Why are are these okay?

Some creative choices

It seems like everyone and their mom is in therapy these day s, and when you think about how terrible everything has felt for the past few years, it's definitely for the best. Therapy, while arguably a luxury, is an incredibly important tool for people who may be having a difficult time coping with mental illness or the pressures of simply being alive. Unfortunately, not all therapists are created equal. While seeking help for my own issues (beyond bullies who are telling me to quit my job here…

There is a lot of hostility towards some people pursuing a New Years' Resolution . It's a widely accepted view that lazy people use the new year as an excuse to work on themselves when they would never have otherwise. I don't completely agree with that; I think there are a lot of achievable goals you can set during this time of the year, but not all New Years' Resolutions are created equally. Some people set too high expectations for themselves, which leads o a lot of quitting. This especially…

Bleak

Pure insanity

Vital life skills

When cat rescuer @ellle_em was having a bad day, they turned to Twitter and made a very specific request. “Please reply to this tweet with an AITA written from the perspective of your cat and also include a photo of said cat I would appreciate this very much” tweeted @ellle_em. Boy oh boy did Twitter deliver. After @ellle_em got the ball rolling with some posts featuring a bunch of their lovely-looking rescues, other Twitter users got in on the joke and shared stories about their own mischievou…

We've all seen those memes about the moment the edible hits and you're blasting off to outer space. But what if you took the edible without actually knowing it would have psychoactive, trip-inducing properties? As marijuana and even shrooms become legal in some places around the country, these substances are being packed into some tantalizing and sometimes confusing formats. Putting magic mushrooms into a chocolate bar may be a way to ingest them pleasantly, but as is the case with weed gummies…

There's a bunch of reasons why Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, one of them being the fact that the Minecraft world is truly open. There's no wrong way to play—one can choose creative mode, in which the player can unlock all the different kinds of blocks available and build almost anything imaginable. Or the player can choose survival mode, where resources are scarce, predators loom, and the game's internal lore becomes more apparent. Anyone who's managed to kill the Ender…

It can be tough

Devious

Crazy times

When Love Actually came out in theaters, I had just turned fifteen years old. My friends and I were slight anglophiles who worshipped accented singers like Robert Smith and Damon Albarn, and watched period pieces after school. The star-studded cast of Richard Curtis ' Christmas film made a screening a no-brainer. Colin Firth? Hugh Grant? Alan Rickman? Emma Thompson? I mean, come on. All the big names. It was mandatory. We had to see it, so we did and boy, did we love it. Sure, some of the plotl…

Growing up my foodie Dad had a huge section of his bookcase that was dedicated to cookbooks. I'd be able to rifle through books about indigenous Colombian cuisine, classic French cookbooks, and gorgeously photographed tomes of food from the Levant. I did notice, however, that he rarely, if ever, used these books. It turns out my parents needed that section not because my dad loves cookbooks, but because people love giving them to him. I wonder what would happen if they bothered to ask what he w…

They're understandable