My Search for a Purpose

Alright. So it's almost the end of 2016 and I'm almost 19 years old. Wow. Both of those things kinda freak me out, because not only does it feel like the year went by so fast, but also, in the slow moments, it seemed like 2016 was the worst. Of course this post is going to heavily rely on having lost a best friend recently, but sort of not recently, y'know. This is something that I really feel like sharing because I just feel like it's extremely important to talk about. But first, I'd like to say sorry for really slacking on this blog, but honestly, I feel like this blog is really going to drift in and out of my life more often than it's going to be consistent. And that'll be okay, because that means I'm focusing much more on quality  over quantity, and I know that I would much rather appreciate that over anything else. Here we are. 2016. Sophomore Year of College. Love Yourself 2.0. So seriously. Love yourself, please. Like I can't stress

I realized that this post was going to be unhealthy, unnecessary, and very triggering. So I decided not to do it...

Happy Saturday!... not really Also... Happy President's Day Weekend! So this post might be a pretty obvious post at first, but I still hope that you'll get a message out of it anyway. Now I know this message is late and that's mainly because I can never get my shit together in time for past Jamal to be happy with present Jamal. But, you know what? That's okay. This blog is meant to be a comfortable environment for me; a place where I can escape when all the stresses of the world are weighing down on my shoulders. And sometimes that's 2:30 in the morning after you already missed your personal deadline for a post. Yeah... that's my life right now. Just warning you that the style near the end of this post is symbolic. Anyway. Needs vs. Wants. What exactly does that  mean? The first time I thought of writing this post, I was actually in a Skype call with one of my anchors... my person, actually, that went from about 4 to 7 in the morning on a Saturda

Happy Saturday! Okay, so I know that I've been super lazy lately with the blog stuff, but I assure you that I was spending my time wisely studying and then hanging out with friends and family over vacation. It's been such a long while... I'm very sorry for that, but hey! It's 2016, a new year, and with that (after two weeks into the new year and over a month of hiatus) a new post! Yay! I wrote this like two weeks ago omg I'm so sorry that I suck. I know I'm the worst.  I also suck because I wanted to make this post about 10 weeks ago. Whoops. I know I reeeeaaaallllly suck.  But let's get relevant and begin this post, shall we? 'Ohana & Anchors. What does that mean? Well I mean the first part of that is probably really obvious... y'know the Hawaiian term made popular by the  2002 Disney Movie Lilo & Stitch:  "'Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind... or forgotten." (Did that date placement make