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Cheers! To 30 And Beyond 🚀

Alexander Agent | April 8th, 2023 ✨ If you like what you read, help me by sharing with your besties ✨ “Your thirties are where you substitute expectations with hope.” - My friend, John Fairbairn A friend recently posed a thought that made my heart sink. She said, “My younger self would be so proud of me today.” The words stung unexpectedly, and I was IMMEDIATELY paralyzed in thought; and after ~mulling it over~, I don’t think I can relate. 🤷♂️ Today is my 30th birthday (WOOHOO!!) and the...

about 1 year ago • 3 min read
"You know what that is? Growth."

Alexander Agent | July 15th, 2022 ✨ If you like what you read, help me by sharing with your besties ✨ "The least we can do is to think we can do something." - Robina Courtin If you would have told me in 2019... One day, I would be the type of person whose identity and life philosophies have blossomed because of what I’ve learned from Tiktok... I would ask you why dancing and lip-synching were so important to future me. The app has changed its form and improved itself so intensely and...

almost 2 years ago • 4 min read
A gif from The Simpsons of a Pride parade. The caption reads "Rainbows, Tank Tops, Empowerment."

Alexander Agent | June 16, 2022 ✨ If you like what you read, help me by sharing with your besties ✨ "Hi gay" - Meg Stalter First of all, Happy Pride! My queer life really jumpstarted in the Spring of 2014 (I wrote a bit more about that last year). Prior to that, I lived the classic childhood and adolescence of a straight male. Even through college, I flirted exclusively with women and my “dream life” was built around being married to a woman and having kids by the age of 22. A bit ambitious...

almost 2 years ago • 4 min read

Alexander Agent | May 27, 2022 ✨ If you like what you read, help me by sharing with your besties ✨ "There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play." - James Carse SHEESH! It’s been a minute! I'm glad to be back. A lot has happened since we were last here. For starters, my volleyball team recently started our second season together. You likely...

almost 2 years ago • 4 min read

Lately, I’ve had a lot of things to do, but very little motivation to do them. I’ve barely had the motivation to get dressed, much less to do something impactful, useful, or even necessary (like work… for money… to pay my bills). What a DRAG. I know I’m not alone. You might relate if you are chronically depressed or anxious, and you might relate simply because you’re human and we all have things we do and do not want to do. Regardless of your relationship with mental illness, we all...

almost 3 years ago • 5 min read

I had an encounter with a homeless man earlier this week... ...and I can’t shake it from my mind. So I’m writing about it… that’s what this thing is for, right? Homeless people are everywhere. Last year, 66,433 homeless people were counted in Los Angeles County (0.66% of the total population of 10.04M), and that’s only an estimate. “Oh, well, it must just be because I live in a big city.” You know, city life. Home to skid row. Wrong. Even in my tiny hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana, which...

almost 3 years ago • 3 min read

I attended my first Pride parade... ...in Houston, Texas, in June of 2014. I went alone and in secret, and I “celebrated” by making out with this random woman in some bushes just off the parade route, behind a gas station-- not the gayest thing I've ever done. I still wasn't "out” at the time, and the girl and her friends-- a colorful palette of Ls, Gs, Bs, Ts, and Qs-- took me in under their festive and very gay wings. We spent the rest of the day together, going to a diner, and chatting...

almost 3 years ago • 2 min read

A company I once admired became a company I no longer trust: Last week, I received a friendly message on Instagram from a company asking if I was interested in becoming an ambassador for their brand. For those of you who aren’t IG-savvy, this doesn’t make me special-- most people receive DMs all the time from brands seeking “influencers;” AKA you get their goods at a discounted price as long as you take a picture and post in the merch that you purch… ase. The tricky bit here is that it was a...

almost 3 years ago • 3 min read

I have lived most of my life... ...focusing on the prosperity of tomorrow rather than the happiness of today. 😬 Sad, but true. (What a terribly negative way to start this post lol) I came out to my parents as not-exactly-straight, not-exactly-Christian, and not-wanting-to-be-a-veterinarian-anymore during one extremely longggggg car ride to New Orleans circa 2014 (Now, THAT is a conversation you wouldn’t want to be present for -- ba-dum, chhhh…). Those are three MAJOR changes of plans for a...

almost 3 years ago • 2 min read

When I was in middle school... My mom took me to see our family doctor concerning a large lump that she noticed on the back of my neck. The lump didn’t hurt and, considering I was a quickly and inconsistently growing pre-teen, it didn’t seem all that unusual to me. But to my mom, it looked like it could be a cancerous tumor, or a bone growing incorrectly, or the beginning of my humiliating yet inevitable journey to starring in the live-action Hunchback of Notre Dame. Because it was important...

almost 3 years ago • 2 min read
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