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Fifty (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Freely make mistakes I used to hate driving to places I have never been before. Even when Mr. Tom-Tom is directing me and telling me how to get where I wanted to go safely, I would still get so tense and worry about missing my way or my …
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Forty-Nine (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Your Future is so bright A year or so ago I found some of my old journals from high school. In my journals I talked about my crushes and how I “super-duper” crushed on this guy, but I was only “minorly crushing” on this other guy. It was …
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Forty-Eight (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) You never stop thinking The other day I was listening to a podcast about Lays potato chips. Keep in mind that I stopped snacking a few months ago when I learned how snacking messes with our digestive process. But there I was listening to this podcast at 8:24am, …
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Forty-Seven (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Transparency and Opaqueness Her: How was your weekend? Me: It was good. I spent some time with my family, which I really enjoyed because I hadn’t seen them in so long. I also got to read this really good book, have you heard of it it’s called… blah …
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Forty-Six (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Be patient with life We all have plans and goals, we all have places we would like to be by certain times. I remember my roommate from College would always say how she wanted to start having kids by 24, and she wanted to be married by 23. …
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Forty-Five (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Please Remember my name “Wow that’s a beautiful name! Can I call you ‘O?’” “No please call me Osayi.” It doesn’t matter how challenging a person’s name is, don’t try to make up a pet name for them. If they can take the effort to learn and remember …
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Forty-Four (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Learn to Light up A few years ago, one of the ladies at my church pulled me aside and asked me whether I was interested in one of the guys at the church. She said that she noticed that I lit up whenever he was around. She was …
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Forty-Three (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Have time for people One Sunday, not that long ago church had ended and I was in a rush. I’m not really sure where I was in a rush to, or whether I was just pretending to be in a rush so I did not have to look …
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Forty-two (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Make new friends I made a new friend (at work) last week. I just happened to run into her and I asked her what her name was. The next day I casually asked her what she was interested in, and we struck up a conversation. I even …
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Forty-One (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Reconnect with Old friends. The other day I went to watch a movie (Midnight in Paris) with a group of people, but only two of us showed up. This guy (let’s call him G) and I. Everything went pretty well. He paid for the movies, I paid for …
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