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Stuck Again

Sep 1, 2017

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in Home, Mental Health, Wisdom & Self-Discovery

I know I haven’t posted in a while and that’s honestly because I have not been writing enough. I was sifting through my journal today and came across an entry I wrote in January when I was battling with what I believe to be some form of depression though I’ve never been properly diagnosed. The…

A Wake-Up Call

May 25, 2016

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Mariana Rodrigues Cabral

in Austin, Texas, Travel & Adventure

Candid thoughts from a solo trip to Austin, Texas, during SXSW My boyfriend of a year and I broke up about a month before spring break in 2016. The loss of him in my life shattered my reality. I became numb and indifferent. I lost sight of my responsibilities, drank too much, and started to…

Drifting

Jan 5, 2015

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Mariana Rodrigues Cabral

in Poetry

I’m still running low on exuberance, wasting youth in suspended motion. My yearnings remain unchanged and the outcomes fail to please. When thirst is unquenchable because you have made it so And it seems the Moon no longer responds though you ask her where to go.

Where’s My “Personal Legend”?

Sep 29, 2014

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Mariana Rodrigues Cabral

in Home, Life Purpose, Wisdom & Self-Discovery

I’m currently reading this book called “Like the Flowing River” by Paulo Coelho. I found it it in a box of things my parents had stored away in the office. It was an old gift to my dad from a friend of his that had been gathering dust for years. At first, when I started reading…

Daughter

Sep 10, 2014

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Mariana Rodrigues Cabral

in Home, Relationships, Wisdom & Self-Discovery

I took a much needed long walk around my local pond not too long ago. I had begun that day sulking about not knowing what my particular path in life was (typical 20-year-old bullshit). My plan for the day at that point had been to eat and sit on my ass. Seeing me like this,…

Tag: life

Stuck Again

A Wake-Up Call

Drifting

Where’s My “Personal Legend”?

Daughter