Comments on: In a quasi-anonymous world, success is nothing without friends

By: Don’t make career plans – here’s why « Daily News

Don’t make career plans – here’s why « Daily News — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:08:40 +0000

[...] instance, I had drinks with Johannes last week. He’s been planning one particular career path for a number of years now and found out [...]

By: Modite - 36 hours to making a new friend

Modite - 36 hours to making a new friend — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:22:08 +0000

[...] And as we moved throughout the day, I felt how great it was to be making a new friend. It’s single-handedly one of the most powerful things, to begin to trust someone, to share your dreams and goals, and your frustrations and livid anger. To have a mutual respect and desire to change the world. Our generation thrives so much on loose connections, Facebook friends, being quasi-anonymous, that making deep connections often seems like too much work. [...]

By: Modite - What passion looks like

Modite - What passion looks like — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:55:17 +0000

[...] When I got sick, one of the first things I had to do to get better was learn to give myself shots in the stomach. The very first time I had to do it, I sat on a hospital bed with Johannes across from me and the nurse beside me, and I cried. And when I say cried, I mean I bawled harder than I have ever bawled in my adult existence. My whole body heaved with the impossibility of the task. [...]

By: Modite - Life as a Gen Y leader - week eleven

Modite - Life as a Gen Y leader - week eleven — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:27:48 +0000

[...] At the time, I was grateful to hear that others were just as crazy as me, but as Belle and my sister amuse me with their updates on promise rings and wedding plans, I’m anxious for the whole “not having a life” thing to be over with. Because I do want it all. The family. The career. And everything in between. [...]

By: Modite - Engagement for the next generation

Modite - Engagement for the next generation — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:43:59 +0000

[...] For example, at our last happy hour, Johannes told me that I looked like a word that rhymes with rut. Which was quite upsetting to me, because I had chosen my outfit carefully to say “hip young professional,” not “five-dollar-corner-of-the-street-ho.” I promptly hit him in the chest, lucky for him, because I really wanted to poke him in the eyes. From now on, I will lovingly refer to him as Johannes the Jerk. [...]

By: Modite - Engagement for the next generation

Modite - Engagement for the next generation — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:16:16 +0000

[...] As such, dating is a dangerous ingredient to add to the work/life blender. Friends and work and business associates and drinks and family all mix quite nicely. But the moment dating (and the prospect of sex) comes into the mix, people get all crazy. Seriously. Many in our generation would prefer not to even talk about dating and sex. A foreign concept to me because that’s essentially all my best friend Belle and I talk about. [...]

By: Modite - Engagement for the next generation

Modite - Engagement for the next generation — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:26:06 +0000

[...] How could this woman who had known me less than twenty minutes hit on the exact thing that I tried to ignore daily with the right friends and the right clothes and the right job? [...]

By: Modite - Engagement for the next generation

Modite - Engagement for the next generation — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:36:56 +0000

[...] And yet, as a newly minted Gen-Y leader, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish I had someone to come home to, someone that would understand and support and be there for me. Someone to share the success. It’s hard to be a leader and not have personal support, even with wonderful friends and family. [...]

By: Modite - Engagement for the next generation

Modite - Engagement for the next generation — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:52:17 +0000

[...] That means you have to enjoy being alone with yourself. It’s hard to do that. I myself love being around other people. People would describe me as an extrovert. But I am most comfortable alone. Even on days like today. I don’t have to brush my hair, and the words out of my mouth are not timed and measured. There is no one to worry about trusting in hushed voices, and it’s okay that I haven’t done the dishes. [...]

By: Positive Change in a New Media World « Little Red Suit

Positive Change in a New Media World « Little Red Suit — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:39:05 +0000

[...] Millennial bloggers are writing about the importance of spending time with people in real life. Marci Alboher recently touched on the immense value of the simple act of picking up the phone to call someone rather than to chat online or via e-mail. This simple act was so meaningful that the reporter she called wrote about it on her blog. [...]