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So, the story that I want to share is related to, also related to the wedding, but just being in San Diego. And so, while I was there, I had a few extra days to visit and sightsee and see some of the old places from school.\n\nAnd so, one of the fun activities was, now some of my friends are still in the area working o... | Today, I got to take part in a celebration to mark Nick & Bec's 20th Anniversary. I was asked to be part of the ceremony by writing and presenting 5 Haikus about their relationship. When I got to the party, I was amazed at the number of old friends of mine that were also attending the event. I knew at least 45 of the 5... | 1 |
Oh, so, I guess for my sister\'s plans for today, like how we\'re going to take her to University. And I think a lot of it really reminds me of my first time going to College alone. Well, I didn\'t go to College alone, but basically, I was the first in my family to go to University outside of state. My sister, my older... | As a freshman, my first year of college had its ups and downs. It probably had some of the darkest moments of my life, from times of intense loneliness sitting at the dining hall alone, to self-hatred at feeling stupid whenever I had no idea how to approach a pset.
But, as I realized when I started tearing up as I beg... | 1 |
So, I think I've mentioned that I have a cat. His name is Zoro. I adopted him when my other cat was about ten years old. Sadly, my other cat passed away a couple of years ago. I had him for 15 years and he was just super, like the best cat ever. And we were super close, definitely bonded. But when I adopted Zoro, he wa... | I was coming out of the grocery store and saw something black wiggling in the bushes on the edge of the curb in the parking lot. I thought it was a duck at first, so I didn't pay much attention, except that maybe I would move it after unloading my groceries so that it didn't get run over by someone else parking at the ... | 1 |
Yeah, so I want to just tell the story of the time I went on a road trip in the Southwest. I went with my sister and my nephew. I was in high school, and we flew to Phoenix, and then we rented a car. And from Phoenix, we drove to Sedona. We stayed in Sedona for eight days. And then I got to go to, like, Petrified Fores... | I was on a vacation with my brother, and we decided to take a long road trip through New England and up to the Canadian border. We set off with only a rough destination in mind and intending to go or do whatever caught our eye over the long drive of about a week. We stopped in many cool little towns along the way. Ther... | 1 |
So, I was kind of looking at old pictures but also thinking about pictures from my childhood. And my mom is really embarrassed about herself. She's always been, ever since I can remember. And it's funny because a lot of times in old pictures, I'll see my sister and I or my sister and other people in our family. But it'... | I feel I'm not enough for Ella. I feel that I'm so worthless and useless and not good enough for her. She is so much more than me. I see nothing in myself, and I feel I've been dragging her down with my sadness. Lately, I haven't been doing well and I'm sorry for not voicing out. It's extremely hard for me to speak up ... | 0 |
So, yesterday it was my birthday. I turned 23. And we went out to sushi last night, which was very fun. And I got a free dinner. And I went out with my friend, Amy. And a group of her friends whom I wasn't super close with, but I got to know all of them over dinner. And it was a very fun experience. | What a day, August 8, 2019! It was my 45th birthday, and I thought it was going to be just like any other birthday I have had. But this day, my family and friends decided to throw me a surprise party. I was in total shock, never expected a surprise party.
It started off like a typical day, waking up and getting ready ... | 0.25 |
Yeah, I\'ve been reaching out to more people and seeing if I can talk to more people in this New York City and get to know more people around here. I had a dinner with a friend last week, which was really nice. It was really good to have common friends and then catch up. We had Korean food, which was really nice. And I... | I was dating this woman who was really adventurous and really wanted to go to Japan, and I didn't really know what else to do, and I was like, "Sure." I happened to luck into a job working for an English language newspaper there, writing about environmental issues, which was like the coolest job I never deserved.
They... | 0.25 |
Yeah, so I think something I\'ve been thinking about lately is this book that I\'ve been reading. It\'s called "The Way of the Wanderer," and basically, it\'s about a war between, I think, ten dogs. And one of the gods is the wandering God. And another god is the God of Law. And the God of Law is trying to become the o... | I grew up in Nigeria. But we came from a very entrepreneurial family. And that meant that people were doers. And I believe in life, that you actually have the capacity to do whatever it is you want to do. Nobody else is going to do it.
