diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and even some cancers. Many...

0 The Injustice of Indifference

Recently, I was on Facebook, when I came across something that disgusted me...Well actually, that happens pretty often, but I digress. I saw a status written by a young women who apparently discussing  her previous night out, she said: "Ugh I'm definitely going to be banned from all Philly cabs or be the target of a terrorist attack at some point. I totally told this dbag cab driver to go back to his own country last night lol" But I wasn't so much surprised that she would post something like that, after all, America hasn't come that far in terms of cultural sensitivity and acceptance. And just because this guy is in office doesn't...