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http://thoughtcatalog.com/david-cain/2013/10/6-helpful-reminders-for-the-overwhelmed-person/ 6 Helpful Reminders For The Overwhelmed Person OCT. 30, 2013 By DAVID CAIN One maddening tendency of any small electronic device is that whenever the battery is low, it wastes most of its remaining power beeping and flashing to tell you that battery is low. Similarly, the human body comes with many self-defeating features. For example, whenever you’re low on oxygen, say while trying to recover your electronic device from the bottom of a public pool, the body goes into panic mode, raises the heart rate and burns away what little oxygen you have to work with. The mind exhibits this kind of foolishness too. In has a cruel habit of misplacing its wisdom whenever you need it most. There are certain truths I really need to remember when I’m in a panicky state, which is exactly the time they are hardest to remember. So you may want to bookmark these gentle reminders, because the next time yo...

http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2013/10/most-things-are-best-when-theyre-imperfect/ Most Things Are Best When They’re Imperfect OCT. 29, 2013 By BRIANNA WIEST I don’t know what perfect is. I don’t know what it means to me anymore, so I won’t even pretend to know what it means to anybody else. But I do know that there are conventions of perfection that people will largely disregard as societal nonsense and then there are the things that we have attached ourselves to. The things in which we believe we’re incomplete without. That in their imperfect state they are elusive to us. That our lives can only begin when they are there, and there in just the way we picture ourselves most content with them. And I know that these things rarely come to stay. We spend too much time reaching, having faith that conditional things will hold up our sense of purpose. I say purpose rather than happiness because I think that’s what we’re really getting at here. Happiness is good, ...