Eleni Zoe

The Real Reasons I’m Not Dating

{+ Nick Papakyriazis}  A few weeks ago, my mother found me in a moment of abject self-pity. “I-I-I don’t get it. Men just don’t wa-wa-wa-want me.” I said it without thinking. It’s one of those automatic thoughts I have on a regular basis so it didn’t sound odd coming out of my mouth. My mother, [...]

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In defense of women who want relationships

I worry, sometimes, I may come across as a desperately single woman whose sole purpose in life is to find a boyfriend. As if I believe that a man would somehow complete me in a way only men can; as if the approval of some guy, by sticking his tongue in my mouth, would suddenly [...]

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Be like you

I could list a dozen adjectives that would convince everyone and their therapist that I have a strong sense of self, but I won’t. This is not an existential crisis. I know who I am. I just don’t do a very good job of revealing that person outside or loving that person inside. A few weeks back, [...]

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Light

{+}  I had a choice to make today. I could have spent the day vividly unhappy crying in bed and using my duvet cover as tissue paper or…well, not do that.  As with most either/or choices, this was false. More often than not, we aren’t faced with only two mirror opposite decisions. There are hundreds of [...]

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20 Mantras to Live Life on Your Own Terms

{+ Our Paper Shop} I spent the better part of this morning reading (& re-reading) all 20 entries for the Stratejoy Essay Contest.  Let me remind you of the prompt. It was: “How do you live life on your own terms?” Life may be long, but we don’t have the time to learn all the [...]

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Note to self

{+Joe Catholic}

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Other people’s love stories: “Being unremarkable is pretty amazing.”

Remember when all the love stories around me (the real ones) were loud, highly charged and  borderline psychotic. People told me it’s only because the quiet love stories aren’t interesting enough to share. It made me want to cry out FOUL and tackle society to the ground. But then a reader sent me her love [...]

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What I Know About Uncertainty

Anyone who has suffered a major loss in their life will tell you they’re scared of being happy. You’ve heard this, right? It’s not really fear of joy, it’s that all these people, all of us who have suffered loss or a tragedy of some kind, we remember the day before the loss, or we [...]

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