Author: Greg
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Why We Should Take Each Other Seriously
Do you want to be taken seriously? I would have a difficult time imagining that you don’t. The desire to be taken seriously is the fuel that powers strange personality traits that you’ve likely observed in yourself and others, including: Your Facebook friends who meticulously curate their online presence in an effort to appear as […]
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An Undergraduate Refilled Their Glasses
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Neither of them moved or spoke. An undergraduate refilled their glasses. The horn of an unseen car honked succinctly, providing an auditory punctuation that neither of them could muster.
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Short Story: Modifications Politely Declined
My latest short story Modifications Politely Declined has been featured on The Regal Fox. Click here to give it a read. He wouldn’t have noticed her if she hadn’t been smoking a cigarette. That she was doing so while seated directly under a sign that read ‘Thank You For Not Smoking’ made him feel strangely […]
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Heartbreak Dulled His Senses
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) She was sitting on the upper level of the train. He couldn’t see her face from where he was standing but he could see that her hair was auburn colored. It was enough. He was in love. It was easy and pleasurable to imagine […]
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Watching The Trains Come And Go
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) He could go out to the staircase and have a smoke without his boyfriend giving him shit about ‘bad life choices’ and him ‘being smarter than this’. Those moments could instead be spent sitting on the outdoor stairs watching the trains come and go […]
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What You Want Me To Be
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I cannot be what you want me to be, And so I’ll go alone.
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Solid Hours
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Logged some solid hours on the PhD tonight. Hope you’ve all had a great weekend.
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Marginalia: “No One Understands You And What To Do About It”
Marginalia is a regular series on Toward Vandalia in which I review the books I’m reading and unpack their most valuable lessons. Today I’m looking at No One Understands You And What To Do About It by Heidi Grant Halvorson. Heidi Grant Halvorson is the Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia Business […]
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The Color Of My Days
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I’ve been having the most vivid dreams lately. They change the color of my days. The line between what is real and what I would like to be real is becoming more and more negligible. It’s as if my dreams are a book that […]
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He Abandoned His Attempts To Blend In
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) He realised quickly that his dark blue jeans and button-down white cotton shirt made it difficult to be apatetic in this club, yet he ceased to be noticed at the very moment he abandoned his attempts to blend in.