There are so many things you see in life that you feel like there's injustice. But ... | 0.5 |
So it's been about two months since we deep cleaned our house. Me and my girlfriend. And this morning, we woke up early, and it was a great week at work for both of us. So we woke up early this morning and we decided that we were going to wash the covers for our couch and we were going to keep them in the house. So we ... | Sarah got the job in Amsterdam. She's really excited, and I'm happy for her, but I'm worried too. I know the doctors say her tumor is not aggressive, and that her situation is good, but it's still cancer. Amsterdam has excellent healthcare options, but her doctors here are very good and know her case. She says it's not... | 0.5 |
So the play that I mentioned earlier, in the play, I take the role of a child who is really annoyed at having to do a service project, which is basically serving some burritos to a homeless population, and just really annoyed and frustrated and worried about my own material comforts. And then I realized that the homele... | On Thanksgiving Day—that's the only day my parents would take me out to dinner—there was this woman going through a garbage can, with her little daughter, about three or four years old, picking out her Thanksgiving dinner out of a garbage can. At that point in my life, I began to think, it's not as good on this planet ... | 1 |
This isn't really a story as much as just a kind of state of emotions recently. I've been getting really overwhelmed. It just feels like one thing after another happens and nothing's really big. It's really just coming down, I guess, to like money, stress, and just having to deal with life's little hiccups that it thro... | I had cancer as a kid, and so I grew up with that being sort of the centerpiece of my life. I was told I couldn't do certain things because of that. And I certainly felt like it made a pretty big impact on my life, growing up, because it colored everything for me.
When I got out of the hospital, it colored every singl... | 0 |
Boat. All right, gboat. This is a fun story from a time that I was camping in New Zealand, in the country. New Zealand. And there were torrential rains, and we were camping near a river. And as it began to rain, I thought it would be fun to explore along the river. And there were some farmland near the river. And it wa... | My wife and I traveled to Italy and did an amazing hike in the Dolomite mountain range. I had wanted to do this hike for many years and had researched it quite a bit. I knew it was going to be difficult, but I had no idea how much so. We started early in the morning, and for about four hours, we just kept climbing up h... | 0.5 |
Well, gee. Boat, this story is about a lovely friend I made at Zumba. Her name is Melody, spelled M E L O D Y, but her whole family is musically oriented and her name is Melody. And I always look forward to seeing her. We've connected over kind of the way we raise our children and worldview, and how to deal with chroni... | When I was in my investment banking job, I was thinking about where I'm gonna go on my next vacation. Because now I actually had the money to travel, and I had some vacation days. All my friends, my colleagues started coming to know me as the travel desk. I was doing that at work and with my friends, and some of them s... | 0.5 |
So, since we are talking about moving to a new place, I wanted to share my story about my history of my relocation and how my perspective in life has changed since then. So, I've been living in different countries since I was young. I lived in Canada, India, and now I live in the US. I was originally born and raised in... | When I was in my investment banking job, I was thinking about where I'm gonna go on my next vacation because now I actually had the money to travel, and I had some vacation days. All my friends, my colleagues started coming to know me as the travel desk. I was doing that at work and with my friends, and some of them sa... | 1 |
So this is a story of how my mom and dad got married. So they have this super cute love story that I wish I also will have, can have these, but who knows. Basically, my mom and my dad grew up on the same little street in the same little, tiny farming fishing village in China. There were just a few houses apart. My mom ... | A few months ago at the Styx concert, he surprised me and proposed. After 13 years of being together, I actually never thought it would happen.
The song "Lady" started, and he gave his phone to a person we didn't know behind us. I thought that was really strange, but it didn't dawn on me that there could be any other ... | 0.5 |
So, about two years ago, I was in a pretty challenging course with optional homework. I took the option and didn't do any of those homework because it didn't affect my grade. But then, coming up to the exam, I thought I knew everything that I needed, and the exam was a wake-up call where I didn't do so well. And lookin... | I took an exam without studying for it because I thought I couldn't take it. Learned I could just minutes before it started, so I had to do it without going over the subjects.
I thought I had done horrible. But I received the results today, and I managed to pass with the exact score I needed!
At least all those sle... | 0.25 |
I\'ll do a part two to my adoption story, something that surfaced when I was about 25 years old and so quite a while after my adoption. I took a graduate study and we traveled to Korea, and it was my first time back to Seoul, South Korea. Since, basically since my adoption. And I don\'t know if I\'ve had that many emot... | I grew up in Nanjing, China. When I was a baby, I lost my right leg in a fire. Shortly after that, I was abandoned on the street. I was found at a year and a half old and taken to the local government orphanage. Fortunately for me, I was adopted when I was seven years old and came here to the states.
