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The Top 5 Reasons Becoming an OV Will be the Best Decision You’ve Ever Made!

So for those who know me, you likely know that O-Week is one of my favourite weeks of the year; hence why I have now made it my job for the next 8 months! Yes, it is exhausting, and sweaty, but it is so amazing and worth it in every possible way. I have been a General OV (back in the day when that was a thing), a Residence Orientation Leader (or ROL, again, back when that was a thing), a Team…

Just some woe is me’s on this windy Thursday.  I hate how much I can let someone else affect my emotions and iverall mental health. It is my own doing and I would much like it to not happen anymore. Especially when someone’s actions are in no way hateful, or vindictive, but they can still make me completely crumble. I’m unable to rationalize how I feel which just adds to the frustration. I feel…

If You Don’t Have Something Nice To Say…

This is a rant I’ve been thinking about writing for a while but I actually have not had a second to think lately because of all these bloody assignments and midterms. So now I’m in a crank and don’t feel like doing work, so I’m going to do this instead. So here goes: Being conscious of how your actions impact another person is one of the most important things you could possibly do. It doesn’t…

*There will be plenty of pesky little typos in this because I wrote it on the bus/while walking (which is not safe. Don’t do it kids!) *Second note: This picture is what comes up when you look “Live life to the fullest” and it made me chuckle. Good ol’ Google! Due to the fact that most of my posts have been fairly low on the positive side and also the fact that I have done a complete 180 in terms…

A Golden Thinker (Apparently)

Haven’t written anything in a while so I figured maybe I’d see what things my brain can spill out tonight. In my recent volunteer training we talked about what kind of leader we are. There were different colours that were associated with a different kind of leading style. Orange was the more spontaneous “doers”, Green was the information and knowledge driven, Blue used emotions more to guide…

Change is not my friend..

Let’s take a moment to chuckle at this cat before I start ranting and being all negative… have you had time to chuckle?… Fantastic. Now, onto my whining: I do not like change. I’m not good at it. It always gives me large amounts of anxiety as I try to get my footing figured out again. I know that with change usually brings growth, and positive things and blah blah blah. But I am still quite…

I wrote this in my phone when I was in the middle of a very low moment. Helped me get through it a bit. Figured it gives a little look into what goes on in my brain. As I retype the words I wrote I can’t even recognize this person. It’s bizarre to look at my own ups and downs and see how black and white my moods can be. I can be at my lowest of lows and then be find later that day, but then…

It is 100% easier to give into sadness. Well, it is when you have turned sadness into a habit, which I believe I have over the past few years. In the long term, giving into being sad is exhausting; but that just makes it so much more appealing. You feel as though you lack the energy to pull yourself together and choose to be happy, so you take the easy way out and put on a frown instead. I have…