Mara Prose Publishing

Category: Friendships

  • He speaks to me and He speaks to me in every way…

    This week has been an extremely trying week. It has been one full of stress, heartache and drama. People always say hardship happens in three’s. Well I can say with absolute certainty, I have experienced my three this past week. At times, the hurt, disappointment and stress from the situations…

  • Perception is far from reality

    This week I learned the importance of not accepting perception as reality. We lost someone to suicide this past week. We lost someone who on the outside, seemed to have it all, yet chose to take their own life. We never knew this person was suffering from depression. Out of…

  • Generating your own path without apology

    I don’t have a long message for you today. Something I read sparked me to say to all my readers this simple fact: In life, we must generate our own restrictions. Of course, people in life will always have expectations, form perceptions and try to bend you to their will.…

  • Family Woes – Peace, Love and Understanding

    This blog is dedicated to the family members who do not understand me, never try to understand me and probably never will understand me. This is basically my purging myself of toxic situations and letting the world know I am my own person and I will not be controlled, manipulated…

  • Love & Happiness

    Last night, I spent the evening with some great friends. Some old, some new and some renewed. I was very particular about the guest list as this was a very special occasion and I wanted it to go over without a hitch. Only one nut-head slipped through the cracks but…

  • My Awakening

    These past six months have been a true awakening for me. As many of you know and some don’t, I decided to take what I coined as a “hiatus from the norm.” See my norm had become mundane, I felt unfulfilled and I knew I needed to take drastic action…

  • The Importance of Self Worth

    Mastering a strong sense of self can be one of the most challenging prospects life throws our way.  I’m not talking about the bravado most of us throw on daily in an effort to appear as if we have it all together.  No, I mean the self worth that comes…

  • DAILY MP REBLOG: Toxic People

    DAILY MP REBLOG: Toxic People

    Original Publication Date May 15, 2012 Hello Prosers! I wrote this many years ago and decided it would be a great topic of discussion for today’s reblog and per my usual habit, I have edited my copy and included extra material for your reading pleasure. Many people have touched on…

  • Why can’t we be “authentic” friends?

    At the beginning of this year, I decided to evaluate my friendships. I picked out all those friends that have remained true to me and decided that I would plan activities on a regular basis and the ones that made the most effort to show up, have a good time…