When I was 14 yea... | 0.25 |
Yeah. So this is the beginning of the school year, and I've seen a lot of people moving into their dorms and apartments. And it really got me thinking about when I first went to College, when I was moving into the dorm. How excited my parents were for me and scared. And I was both excited and scared, moving away from h... | "You are so smart." That phrase has been told to me since I was a kid. I felt special when I was told this, so I did everything I could to get that phrase told to me by my peers, parents, and teachers. I even got into college with a pretty big scholarship.
But now that I am in my second year of college, I am massively... | 0.5 |
I have recently been going through a bit of a reckoning with a close friend of mine from college. So, we met 10-12 years ago. And he lives in a different city. And we haven't spent a ton of time together recently. Though we have spent a lot of time talking on the phone and recently we spent a week together traveling. A... | I'm recently out of a relationship. As in, we broke up about a month ago. As I've been coming to terms with that and trying to move on, I've caught myself starting to have stronger feelings towards one of my best friends, and I wish they would just go away.
He's a great dude, honestly. I feel like in the off chance th... | 0.25 |
I guess, a story I want to tell right now is, I guess, my love for robots and how, over the course of my life, I've grown with technology and have worked very much hands-on on tangible devices like hardware. And it's a lot of fun, and it's what I love doing. But now, I'm transitioning to positions that are more like da... | I'm the CEO of StoryFit. We're an AI technology company that helps studios and publishers make decisions over how they tell their stories and what kind of stories they're acquiring.
I decided in fourth grade, when a local television news reporter came and talked to the class, that I wanted to be in news. I pursued jou... | 1 |
So, when our girls were in high school, we took a trip to Costa Rica. And the girls, I think they were both in high school. Although Melinda may have been in junior high school, and Susanna, a freshman in high school. I think that is what it was. So I planned the trip, and I planned it all online. There wasn't any Expe... | I recently went to Mexico for my 25th birthday. It was exciting because I haven't been there before, and it was a chance to get a group of my friends together. We spent 4 days over there, and we had events planned every day. It was busy but definitely a lot of fun.
The first night, we just relaxed at the resort. The s... | 0.75 |
Um, yeah. So, I guess, like, my story and thought is that my friend Olivia came to visit. She helped me from Claremont, took a train that was like 30 minutes, and then helped me pack as I move out. And she made it so much fun and it really inspired me to bring in more play into my everyday life than make it tedious to ... | I would work nine to five, and then as soon as I left, I would go to the studio and take pictures. That kind of helped me push it pushed me to be like, "Okay, I don't need this. I can actually go out and make it on my own," so I haven't looked back since.
I've actually been able to enjoy my life way more than I would... | 0.25 |
This is going to be a very empowering story. This is a moment in time in my life when I was crossing and driving into Savannah right before I was about to start grad school. So the backstory of all of this is, I was about 35 years old. I had a four-year-old, I had a job, and I just needed a career path change, so I qui... | I was home three days a month. I was old and tired and cranky. I made over six figures, I flew first-class. I couldn't be bought for money anymore, I decided. And about six months after I resigned, I adopted the most adorable Weimaraner puppy, and I brought Gabriel to the Crisis Nursery for their Christmas party.
What... | 0.25 |
Well, I guess one of the stories I was thinking about is further connected to my interest in human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, and my personal journey and experience with computers and robots. I graduated yesterday. And I recreated one of my photos from school with my mom yesterday. So it was a photo... | I'm a designer and an engineer. My work has really focused on blending electronics and computing with art and design. I've done a lot of work in combining textiles and fashion with electronics and computer science. I developed a kit called LilyPad Arduino that lets you sew electronics into your clothes. Kind of robotic... | 0.75 |
Yeah, lately, I think life has been going pretty good in terms of, like, oh, I got started pretty well. And so, it\'s been pretty easy for me to just get down to work. I\'ve been sleeping early and waking up early. And just been good, right? Well, for the past few days, and then today, I went out to the furniture store... | I grew up playing an all-girls' sport. I never was really friends with the other girls because they were always talking about boys and makeup and drama, while I was always more focused on my grades, college, or reading. I didn't dislike any of them, just always felt out of the loop and disconnected. I was homeschooled,... | 0.5 |
