I’ve loved the idea of social justice ever since the first time I saw Judge Judy.  For the first time ever, ignorant people were finally getting their comeuppance – they were finally “ruing the day”. Perhaps it was because I had been so brazenly sold out as a child by my siblings, or simply my natural predisposition to be judge-y – but Judge Judy was an awakening for me. She was the liberator that showed me a world where blatant stupidity could finally result in an accepted form of human public shaming. Here are a list of ten things I dislike that I think should have a social price tag attached to them.

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We grow up rolling our eyes at cliches passed down from previous generations. In my ever fading youth, my eyes have rolled so far back into my head I swear I’ve pulled an optic muscle. And it’s only by getting older myself that I’m now starting to understand the wisdom in all those sayings I used to dread. Recently, I had a conversation with an amazing twenty-something girl. She is so much more “together” than I ever was at 25, but when she spoke, I felt like I was listening to myself from 5 years ago - worried, uncertain, and anxious. I felt like someone’s ghost of Christmas future, except in a good way - not in the fiery coffin way. I felt like I was seeing myself through the eyes of some of my friends and mentors who are five years older than me: still unnecessarily worried, uncertain, anxious...but way less than five years ago. 

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There are three things I hate: surprise birthday parties, wedding showers, and baby showers.  You can further generalize that I hate any and all occasions meant to “shower” someone with “love”, especially when it’s not me.  By the end of this post, I hope to demonstrate how awful all of these events are, why I’ll never go to another as long as I can keep coming up with excuses, and provide some examples of social obligations I’d like to see popularized in the future.

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Meditation has become one of my favourite things, and one of the only things I’ve been able to consistently do on a daily basis. It is literally sitting with things - your thoughts, emotions, reactions, bodily sensations, opinions, judgements, you name it. Sitting with it and letting it all marinate has been one of the best takeaways and applicable life skills I’ve been able to build into my life. And although I’m far from being where I one day want to be, I have truly never felt more grounded and happy to be in the world, all thanks to the practice and process of sitting with these four things…

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Having recently been laid off from my corporate job, I’ll be perfectly honest: I’m not entirely certain that I’ll be able to fool anyone else in Corporate America to believe in me again. Mainly because my personality is ridiculous and over the top, and it shows all over social media. There’s no hiding when you are a chronic oversharer. It wouldn’t surprise me if prospective future employers audited my online presence and questioned whether I’d be an unnecessary distraction to actual real world adult things including numbers, and so forth. I supposed that’s just a risk their going to have to take.

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All of us, at one point or another, have a ‘breaking’ moment. It’s the point where your identity clearly breaks and what used to be ceases to, well, be. It could be the loss of a loved one, a break up, a falling out, the loss of sight or limb, or maybe your kid just moved out of the house for good. Whatever it is, it’s how your crisis starts. How your crisis ends is by realizing it’s not a crisis at all.

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