by Bela Johnson | Apr 16, 2013 | competition, healing, home, lifestyle, Uncategorized
There is nothing I can say that could possibly convey my feelings of sadness and horror at what happened at the Boston Marathon yesterday. The complexity of emotions, interplaying with thoughts almost too onerous to bear, needs to be worked out first, somehow. It is...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 21, 2013 | competition, happiness, inspiration, musings, philosophy, Uncategorized
I never wanted to be smart. It hampered social interactions with the most desirable element. No cute boys were in my ‘brain classes,’ and friends I had since grammar school began drifting away, dividing like so many cells in a petri dish. (Never mind that these same...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 19, 2013 | competition, lifestyle, musings, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
Growing up in a large family, competition was fierce. I learned how to aspire; often succeeding, especially when it came to academia in which I excelled. And although I didn’t grow up having to mandatorily don a skirt or restrict myself to half-court basketball like...