Hello. Yesterday, I found out that my partner won't be able to visit me here in the US, and that made me very sad because I was looking forward to seeing them, spending some time together, and being comforted by that. So now, I'm despondent. | Roughly three months ago, I felt it was time to discontinue a seven-year friendship. My friend Daniel and I met when I was 18, and we had a lot in common. Over the span of 7 years, a lot of intimate and fun memories were made together. We both attended college, worked, and spent many hours over the weekends hanging out... | 0.75 |
Guys, so today I was watching an episode of Suits, and in Suits, there is a lawyer named Louis. The whole thing is a TV show that takes place in New York, in a law office. Louis is one of the lawyers who is constantly trying to be the best, and he always sees himself as inferior to Harvey, another character. And every ... | It's really easy to get caught up in believing that somebody else's life plan is the one that you should live by. I've been told authors don't make money, creative people don't make money. I thought if I get to the end of my life and what I've accomplished is paying off student loan debt and that's all I have to show f... | 0.5 |
Sure, here is the transcript with the errors fixed:\n\nStore. Okay. This is my first story. So, I suppose I just start. I thought I would share a story that I've been thinking about related to a time I auditioned to speak when I worked at URI, and that's a memory. That's a nice memory for me, and it makes me think abou... | I saw a movie that I enjoyed so much I saw it three times in the last week. I first went to it alone. Then I went to it with my husband. Then I took my girlfriend to see it last night. The movie was about an event that was a fantasy and yet totally believable. The characters were sweet and lovely, and they made you wan... | 0.25 |
All right. Gbo. So, I had shared this story with you in a session just previous to this, but I'm not sure that you understood it correctly. Or actually, you understood it correctly, but the tablet wasn't working properly. So, I'll tell part of that story again, which is just that when I was a senior in college, I got t... | I went to school because I loved coding and I wanted to develop a coding career. I reached out to a band I liked and said, "Hey, long shot, but could I make you guys a website?" To my surprise, they emailed back ten minutes later. They were like, "Yeah, actually, we'd really love for you to make us a website. How about... | 0.25 |
Yesterday was my daughter Melinda's birthday, and she was 37 years old. It's hard to imagine that she's 37 years old now, 37 in one day. So, I was thinking a lot about the day she was born. I had hoped to have a vaginal delivery, and I had a room all picked out where you could stay in the same room in the hospital for ... | I was scared when I found out I was pregnant. I didn't think I was ready or able to take care of someone else. I trusted the dad completely, but a baby is a big, life-changing thing. I went in for a regular check-up the day before she was due. My blood pressure was really high, and they told me that I needed to have he... | 1 |
Yeah, I had like a really good learning from a friend, well, acquaintances really, at a bar. And essentially, there\'s two acquaintances, friends. One is named John Ross and the other is named Alfred. John Ross is like 39 and Alfred\'s 89. And Alfred leaned over to me and he asked me a question. And he said, "Are you h... | I've had multiple experiences, and all of them have been very significant in my evolution. I originally majored in geology because I liked rocks. Then they threw physics at me, and I decided that this was not for me. But I clearly didn't know what I was doing. I jumped from job to job trying to figure out. Seven months... | 0.5 |
So, back in elementary school, I switched schools in third grade. I was put in a class with a group of people, and I had the same people in my class through fifth grade. The group of friends that I made there continued on through high school. And when we got to the college admissions process, when we were applying to c... | I'm going to be applying for schools soon (mostly UCs/CSUs, as well as BU/Northeastern), but every time I try to start the application process, I just get overwhelmed by thinking about how everyone will see me if I get rejected everywhere. Anytime I think I'm doing well in school, all my classmates seem to be doing bet... | 0.75 |
Okay. So I have been working at a bakery for the last month, part-time, because I quit my job and traveled. And now I\'m here. So far, working in a bakery has been really cool. It\'s been really interesting to work with my coworkers and be in an environment that I really like. It\'s been a long time since I worked in p... | I have had an internship for a few months now, working on systems for bigger companies. About two months ago, I started working on a project and became the person who was consistently on-site to help troubleshoot and train the customer.
