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I'm sorry, I have to give what to who?

I'm sorry, I have to give what to who?

I'm 23 and I'm having a mid-life crisis. I just got home from a 21st where I was talking to a 21 year-old about how he always thought that by 23 he'd have it sorted – got the job, got the girl, got it together (then awkwardly admitted that he's not looking good on any of those…) .

  • Transparently Transparent

    Throughout my considerably gratifying life, I have learnt a number of note worthy things, and as with all new learnings, these lessons have come at a cost to me, some greater than others.

  • How to start a Rebelution (and no, that's not a spelling mistake)

    I want to start a revolution. It was somewhere around the age of twelve that I decided that it is one of the things I want to do in life. So, when people asked the classic question \"What do you want to do when you grow up?\" I would answer \"Start a revolution,\" which would normally cause them to blink as if I had just doused them in cold water, then exclaim \"Oh!\". Quickly commenting on the weather, they would steer the conversation away from such dangerously thought provoking topics and bac

  • Communities with long memories

    We live in a society permeated with stories. Some are personal, some impersonal. Some fictional, others lived out through every waking moment. What we often forget as we are figuring out our own individual plot lines is that there are bigger stories, larger twists and even other characters that we are all inevitably a part of.

  • Evolution: It's a thing

    So we're in to a new year. One of my new year's resolutions is to be more honest.

  • The emergence of science in western sport

    We used to sit on the couch and cringe every time a super athlete would emerge from Eastern Europe or Northern Asia. We shared in such distaste every time we watched an athlete step up to receive a medal we had labelled a cheater based on assumption.

  • The Church is the Moon

    This is my story for vision. I went for a walk one Saturday evening to reflect on a sermon I was delivering the next day. There was something about what I had written that just didn't sit right with me. My plan was to walk where I felt God wanted me to walk; so as to open myself up to seeing the path that He wanted my sermon to take.

  • Christian men more bold than women in dating

    A Christian dating site has found that male users are more likely than female users to make the first contact.

  • 'Coming of age' or something like that

    So last year was momentous. I turned 21. Yes I was excited to finally be able to drink alcohol in America. Woot. Like a true female, I bought into the hype and turned my 'coming of age' into a week about myself. I seized the opportunity. Sadly the partying and the lunching was hiding something very real that I was desperately trying to cover up...

  • Desmond Tutu and Les Misérables' lesson: be the difference

    1940's apartheid South Africa: a small African boy of age nine and his mother, a domestic worker, are walking down the street. Passing the other way is a tall white man, a priest in a black cassock. As they pass on the street the priest glances at the boy's mother and tips his hat.

  • All-Stars are coming to town: 2013 NRL All-Stars Preview

    18 weeks. Or four and half months. That's how long it has been since we have seen any live NRL action on Australian soil. The wait ends on Saturday night as Suncorp Stadium plays host for the first time to the annual NRL All-Stars clash. The match is a showdown between the Indigenous All-Stars and the best of the rest, the NRL All-Stars with the Indigenous boys looking to wrest the trophy back after two long years without it.

  • A New Year Resolution

    E.E. Cummings once said, "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight – and never stop fighting." I came across this quote in a book I have and found it interesting, and quite true. The American poet, Cummings, spoke wisely when he described the world we live in.