Kirsten Chen

“When we make decisions, we always get reactions,” he said.

On July 14th, 2014, Kacy Catanzaro made history for absolutely crushing it on American Ninja Warrior (ANW) as the first woman in the show’s history to qualify for national finals in Las Vegas.

Allow me to explain.

Ah, yes: money and relationships.

A little while back, I wrote a Thought Catalog article that argued against some negative misconceptions people have about living in NYC.

There tend to be a lot of misconceptions surrounding what life is like in any major city – especially, New York. Here are a few of the negatives and why they’re really not so bad, after all.

This year, even more than most, we are grateful for a Jersey Summer.

Sure, The Hangover and Britney Spears make it seem like a not-so great decision, but is it really so bad to get hitched on impulse while intoxicated and chock-full of illegal substances?

Because if you didn’t fall madly in love with your middle school/high school/college crush to this song or buy a black studded belt and immediately proclaim yourself as “emo” upon first listen, then you are either a dirty, filthy liar, a sociopath with no regard to human emotion, or too young/old for this song to be relevant. That’s it, hands down, no exceptions.

Some days, there’s just no better way to put it: work sucks and we can’t wait for the weekend.

The most popular frustration triggers consist of a multi-pronged attack of petty annoyances in a short time-frame, your overbearing mother taking one too many jabs at your emotional psyche on the wrong day or your weird, craigslist roommate simply being present, yet again. Like, don’t they have anywhere else to be?

You will realize that you are, indeed, growing up and you aren’t quite sure how you feel about it. You’re still not the “grown-up” you envisioned all adults were as a kid.