It was nerve-wracking at first because I would be training the manager and employe... | 1 |
Yeah, so I was talking with my best friend. It was just one of the regular calls that we were having. And so I was talking to her about this thing that I kind of discovered recently, which is that it\'s not about me not having motivation to do something, but it\'s more about what am I more motivated to do at a certain ... | About 5 months ago, I quit my good job up in Virginia, sold my home, and moved back down to Florida. It all started out 4 years ago when my Uncle, who owns a couple of event planning companies, asked me to come work for him since his main company just received a huge contract from the federal government. I said yes rig... | 0.25 |
So my story is about my feelings that got activated about the feelings of jealousy that got activated when I got to know that a friend of mine, who is younger to me, got a job. And I just feel that I am running behind in my life, certain aspects. And there are people, and people around me, who are like having the same ... | One of the things my parents always taught me was to always take pride in your work, regardless if it's cleaning toilets. Even though I was working just at the mall, I still took a lot of pride in work and being a holiday cashier. Eventually they kept me on. It ended up being something I fell in love with. 27 years lat... | 0.25 |
Ex. This is not from my exercise class, but this is an important thing that happened to me in February. When I was looking for some volunteer work to do, I was hoping to find some volunteer work that took advantage of the skills that I already have. And so I came across an organization called engine, which joins up peo... | Since I was four years old, I always had a dream of being a physician. And my community is a community that is in poverty, mostly farmworkers. My parents worked in the fields. They didn't have a high school education. I was really invested and dedicated to getting an education. I wanted to also make a statement to the ... | 0.75 |
Okay. So yesterday, I went to this meetup group. It's an art meetup group, basically for doing digital art with a bunch of people together in a coffee house, which was pretty nice. It's my first time there. Yeah, and I met some new friends, which is very good. I've never really done anything like that in my life, and I... | I attended an all-week event in another country. I didn't bring any friends, but that's perfectly fine. I got along with the other attendees extremely well, and I think I actually found 2 new friends. Everybody's so nice and inspired and driven by similar things as I am. My interests, taste in music, and spirituality a... | 1 |
Do. So, about I don\'t know, in 2013, I ran a five-mile race to raise money for cancer research. And afterwards, I went to a local place to eat that I hadn\'t been to before, and I decided to order the soup called Senkoco, and I didn\'t know what it was. But it sounded good, and it had chicken in it, so I ordered it. A... | About 6 months ago, I learned how to forage for food. It has been an eye-opening experience. I had no idea that there was so much food all around us that we simply pass by every day. It is kind of shocking to learn that there is so much plenty all around, and yet we live in deprivation.
I learned about it after I watc... | 0 |
This story may be repetitive, but we had a little issue with the setup of the computer. Here, it didn't take the whole story, so I'll start again. So, I wanted to talk about my little city garden. I have been replacing a lot of plants that were in my garden with native pollinator-friendly plants. It has been a lot of w... | I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska, and my specialty is in Risk Management. I spend a lot of time working with farmers and policymakers. I write papers to help improve the US Crop Insurance industry.
I grew up on a farm, and my dad told me to stay away ... | 0.5 |
Okay. So, I would like to share my story about losing weight and gaining weight. So, growing up, I wasn\'t sad. I was normal- normal weight in the normal average weight range. Maybe a little bit on the skinny, not skinny, a little bit on the less than average weight size because I really liked exercise- learning. I lea... | I hate being female in this society. I hate body standards. I hate society for making me grow up comparing my body to everyone around me, seeing only one body type to look up to in media. I hate that body types go in and out of trend. I hate that skinny is an accessory.
I hate that I grew up with family monitoring my ... | 1 |
Yeah. Well, I guess the story I want to tell is about how I went through higher education like undergrad and grad school. And now, I moved back home and I'm ready to transition to industry work. This is the first time I'm moving back home in years. I lived on campus during undergrad and then during grad school. I lived... | When I was in school, I wanted to be a doctor. I went to college, and I realized I actually didn't wanna be a doctor. I wanted to do something more in public health. And so, I went to graduate school, and I ultimately got a PhD in international relations and global health.
And then, as I got older, I realized everythi... | 1 |
Done. So, I am moving from my current location to where my girlfriend lives. And my plan was to send the boxes of my stuff to her place, that is her house. And she initially mentioned that "you really need to send those multiple boxes". Then we kind of figured it out. And the last time we talked about it, it was more h... | I made my girlfriend angry a few days ago. She ended up sending me a torrent of verbally abusive messages. Not wanting to deal with this treatment so late in the night, I stopped reading them. The next morning, they sent a message apologizing for their behavior. I took some time to take care of myself and accepted her ... | 0.5 |
Yeah. So, when I was in Arizona, my friend and I randomly decided to drive to LA. And I randomly decided to drive to San Diego. And you know, put the Robotics Club. And I went and met up with them at a brewery. And they make, like autonomous vehicles. It's like remote-controlled cars that drive themselves. It was reall... | Engineering was exciting to me because it was the creation process of going from an idea to "I've made this" or "this is a better way of doing it."
