Daniel Blokzyl
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To Thine Own Self Be True
Note: One of my college classes this semester required us to write a ‘blog post’. This was my submission. Maybe I’ll start writing here regularly again… Authenticity: adjective When I was asking people what words they’d use to describe me, I heard quite a variety. But one came up almost every time: authentic. It’s a…
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Mental ‘Wellness’
My thoughts on the Mental Wellness industry. Warning: this post is a bit of a rant.
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Just write something!!!
Challenging myself to write something. Anything. Hardest part of writing, from what I understand, and am now experiencing, is just getting started. Forming that initial idea that sparks everything else after it. That said, I know that when I have that issue, I like to say that it’s because I can’t think of anything; but…
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Doppelganger
dop·pel·gang·er /ˈdäpəlˌɡaNGər/ noun noun: doppelganger; plural noun: doppelgangers an apparition or double of a living person. “He has been replaced by an evil doppelganger.” It’s the name of a book I’ve been reading by Naomi Klein. The book was named that because she would continually get mistaken online with another popular author in her field…
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Long Time, No Blog (Progress report)
Keep telling myself lately to start writing here again. So, here I am! Finally. I’m back. Whether or not it makes a difference for anyone other than me. What I mean by that is the realization that writing in this blog is good for me at the very least, because it allows me to look…
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Newton’s First Law of Motion
“An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless a force acts upon it.” I watched the movie “Wonder” today. It makes reference to this law when panning through an overhead view of a classroom, centering on the main character, August (Auggie) Pullman, a boy with a major facial deformity, sitting at his…
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Protected: What’s the fucking point?
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Real Talk (the flip side)
Note: This will be much more hopeful and uplifting…I promise. So the last post was very…shall I say, depressing and somber. I intentionally left it without a hopeful note at the end because that’s reality for a lot of people. They do everything they can despite the lot they’ve been given in life and get…
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Real talk
I’m kinda scared. Scared cause everything that my life has been for the last 3-5 years is potentially changing soon and I’m scared I’m not gonna make it out there in the ‘real world’ on my own. I mean, I’ve lived in society…but I’ve never really thrived. It’s honestly just felt like setback after setback,…
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Interview!!
I was interviewed this week by Russ LeBlanc as part of his podcast for Club ADHD! Club ADHD is a community started by Russ with the idea of supporting adults with ADHD. I talked with Russ about what it’s like to be an adult who was recently diagnosed with ADHD. If you want to see…
Suddenly Delayed 