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"No Man is An Island"

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                   "No man is an island, we can be found. No man is an island let your guard down. You don't have to fight me, I am for you. We're not meant to live this life alone." From the time we exit the wombs of our mothers and enter planet earth we are dependent on people to sustain our lives. Babies are born with a need to be nurtured, cared for, and protected. People tend to forget, but even as adults we still need nurturing, caring, and protection from those around us. A study was done on adolescents that were abandoned by one or both parents at a young age. Studies showed that these children grew up with more insecurities, struggled with depression, and were more afraid to let people into their lives compared to those not abandoned. We need people/family/love to make it through this thing called life. No man is an island.            We will all encounter a heartbreak, disappointment or a back-stab at some point in life. As human beings we are perfec

Your Purpose Lies Where Your Passions Begin.

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Are you currently in a place in life where you feel stagnated? Not moving forward, nor backwards, just stuck. Are you feeling almost purposeless? An average human being lives 25,915 days. That is approximately 71 years, 621,960 hours, 37,317,600 minutes, or approximately 2,239,056,000 seconds. In my opinion, that is a good amount of time to be on this earth. So I ask you, what are YOU going to do with your time? In the book, The Purpose Driven Life, author Rick Warren states,  “Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life."  There was a point in my life when I was unsure of my purpose. I was 17 years old and as a youth, I was aware that I still had a lot of time left on this earth. I was anxious to leave for college in a few months, anxious for freedom, but al