We opened up the directory of industrial designers, and we just started cold calling down the list to try to get interviews. We had just graduated from college, so we didn... | 0.5 |
My husband and I got married when we were both very young. We were halfway through college. We had met right before we started college. He had a football scholarship, and I thought that money was dumb. So I really wasn't very interested in him. But we had a mutual friend who introduced us, and he thought I was going to... | A few months ago at the Styx concert, he surprised me and proposed. After 13 years of being together, I actually never thought it would happen.
The song "Lady" started, and he gave his phone to a person we didn't know behind us. I thought that was really strange, but it didn't dawn on me that there could be any other ... | 0.75 |
Yeah, so actually, yesterday I always, whenever I go out with my mom, she\'s always super negative, I realized. And won\'t go to counseling, won\'t try to make herself better. And she\'s always on edge. So I always come into interacting with her, kind of on the defense because she\'s going to be super negative. She\'s ... | My mom has always been a good mom. She took care of 2 kids going to 2 different schools with one of them having half custody with her dad. When I was 5, my mom met my stepdad, and soon enough they had another boy. Up until this point, my mother had given no reason for me to dislike her. But this all took a turn for the... | 0.5 |
I have recently been going through a bit of a reckoning with a close friend of mine from college. So, we met 10-12 years ago. And he lives in a different city. And we haven't spent a ton of time together recently. Though we have spent a lot of time talking on the phone and recently we spent a week together traveling. A... | Today I talked with a few of my friends about the face reveal of a quite popular person and showed them a picture. Almost immediately, they started calling them ugly and compared them to people and characters who are usually seen as unattractive/memes. Personally, I cannot stand such behavior. It's okay to say, "Yeah, ... | 1 |
Yeah. I've been having a couple of really frustrating experiences at work with a specific person. Who I feel, like, is very sort of toxic in the way that they operate. But also, I don't know whether it's just, like, poor social skills or just a lack of care for others, a lack of empathy. They will set up meetings that ... | Today was a terrible day for me. My coworker, who we will call the big "W," is usually always mean to me. However, today she was the worst. It was our big Christmas party, and she micromanaged everyone at work today. She started openly complaining about only she was smart, only she did any real work, etc.
Everyone had... | 0.25 |
Okay. So, today, I wanted to have a doughnut, and I went to the donut shop. And the lady there gave me two donuts for the price of one. So, that was very nice because I got two donuts. | There's this woman that goes around town who sells beauty products, clothes, cleaning products, small appliances, and pretty much anything a small business can offer. I was paying for the product I bought from her, and she just randomly said I looked good in my leggings and I looked long-legged.
For someone who's been... | 0.75 |
So, basically, this is a story about how in high school, during the college application season, I guess during early applications, I applied to using a program. So I applied to different colleges, but I didn't end up getting into any of them. And looking at my friends who were all getting into their schools they wanted... | When I graduated from high school, I had some bumps in the road. I got into the University of Washington, and I had some financial difficulties there, and then ended up going back to community college.
Then I applied to the University of Washington chemical engineering program, and I was accepted. I did have some inte... | 1 |
I'm going to tell you about the time I moved when I was eight, maybe nine. I think it was in elementary school, and I think that's what got me into reading and learning. So I just started school, maybe finished first grade in the middle of second grade, so maybe I was only seven. We moved homes, so it was still in the ... | I just want to cry. I'm so absent-minded and I feel like it's ruined my life. I don't even know how to stop being absent-minded. I've never been able to pay attention in school at all. I always daydream, yawn, fall asleep, draw, and fidget at school. I'm bad at useful subjects like math and science. I scored low on eve... | 0.5 |
One experience I'd like to share is that of traveling as a lone person. On one trip to Spain, I lived there for several months without knowing anyone, but I had contacts, so I wasn't alone. And one morning, on my way someplace, it was a Sunday morning, and as I was walking down the street, I learned something about the... | I'm the first person out of four living generations to have left Mississippi. I didn't write when I was in Mississippi. I didn't perform. I didn't even know I had the capacity to do what I do now until I moved. I was never in an environment where that was encouraged or even understood.
