Jason Cooper is, professionally, an Online Community Coordinator for kaboom.org. Personally, he is a Detroit to DC transplant, and all around B.M.F. He secretly wants to be an internet celebrity.
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This is never being bratty. Never. I’ve done it and its always been a decision that made my life better.
Do you ever wonder whether you’d be better off walking instead of taking the bus? This chart will help you answer that question.
That’s why I work for a NPO cause I believe in. At least on my worst day, my most frustrating day, I’m happy because I’m not making a bunch of white men richer.
You know how everyone wants a MEANINGFUL LIFE. We’re supposed to have GOALS. And I’m not supposed to want just a job, I need a CAREER or a PURPOSE or whatever. Well I am here to tell you that in my smug over-educatedness with my high end faux fancypants job that I am over that life with a purpose shit.
I am almost to the point that I want a perfectly mundane 9 to 5. Why? Because then I’d have time for an actual life, and I wouldn’t be lying awake at night with anxiety over useless shit that at the end of the day only serves to make some old assholes more money.
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John Krasinski [Contact Music] (via peterwknox)
My story is a bit different, but his advice is still pretty good. Don’t compare your results to your friends.
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Study, via Are Risky Teens Really Just Horny Little Adults? | The Awl
I often looked back at my teenage life as fairly mundane. I never considered the drinking, drugs, sexual, and criminal activity I did as a teen to be anything other than normal teen behavior. I never thought I was ever in any real danger of getting, so in my mind, it didn’t feel high risk.
Looking back, it sounds like the stuff I was doing was actually kind of crazy and out of the ordinary. My experience wasn’t the norm like I though, but the exception.
I wasn’t a dork in high school. I was cool as hell. Huh.
Don’t forget boring.