Matt Powers
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Matt Powers
5 Ways People Try To Rain On Your Parade—And How To Avoid It
When people feel threatened by your confidence, they’ll do anything and everything to knock you down a peg. This was never clearer to me than it was last weekend, when my former best friend Kevin threw his 26th birthday party….
I’m A Mexican Millennial And I’m Voting For Trump
My grandpa and his 10 siblings are first-generation Americans who grew up dirt-poor on a farm in Torrance, California. His parents came from Mexico legally.
New York State Psychiatry and Canon Inc. Caught in Disturbing Malpractice Suit
This was hardly an isolated incident; thousands of young men and women have taken to the streets – cameras in hand – to protest against the New York State Psychiatry Association.
5 Things That Should’ve Improved By The 21st Century
Voice mail: why are we still doing this? You can bet your sweet ass I’m not listening to it. In fact, I almost don’t even want to call you back.
5 Reasons Summer Is The Best Season
Your boss gives everyone the day off, runs shirtless through the sprinklers, gets fired, and you get promoted.
I Found Out My Girlfriend Was Sleeping With My Best Friend: This Is What I Learned
I needed to see their pain and sorrow, feel them clutching to their humanity so I could forgive them, but — unfortunately — I never gave myself that chance.
The 4 Stages Of Love And Loss In Poems
I smoke to put my mind into stasis
I need to erase us
I need to wash my sheets of your traces until your memory is faceless
3 Indirect Ways Guys Tell You They’re Not Interested
2. Don’t let her establish an inside joke.
Feminists, You Have The Power To Stop ISIS
Why do I call on Feminists? Because according to a loophole, ISIS believes if a woman kills them, they wont go to heaven and receive 72 virgins, but rather will burn in hell for eternity.
3 Reasons I Stopped Taking Antidepressants
Do antidepressants really work? The jury is still out on this.
8 Imaginary Guys Talk About What Really Turns Them On
What really turns guys on? I didn’t ask eight guys for the answer. Here’s what they didn’t really say.
I Remember You Like Yesterday
Part of me thinks I’ll never love someone as much as I loved you, because I didn’t know what I was doing, I’d never felt it before so I dove in. I never told you, though. I never said, “I love you,” because I wasn’t sure if you loved me back until you told me with tears in your eyes that you didn’t, and you were sorry.
3 Reasons Why I Can’t Smoke Weed Anymore
1. Panic Attacks
Ranking The Academy Awards’ Best Picture Nominees
The Academy Awards are right around the corner and I’m sure theaters will rerelease some of the nominees. Lucky for you, I’ve ranked them in descending order so you don’t waste your time.
How I’ve Learned To Be Alone And Comfortable
No one ever tells you what it’s like to be alone. One day it happens and we adjust to solitude as a right of passage. Days spent lying on the grass and weekends spent lying to our parents replaced by evenings spent distracting or drowning a restless mind into complacency.
Lifting Weights Ruined My Relationship
That whole time she was only going to the gym with me because I unknowingly made her self-conscious, because she thought I was judging her physique when in my heart of hearts I wasn’t.