No one asked me my story, and t... | 0.5 |
Okay, so today I want to talk about the kindness of strangers. I guess, yeah, I guess it\'s just been on my mind occasionally. About, it kind of relates to the theme of why I like to travel. So I don\'t know. So I guess, hold on. So I\'ve been thinking about the kindness of strangers, and I don\'t know why. But I have ... | Today, I was working my evening shift and I got an extra-large pizza delivered at my work for me and all of my co-workers to have something to eat. About 7:00 p.m., this woman came in and she had gotten two donuts. I saw her digging through her bag for change to pay me with. She had enough change to get the two donuts.... | 1 |
Yeah, so the story I\'m going to share today is about my family\'s move. So we used to live in Hino, Texas. And my favorite part about that house, besides my family, of course, was that on the front lawn, the sidewalk, there my sister and I have our handprints there in the cement. So they redid our sidewalk at some poi... | On July 9, 2019, I moved in with my Celia. This is kinda weird because this is the first time I have ever moved in with a partner. I have had partners where we would spend 10 straight nights together, but we never reached the point where we had a dresser or permanent spot for clothes/accessories. Walking through the do... | 0.25 |
So my story is about my feelings that got activated about the feelings of jealousy that got activated when I got to know that a friend of mine, who is younger to me, got a job. And I just feel that I am running behind in my life, certain aspects. And there are people, and people around me, who are like having the same ... | I have gone from a happy, vibrant kid to a sad, tired adult. My own mother has said she doesn't even recognize me anymore. "Where has my 'my name' gone?" is something she said this week.
I blame it on my parents. My family is very close-minded. Often times people in my class in middle school would ask me to go play wi... | 0 |
Yeah, I'm really excited about watching a movie tomorrow. It's about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb per se. They do things that are pretty interesting in this movie. It's the subject itself. It's very science-driven, and it's all about the atomic bomb and a biography of a pretty well-known legend. But the second part ... | I've never been a very big reader growing up. I've got a very short attention span, and as I read, it's very difficult for me to remember things I've read. A few years ago, while traveling in an airport, I picked up a book called Wonderland, by an author called Ace Atkins. I fell in love with the book and blew through ... | 0.5 |
So, I have a friend who recently lost his father due to a tragic car accident. And I heard this news on a day of going for dinner. I felt really bad for my friend, and I was so heartbroken because I know how kind and sweet of a person my friend is. So, I could see that although I haven't seen his father, I could see th... | Two years ago, my mom passed away. It was the worst day of my life, and a day I will never forget. It was very unexpected and traumatic. It was a Sunday morning, and I got the call from my dad who told me she had passed. I just remember screaming and not really being able to do much else. I told my husband, and we both... | 0.5 |
So, yeah. So basically, it turns out since I last told you about that person who just kind of showed up to the World Building class that I'm in, how I felt a little bit off about that because it was something that I waited three years to take and then never got in until now. So, it turns out that she also got in, even ... | A former first-year here and just failed physics. Well, more like no record, but it feels a bit frustrating. I'm a bit worried on how much it will affect me in the future, and I don't even know how I would deal with this if someone were to point it out.
Don't get me wrong, I think failing is a great learning opportuni... | 0.5 |
Okay. So this one is where I feel like I was in the wrong and analyzing it. So from my dad's side, I have a whole lot of anger and my mom's side is a short temper. As a kid, my mom was verbally abusive, physically abusive. When I was in second or third grade, I watched her pick up my sister by the throat and throw her ... | I have a friend B who I have known for around a year now, and her mom is the worst person I have ever met. Here are just some of the things she has done that really pissed me off.
B tells her mom everything. And then her mom tells my mom everything. Now my mother knows all about my problems, worries, and wishes. She c... | 0.25 |
Yeah, so I think something I\'ve been thinking about lately is this book that I\'ve been reading. It\'s called "The Way of the Wanderer," and basically, it\'s about a war between, I think, ten dogs. And one of the gods is the wandering God. And another god is the God of Law. And the God of Law is trying to become the o... | I was born in Kenya, my parents are Indian, then we moved to England when I was six. So I grew up in England, and this was before there was a big Indian community in England. So I had to try and figure out who I was. College was transformative for me. I hope when I teach, I hope that it's gonna be transformative for my... | 0.75 |
Is a quick story, but an important one. Because I have heretofore not been aware that there was a great deal of bannings of books in library school libraries. And I became aware of the many books that have been banned. A program that I watched called The View has a person on there who likes to. Every week she talks abo... | We have new neighbors, right next door. I've lived here 16 years, not the longest by far in this little area, but established. I own my home. I have planted many flowers, repainted it myself, and reroofed a formerly run-down rental.
The new neighbors put up a religious sign from the local hate church. You know, the ki... | 0.5 |
Okay. I went to the movies yesterday, and it was sort of interesting. It was a movie called "Jewels." And it\'s about an elderly man who has started to get memory issues. But one night he was asleep, and a small spaceship landed in his backyard. Sounds silly, but it was a real sweet story. It ruined his garden, and an ... | I heard this story where this kid, who has autism, could connect and share his experiences through Elsa when Elsa closes the door on Anna, and how she's feeling in the room. He could then communicate with his mom what he was going through.
