I'm A Difficult Decision Maker

I can’t make up my mind. I weigh the options of who my decision benefits? Am I doing it for myself? Or am I doing it for the benefit of others? Am I just staying silent and saying ‘yes’ to everything because I can’t be depended on to make a decision that impacts myself other parties? I don’t know. In that case, doesn’t that make me an easy decision maker? ...

November 7, 2016 · 1 min · Ben Cao

Do Adults Who Are 'Only Trying to Help' Sometimes Make Things Worse?

I would think, that if you are a person who thinks that people who are trying to help are making things worse, you probably shouldn’t be open to help. Just keep your troubles to yourself. Then again, there are those people who can’t help themselves and try to help you. It’s in their nature to help you through things because they were taught to do so, or they want to fulfill their one good deed for the day. Those ones you’ll just have to politely turn them away, or just just straight up tell them they’re not helping. No point in keeping it to yourself because they know something is wrong and won’t stop until it’s resolved. It’s almost annoying. ...

November 1, 2016 · 3 min · Ben Cao

Deleting My Facebook Account

I did it before about 6 years ago to try and keep my mouth shut. Guess how long I lasted? I think it was about 2 days. I think it’s hard at this point in the digital age. It used to be that people called and texted each other to meet up in order to update on their lives. Now almost everything you want to know about your friends and family is on Facebook. It’s still the main hub of social interaction. I think you could only want to delete your Facebook account if you wanted to stay off of it while studying for final exams. Or if you actually wanted to have a lack of social interaction. Or if you still believe that calling and texting can still live on as the main point of contact. ...

October 26, 2016 · 2 min · Ben Cao

What I'm Good At

I pride myself in having a good memory. I can, for the most part, remember names with faces, random memories of how I met certain people, or really short memories that wouldn’t even make sense as to why my brain remembers them. I remember the good, the bad, and the ugly. It helps with the growing process. I don’t think I ever mentally blocked a memory or altered it in any way. Events in life come and go as they please. Remember them for what they are. ...

October 20, 2016 · 2 min · Ben Cao

Things Worth Waiting in Line For

I think food would be the obvious choice. When you’re hungry, you’re goddamn hungry. This is especially important if you have no other place to go in order to get food. If I was at a place whose line was too long, I’d probably leave and go somewhere else. As long as I have other options. Aside from the obvious choice, I don’t think I’d wait in line for anything else. I don’t have much patience for waiting in line. Even if it was to get autographs from someone famous. I’m not interested in wasting half the day standing in a line trying to get an autograph from a celebrity. ...

October 14, 2016 · 1 min · Ben Cao