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            <h2>Just Half an Hour in a Wheelchair Illuminated My Able-bodied Privilege</h2>
            <div><h3>Ridesharing apps need to take disabilities seriously</h3></div>
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    </div><h1 id="9bff">Why My Perspective Is Changing About Privilege?</h1><p id="8679"><i>written by <a href="undefined">Shay D. Potter</a></i></p><p id="b7cb">Growing up, I remember watching this popular 90s TV show, <i>The Land of The Lost</i>. Its plot was a popular alternative reality in which a family had to learn to live and survive in a dinosaur-dominated world. I’m not saying I live in a Jurassic Park World, but I can relate to the flooding rush of anxiety one might feel at the sighting of a salivating, carnivorous T-Rex ready to abuse their privilege and attack lower-form prey. For many, and if I am real with myself, we live in our own version of <i>The Land of The Lost.</i></p><p id="872e">My bubble is one of slight privilege, because of my proximity to power, status, and professional relationships. In full disclosure, I was born into the bubble and I learned through my childhood years how to exist inside of it. In this bubble, I experienced far-land camps in the mountains, attended private schools of other latchkey spoiled kids, and shared access to prestigious college campus and military officer housing quarters.</p><div id="4afe" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Why My Perspective Is Changing About Privilege?</h2>
            <div><h3>A personal reflection about my own access and economic privilege</h3></div>
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    </div><h1 id="362f">You’re Not At War with Your Ego, You’re At War with Your Conditioning</h1><p id="ddb9"><i>written by <a href="undefined">Elizabeth Gordon</a></i></p><p id="26f7">Whenever I read anything about the ego, I get a visceral image of my classmate sitting in the corner. I relive this image because this is what we do to the ego: we place it in the corner when it’s been ‘bad’ and assume that this will solve the problem. We ignore it, chastise it, and try to hide it away so we don’t have to look at it, deal with it, or ask it what’s wrong.</p><p id="4054">New Age culture has made us believe that the ego is this awful, arrogant part of ourselves — the part we need to lock away in hopes it starts behaving itself. New Age dogma loves to talk about ‘wholeness’ but always leaves out the ego, maintaining that we need to ‘fix’ it or punish it before it is acceptable enough to integrate.</p><p id="5b02">We are not helping ourselves. Not one bit.</p><div id="1136" class="link-block">
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            <h2>You’re Not At War with your Ego, You’re At War with your Conditioning</h2>
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            <div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><h1 id="f715">Everything I Learned in Life, I Learned From Judge Judy</h1><p id="bca7"><i>written by <a href="undefined">Anthony Eichberger</a></i></p><p id="2522">So why have I had this quarter-century-long obsession with <i>Judge Judy</i>? In short, her brash style and low bullshit tolerance has been a vicarious manifestation of my own psyche that I’ve often been too meek to express.</p><p id="1ab7">Most prominently, I admire the way she tells off ridiculous people. Those who have an aversion to listening. Those who love to hear themselves talk. Those who try to deceive her by playing word games during their testimony. Those who seek to verbally bulldoze their way over her.</p><p id="585a">Let’s review some of the most killer “Judge Judyisms” from her tenure on the daytime bench.</p><div id="47fa"

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class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/everything-i-learned-in-life-i-learned-from-judge-judy-9e336df56c32"> <div> <div> <h2>Everything I Learned in Life, I Learned From Judge Judy</h2> <div><h3>After 25 seasons on daytime, Judith Sheindlin has left an indelible watermark on my own aura of vigor</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*20BThB9Ifk9Odt8y3eAM3A.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="a78e">Why My American Cousins Have A Better Chance At Life Than I</h1><p id="8b27"><i>written by <a href="undefined">Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba</a></i></p><p id="2931">As I sat with my cousins in our grandfather’s living room that cold December, I listened to them talking about the things that mattered to them. As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I could not relate to most.</p><p id="fecd">Eli, my 10-year-old German-Irish-Nigerian cousin, is already a talented ballet dancer and hopes to be a prima ballerina. She takes it seriously. It is her career path.</p><p id="5289">Oma, my 6-year-old American-Nigerian cousin, is our future Olympic gymnast. Her colorful leotards came with her for the holidays. She even taught me how to do a handstand. <i>Which I still cannot do unsupported.</i></p><div id="9f8b" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/why-my-american-cousins-have-a-better-chance-at-life-than-i-dca23e680c5f"> <div> <div> <h2>Why My American Cousins Have A Better Chance At Life Than I</h2> <div><h3>They can be anything they want. Even drag queens. And make money doing what they love</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Yn54tg-nZAen4gdLNGBdgw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="bcfd">An Entire Generation Is Looking for Shortcuts</h1><p id="c6f9"><i>written by <a href="undefined">S M Mamunur Rahman</a></i></p><p id="5462">A few days ago, a friend of mine visited our house. He is a civil engineer working on a railroad construction project. He is married and has a one and half year old child.</p><p id="9a6f">We started the friends-talk, and at one point, my friend told me that he has two YouTube channels — both of them have already got monetization.</p><p id="498e">My first thought was — well, it’s natural. Nowadays, almost everybody has one YouTube channel and trying to earn some extra money. No wrong with that. So, being curious, I wanted to see those channels. I thought they are about his engineering expertise.</p><p id="be74">But then, what I saw shocked me to the core!</p><div id="39e5" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/an-entire-generation-is-looking-for-shortcuts-c8a84d49f668"> <div> <div> <h2>An Entire Generation Is Looking for Shortcuts</h2> <div><h3>Where are we going with all those stupid videos?</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*fzilOWgDfS3j_E1b9tZ5cg.gif)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="0617"><b><i>Thank you for reading.</i></b></p><p id="5db0"><i>If you want to read more, you may check out the following links.</i></p><ol><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/chosen-for-further-reading-september-2021-5cad8e69b1ec"><i>Chosen for Further Reading (September 2021)</i></a></li><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/chosen-for-further-reading-august-2021-fb07efdf4ddd"><i>Chosen for Further Reading (August 2021</i></a><i>)</i></li><li><a href="https://readmedium.com/chosen-for-further-reading-july-2021-992cd2acf9a2"><i>Chosen for Further Reading (July 2021</i></a><i>)</i></li></ol><h2 id="2d68">New to Medium?? Unlock thousands of AWESOME stories only for $5/mo. and OUTSHINE others — Click Me.</h2><p id="4fd8"><i>You can share your outstanding stories and inspire others. Just<b> click the below image</b> and be a <b>writer</b> for <a href="https://medium.com/the-masterpiece"><b>The Masterpiece</b></a><b>.</b></i></p><figure id="076c"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*kQxLuBcL48XJ6wya.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure></article></body>