And it was just things like that. We're gonna make sure we make the best movie... | 0.25 |
So today, I wanted to share a story about one of my friends from childhood. Her name was Tajong, and "Tajang" means kindness and sweetness in Korean. And just like her name indicates, she was a very nice and kind person.\n\nMy friend, when I was like eight or nine years old, and we were the same age, but she was much m... | My heart was broken. I don't know how to process this. I just received news today that E had passed. I am just so sad and numb. I can't believe she is gone. I am relieved for her but glad that she no longer has to be strong and brave. She can finally find peace. Selfishly, I wish she were still here.
I can't help but ... | 0.75 |
But one of the props mentioned a song that was meaningful for you, and I have one, nothing special, because I\'m sure that millions and millions and millions of people share this same exact experience. But when I was around 40 years old, the song "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac really spoke to me. I started to listen to t... | A few years ago, I had a bit of a scare. My appendix ruptured on tour, and I came close to dying. And it was the same week that my first song went into the top 20. After more than 20 years of making music, we had a song, "Say Hey I Love You." And I'm on this gurney being wheeled down to perhaps my death.
And I get th... | 1 |
Real life stories don't really have good starts, middles, and ends, especially if your day is kind of boring. My wife has been traveling for like the last week and a half, and she's coming home today within the next couple of hours. Actually, I got to go pick her up at the airport at midnight. So that's very exciting. ... | Honestly, I had a very strong fear of being infertile, but last week I got five positive tests because of a missed period. I am so excited. I love my fiancé so much, and I continue to love him more and more each day, and having his baby feels amazing.
When I told him, he said he's excited to be a family! We're obvious... | 0.75 |
So today is a very hot day, and it's been not very hot during the summer here in Connecticut. But all over the world, it's been very hot. Today, I was listening to a broadcast about Iraq and how they are very short on clean water coming from Greece and Turkey. Clean water is in short supply. And I really feel water is ... | Growing up in St. Louis, we were determined to leave as soon as we possibly can. After graduating school, I decided to come home. I could do like so many other people did, which is just move to somebody else's neighborhood or move to a nicer neighborhood and put on your blinders and say everything's fine here. I decide... | 1 |
I wanted to talk about my oldest daughter today. So today, at her school, they're having Grandparents Day, which is a really cool thing where they invite all of the kids' grandparents to come and eat breakfast with them. Grandchildren in the morning before school actually starts. They do like a nice little spread in th... | Recently, I went to a party celebrating my grandparents' 50th anniversary. I was expecting my immediate family, my grandparents, and a few others since not many family members were in town that I was aware of. However, when I reached the location of the party, I came to realize that it was more of a surprise party for ... | 0.5 |
So, I was trying to send my stuff as I\'m moving to my girlfriend\'s house, but my girlfriend objected to that, saying that her parents don\'t like me sending my stuff to her house. And if she was not clearly telling me why because she was like, "I\'ll be more hurt if I listen to that point." And now I am wondering why... | I made my girlfriend angry a few days ago. She ended up sending me a torrent of verbally abusive messages. Not wanting to deal with this treatment so late in the night, I stopped reading them. The next morning, she sent a message apologizing for her behavior. I took some time to take care of myself and accepted her apo... | 0 |
So, the story I like to share is one that happened yesterday night. It was my last day with my pottery studio. It's a tight-knit community. I'm really kind and supportive of each other. And every month, we have a potluck where people bring homemade pizzas, homemade pastries, and donuts and all these types of things. An... | 3 months ago, I moved out of my old town into a new city. I had lived in my college town for a year after graduating, and in total, I had lived there for 6 years. It's a small town, and all of my friends and people I knew had moved away. I finished a music degree and had applied to some graduate programs because I didn... | 1 |
Okay. So, unrelated to art, but last night I was going back to my car in the parking lot of A Whole Foods. As I was walking back, right as I was walking up to my car, the lady who was pulling in next to me rammed into it by accident. And I felt very frustrated because as I was dealing with that today because it's like ... | About three months ago, I was involved in a very serious car wreck. I was on my way home from work when a large white truck hit me from the side at an intersection. The truck ran a red light because they were falling asleep at the wheel. I never even saw the truck coming, so I was surprised when I was struck. It was ar... | 0.5 |
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