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RIP Alan Rickman

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   How do you express the loss of someone that you never knew yet their life molded you? Do you cry? Do you work? Do you wear black? How do you truly express the loss of someone that you respected even though you don’t know them? I think in our lives there will always be people whom we never meet that can change our lives in the most profound of ways. Celebrities, while most of us will never meet them we look up to them, we love them, we hate them, we revere them, and we respect them. They are thrown into a light because of their talent and we hunger for that, we crave to watch someone because we enjoy being entertained. We latch on to certain people because of the characters they play or the person they represent themselves to be. When they are hurt we are hurt. When they are happy we are happy. Why do we do this? Because they shape our lives and become a part of us so much more than many admit. Someone truly talented can become a deep seated figure without us realizing it a...

New Year Same Me

HAPPY NEW YEAR! At least that's what we say at the beginning of a new year. A lot of people around this time of year are depressed because they just went through the holiday season and were either extremely high from all the excitement and happiness and now that is starting to die down and winter is setting in or they were unable to do anything for the holidays and have just had that extra time to sit and be lonely. Either way going into a new year is rough for many many people and it is really really easy to fall into that winter depression because what is the next huge commercial holiday? That's right it's Valentine's day and you all know how I feel about that particular one. The reason I bring this up is because I personally believe a lot of the problem is this whole new year's resolution bull hockey. Resolution to me is such a finite word and has developed into this pretty negative force that puts so much pressure on people therefore resulting in an awful ...