Author: thepathtoworthy

Have you ever heard the term brutal honesty? Of course, you have. We all have, under a variety of circumstances, from sundry sources, with totally different implications. Sometimes the people who care about us (purportedly or actually) disclaimer with that phrase before they reveal something that might be hard to hear. You know what that… Continue reading An Unnecessarily Painful Truth

I went out for drinks with a new girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. Before I eased into the evening, I was flooded with feelings that were simultaneously familiar and foreign. The familiarity of my reaction was clearly a result of age-old societal doctrine. The thought that I was swimming through uncharted territory emerged from… Continue reading Too Cool for School.

I was speaking with a friend recently about an injury he had whereas he advised me that it was mostly scar tissue “holding him together” in that particular area of his body. Since I analyze and overthink nearly everything, this sentiment really resonated with me. I thought how most people are held together by scar… Continue reading Scars: Friend or Foe?

I have been having nightmares over the last few weeks. Well, I am calling them nightmares because they were disturbing thoughts plaguing my sleep that have woken me from slumber. If I am being totally real, I find them to be less on the bad dream spectrum and more on the ‘purging negative thoughts that… Continue reading What a Nightmare…

This lead-in is a familiar one because I am at heart a book worm, and therefore, truly delighted and inspired by the written words of others. So it should come as no shock that I was pretty inspired recently after finishing (drum roll….) a book. Interestingly, this particular novel described one woman’s experience surviving a… Continue reading Getting Through “It” 101

I was recently sent an article to read that near instantly inspired this week’s post. Interestingly, the article was about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not relationships and self-reflection. Before you get crazy, thinking I’m taking a turn for the political, let me assure you that I’m not. Just bear with me… Continue reading Quiet Like A…

It was December 2001 and I had graduated from college a few months earlier than my compatriots with the intention of pursuing time abroad. Given that it was just a few short months after the horrifying and tragic nightmare that was 9-11, the airport was pretty quiet; particularly the international terminal. As a bit of… Continue reading Traveling Intelligently

I think I have shared the following sentiment before, but even if I have it bears repeating. You cannot control other people’s behavior, but you can control how you respond to their behavior. Perhaps of equal import but perhaps more challenging to accept, it doesn’t really matter why people do the things they do. I… Continue reading Just Give Me a Reason…or Not…

I was thinking about what to write this week and it occurred to me that after Red Flags Parts I and II, there actually exists a Part III. Well I suppose there are as many parts as I wish, depending on how I want to approach the topic. What I really mean is that there… Continue reading The Aftermath (Red Flags Part III)

I want to start this post with an honest and difficult statement: some of the better-looking men I dated were pretty terrible humans. I want to clarify that statement by explaining that I am not at all suggesting that good-looking people are not good people. Furthermore, I didn’t take a survey or gather a consensus.… Continue reading Attraction: Surrealism at its Finest