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I once slept with a guy who has a tattoo saying "first pants, then shoes."
And I am thinking about him right now as I get ready for a random "I'm perfectly fine going out by myself" night. I really am just fine going out by myself. It will be a little weird laughing by myself in a small theater at an improv show, but I'll get used to it. You know how people say that crying by yourself is fine, but laughing by yourself feels weird? Not exactly... Laughing by yourself is ...

“My Old Man,” a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
“The Locked Room”, a novella from The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster.
The Good Soldier, a novel by Ford Maddox Ford.
“Moon Lake,” a short story by Eudora Welty.
The First Book of Samuel, a book from the Old Testament, KJV translation.
“Sorrow-Acre,” a short story by Isak Dinesen.
The Quest for Shakespeare, a biography of William Shakespeare by Joseph Pearce.
“King Lear,” a play by William Shakespeare. ...

Peace be on you. Getting nearness of God is associated with humble responsibilities and results in effects. Here are basic aspects in the light of Holy Quran's teachings.

Nearness of God

Part 1
God is always the nearest
= “And assuredly, We have created human and We know what his (physical) self whispers (to him), and We are nearer to him than (even his) jugular vein.” (Holy Quran, chapter 50: verse 70)


Meeting with God is related ...

It's already a week into the new year! Life just goes on so fast, I feel like I just started school and I'm already half way through. I have been reading books for this semester during the holiday cause I have to read more than ever before now. usually it have been about 20 books but now it's closer to 30-35. So I have finished some to try and make it a bit less during the semester, five of these books are about 900 pages about Icelandic literature so I should sit down and read.

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For those who may not know, I am the elusive litnet member who randomly appears once a year, and then goes back into the mists...

The topic of today, is New Year resolutions. I do not have one. I don't really want one either. It's been a few years since I've even considered it for a few key reasons:
1. I don't find a new year to be substantial motivation for doing something. I find that, positive changes or promises I make to myself are more likely to succeed if I have a more ...