Cassidy Peterson

I believe we are all inherently self-centered. This isn't a bad thing; I think it is natural. We all have our own entire worlds to occupy our own minds, so there is hardly any room left to give thought and energy to everyone else's worlds sometimes. It's really easy to accept that we only have time to care for ourselves and the few who are close to us, and that everyone else is not our problem. However, I think we can all do better at counteracting our self-centeredness. It's not any one of...

I think it is human nature to compare ourselves to one another. We each do so differently, but we do do it. In our subconscious thoughts, we quickly evaluate everyone else as better or worse, popular or not, socially aware or weird, older or younger, smart or dumb, or mature or immature. I think we miss out on so many opportunities by relying on this evaluation to decide who we will welcome into our lives. This type of differentiation limits your life to such a narrow experience. When we...

When I was young, anytime that I would dislike something about myself that I thought was different, my mom would say, "no, I like it - it makes you unique". As a child, I thought those were lies from my mom to make me feel better. However, every year that I get older, her words become truer. Whether or not she meant to, my mother was training me to celebrate our differences all those years. She never hesitated to love every unique feature, whether or not others agreed and no matter what...