Tag: connect

I was very happy with my family in Sweden, but deep down inside, I have always wanted to connect more with my roots

Keywords: adopted from vietnam , adopted to sweden , denise sandquist , finding my mother , happy adoptee , intercountry adoptee voices , intercountry adoption , lived experience of adoption , living in my birth country , never give up searching , post reunion , the best gift of all , transracial adoption , voices of adoptees

This experience has completely changed my life and the person I am today. I’m forever grateful to all of the people who helped me during this amazing journey.

https://intercountryadopteevoices.com/2021/01/01/reflective-memories-finding-my-vietnamese-mother

I wish that someday, somewhere, we’ll be able to understand each other as father and son

Keywords: Noah’s Entries , reddit repost

I go to the store and I see that fathers and their sons are able to connect well or their mothers connect well with their daughters. For me, I don’t know if I have that with my dad. I feel like that connection doesn’t work out at all. I don’t know why anymore. For the longest time, I strived to understanding what it means to connect with my dad. He’s tech savvy and I’m not that tech savvy. I know enough to understand how computers work and a little extra, but not as much as he does. What he talks about on a day to day basis just doesn’t interest me but it does to him. We’re like polar opposites and I hate that.

https://noahsmindinanutshell.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/what-i-wouldnt-do-for-that-connection

Community Starts at Home

community , community starts at home , family , how to be a changemaker , impacting the world , life advice , making change , where community really starts , where to make change

Bayance's avatar Bayance

Hey girl hey. And boy.

My mom and I were talking about giving back to the community yesterday and it went something like this.

Me: My old teacher was telling me about the number of refugees that are filling the school and the recent ones that don’t know how to read and write. She wants to accommodate for everyone but it’s super hard teaching now that there are people with different levels of ability.

Mom: Ah, the new Syrians that escaped the borders. It’s definitely been tough for them.

Me: Yeah, I want to help. But I have school to attend and it’s hard tutoring because it’s a far drive. Maybe I can start with my own neighbourhood. And just volunteer and tutor math and English in the summer. A lot of the refugee parents came here to give their kids an education too but it’s hard with the language…

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Why it’s okay to let go of people as you grow

arguments, change, friends, Friendships, growing up, happy

Generation Plymouth's avatarTales of the Twenty-Somethings

I’ll be the first to admit that change is something I find difficult. Perhaps the fact that I’ve known most of my best friends for over a decade (and I’ve become so used to their constant support, advice and friendship in that time) plays a role in this. I enjoy meeting new people and forming new relationships, however I have become very accustomed to knowing my closest friends will always be there. And I am so very lucky for that.

I find the concept of people growing apart a scary one, because I’m used to sharing my memories of being ten years old with the same girls I’ll meet up for cocktails with now. Even though I’ll always be grateful for that, I’m starting to become aware of the fact that people do change. We’ve all got to grow, mature and find our place in this world as adults, and…

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Happiness Is Success

connection, cooperation, development, environment, expectations, happiness, Humanity, Success

zsolthermann's avatarEntering The Force-Field

Question: Do you agree with the adage ‘happiness is success’?

Answer: Yes, Happiness is the sign, the “jackpot” of success.

Happiness is a positive feedback, result of fulfilling an all-important goal, fulfilling a great yearning, need.

And since we are social, emotional creatures, the greatest possible happiness we achieve is when we purposefully build positive, mutually supportive and mutually fulfilling Human interconnections in special, closed environments, “laboratories”. There methodically everybody aims at bringing happiness only to the others, above and despite our inherently selfish, egoistic, subjective inclinations using a special, practical educational method.

Then the vibrating tension, resistance in between instinctive egoism and attempted, fulfilled love and bestowal towards others magnifies the happiness achieved, makes us infinitely more sensitive to the positive emotional impressions we receive from our connections!

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