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• Do you ever feel like a slave to silly little obsessions? posted (1 year) ago
  I know I say ’silly little’, because that’s what they should be. In truth they&#…

• So, I’m getting my hair dyed this Thursday… posted (1 year, 8 months) ago
  I was going to get it done black and blonde, but the dark-violet I’ve got in right now is to…

• I finally figured out what I want to do, and it’s now I realise that it’ll be pretty impossible.. posted (1 year, 9 months) ago
  You know that age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Well, after …

• Coursework + Fear Of Failure= One explosive cocktail. posted (1 year, 9 months) ago
  Tick-Tick-Tick-Boom. It’s twenty past midnight where I live. School today. Myself and my Sc…

• I’m at a loss for words. posted (1 year, 11 months) ago
  No that isn’t some clichéd phrase, expressing shock or disappointment. I’m literally at a…

• I am fully aware that I am a horrible person. posted (1 year, 11 months) ago
  I can pretend not to feel the guilt. I can look at my sick mother, and shut off her attempts at gu…

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GinInTeacups's Top (2) Replies by other users' votes

• (1 vote) Which is better — talking or listening?
  

  I think the basic idea is, Listen when someone’s talking, talk when someone’s listening. You need to do both to make a conversation, don’t you?
  
  It’s important to speak out and put your opinions across. If you have problems you need to be able to communicate it to someone. And also, it’s all very well listening to someone elses issues but how are you really going to help them if you don’t open your mouth to give them advice?
  
  I think talking gets a bad reputation because words cause alot of conflict. A word placed wrongly or misinterpreted, or even intentionally cruel words can cause huge arguments even if this is not what the speaker set out to do.
  
  - written 1 year, 9 months ago – voted for by dead-flowers

• (1 vote) Do most people take kindness for weakness?
  

  Thinking about it, I reckon any personality trait that’s on the extreme side of a spectrum is viewed as a weakness by someone or other. Too modest - too vain, Too Smart - Too Dumb, Too Introverted - Too extroverted, too kind - too cruel etc.. Unless you’re one of the monochrome people who are never /too/ anything, anyone can take an aspect of you and call it a weakness.
  
  The way people perceive others personality depends on their own, surely?
  
  If you’re the type of person who’ll abuse peoples kindness you’ll start to see it as a weakness.
  The type of person who appreciates kindness will see it as a strength.
  
  Unfortunately I reckon there are less of the latter around these days…
  
  - written 1 year, 9 months ago – voted for by neujersey

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• Is the dark side of the force really better than the light side?
  

  tbh the dark side are well overdue a win if you ask me… any day now, just you wait (:
  - written 11 months, 3 weeks ago

• Is the dark side of the force really better than the light side?
  

  I hear the dark side has a better pension plan.
  - written 11 months, 3 weeks ago

• Do you ever feel like a slave to silly little obsessions?
  

  I am currently obsessed with the television show ‘Merlin’ and all the associated fan fiction (You’d think I’d pick something “cool” to get obsessed with, but no). I’m not sure you’d have heard of it. It’s a pretty new show on the BBC. I really do enjoy being part of this little baby fandom, because everything is all pretty and new and it hasn’t been over taken with thousands upon thousands of tagalong fangirls. It’s just that I spend more time reading and writing about the show than I do writing essays for school, which isn’t great.
  The thing is I don’t want to take a total break from the fandom, because I’m afraid when I return there’ll be so many new people and the fandom’ll be so big I wont be able to make my way back in without being overlooked. And I guess that shouldn’t be important to me, but it kinda is.
  - written 1 year ago

• My friend’s mom has breast cancer!
  

  Whatever you do, don’t try overly hard to be sympathetic. What she needs from you is to be a friend. I always found it even more upsetting when people tried to tip-toe around me.
  
  Help her to focus on the more positive things in life, but make sure she knows that if she does get very upset, you’ll listen. Other than listen, you can’t do much else. As much as we’d all like to be able to make things completely better, it’s not going to happen.
  Try and keep her optimistic about it.
  Treatment for breast cancer is getting more and more successful, and believe me I’d know. My mother has just finished all of her chemo and radiotherapy and she’s well on her way to being completely better, even if it has been a rough road :]
  - written 1 year, 8 months ago

• So, I’m getting my hair dyed this Thursday…
  

  >.< I’m sorry everyone, I’m still going to dye my hair tomorrow.. ‘Though if it ruins me, I’ll give you permission to chorus together with the “Told you so”’s… Thanks anyway :]
  
  Moogan, thank-you, I found your advice particularly useful from one hair-dye addict to another. I’ve bought a leave-in-conditioner especially for dyed hair, which seems to have helped a bit in just one wash..
  
  I’m also planning on getting a pretty short cut, which I think may help a bit seeing as my hair gets a heck of a lot stronger the nearer it is to the roots.
  - written 1 year, 8 months ago

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