One of the worst emotions to feel is guilt. It fills your stomach with sand and molasses, creating an indescribably viscous and heavy feeling in your gut. If there was a feeling opposite to butterflies in your stomach, guilt would be its most appropriate placeholder. Almost worse is the want…

Identity is in a constant ebb and flow. Our identities go through evolutions from from grade to grade, from class to class, from year to year. There are constant influences to identities, whether they are as trivial as a hug or as transformative as a homicide. The most interesting aspect…

The idea of pride has been redesigned in an empowering way by the LGBTQ+ community. While still synonymous in some contexts to cockiness, being prideful about sexuality is instead symbolic. In 1969, the Stonewall Riots were created as a reactionary movement against police raids. Pride parades began a year later…

Americans throw around this word so flimsily to describe their interests, with distinctions between loving a burger and a partner only found through latent context. Whether this affects our perceptions of relationships as something to foster rather than something to achieve is up for debate, although it is a stance…

Power is often reflected in the media as someone with riches and influences that span a country, or even the globe. This power to control, inherit, and profit is sought after by all humans to some degree, yet those in power affect the people below them in the economic food…

Inspiration often has a domino effect, where one person’s passion quickly becomes admired and emulated by many others. Depending on how inspired these individuals become, they could invoke the same feeling in even more people. The easiest place to see this is in social media, where influencers feel less removed…

Lying can be hard, but sometimes telling the truth can be even harder. When someone knows something about you, they have power over you. In the same vein, being truthful to yourself also allows you to hold more power than ever before. …

Hope is integral to human nature and human success, so much so that it has become a popular name for women. We use the word in a variety of instances — we hope to get good grades, to get a good job, or to eat a nice meal. …

Justice is defending what is morally right. This statement is purposefully vague, as justice is not a hard and fast practice. It’s something that evolves with its beholders — homosexuality was considered immoral and unnatural by the American public only twenty years ago. Sexuality and plenty of other contemporary issues…