Beauty magazines set an example for young girls everywhere, and living in a nation very strongly influenced by that- I started wearing makeup by the time I was 12. The boys in my class always made me feel very low pointing out that I had pimples and looked like a pizza face. This type of criticism only made me want to cover up my face even more, and I actually resented my beauty. How could someone make you feel so low? Words like that really stuc...

Just as Barbra Streisand sang in the movie, Funny Girl, people do really need people. We take walks down the streets in our neighborhoods and cities, and something that every walk we take has in common, is that we breathe when we do so. It's not that we breathe just air- but it's the feeling of meaning that we breathe. It's in everything we inhale and everything we exhale. We thrive for our meaning, and we find that in each other. That is what we...

The perfect man is tall, dark, and handsome. And somewhere he is at a highly intellectual party, waiting to take advantage of the new girl. That girl that believes so much in true love, that she looks to new experiences to find it; that she will do whatever it takes to become accepted by him- if it means to indulge in something totally against her "unreasonably" high standards. But if that is the case, then is she not the perfect girl? Because on...