Chosen for Further Reading (October 2021)

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Ditching The Corporate World To Follow My Passion

written by Venessa Amber

I graduated from college and immediately started this job, but was completely unfulfilled. So I decided to challenge myself and go back to school to finish a second degree in sign language interpreting.

I worked full-time and crammed in as many classes as I could to finish this degree. It was exhausting and more challenging than I thought it would be, but I found that spark again. That spark made me excited for the possibilities of the future and encouraged me to keep going after my passion.

When I graduated with my second degree I knew that I had to do what scared the hell out of me; break the golden handcuffs and chase the impractical job that made me excited to go to work and fed my soul.

Just Half an Hour in a Wheelchair Illuminated My Able-bodied Privilege

written by Kayla Vokolek

“I need you to drive all the way up to the hospital because I’m in a wheelchair and I can’t get to where Uber wants me to go,” I told the third driver. “But I’ll get out of the wheelchair when I get into the car, so you don’t have to transport it.” That seemed to do the trick.

Finally, this driver pulled up. He glanced at me when I gingerly sat myself down in the passenger seat. “You look fine.”

“Well, I just had an ovarian cyst removal surgery,” I said, an edge to my voice. I assumed mentioning women’s reproductive parts plus surgery would make him uncomfortable enough to take me seriously.

I was correct. He started backpedaling his tone. “Oh. That sounds painful.”

“Yeah.” I had already emerged from a hospital in a wheelchair, but apparently even that wasn’t enough “proof.” It bothered me — but didn’t surprise me — that I had to disclose private medical information to not be dismissed as a fake.

Why My Perspective Is Changing About Privilege?

written by Shay D. Potter

Growing up, I remember watching this popular 90s TV show, The Land of The Lost. Its plot was a popular alternative reality in which a family had to learn to live and survive in a dinosaur-dominated world. I’m not saying I live in a Jurassic Park World, but I can relate to the flooding rush of anxiety one might feel at the sighting of a salivating, carnivorous T-Rex ready to abuse their privilege and attack lower-form prey. For many, and if I am real with myself, we live in our own version of The Land of The Lost.

My bubble is one of slight privilege, because of my proximity to power, status, and professional relationships. In full disclosure, I was born into the bubble and I learned through my childhood years how to exist inside of it. In this bubble, I experienced far-land camps in the mountains, attended private schools of other latchkey spoiled kids, and shared access to prestigious college campus and military officer housing quarters.

You’re Not At War with Your Ego, You’re At War with Your Conditioning

written by Elizabeth Gordon

Whenever I read anything about the ego, I get a visceral image of my classmate sitting in the corner. I relive this image because this is what we do to the ego: we place it in the corner when it’s been ‘bad’ and assume that this will solve the problem. We ignore it, chastise it, and try to hide it away so we don’t have to look at it, deal with it, or ask it what’s wrong.

New Age culture has made us believe that the ego is this awful, arrogant part of ourselves — the part we need to lock away in hopes it starts behaving itself. New Age dogma loves to talk about ‘wholeness’ but always leaves out the ego, maintaining that we need to ‘fix’ it or punish it before it is acceptable enough to integrate.

We are not helping ourselves. Not one bit.

Everything I Learned in Life, I Learned From Judge Judy

written by Anthony Eichberger

So why have I had this quarter-century-long obsession with Judge Judy? In short, her brash style and low bullshit tolerance has been a vicarious manifestation of my own psyche that I’ve often been too meek to express.

Most prominently, I admire the way she tells off ridiculous people. Those who have an aversion to listening. Those who love to hear themselves talk. Those who try to deceive her by playing word games during their testimony. Those who seek to verbally bulldoze their way over her.

Let’s review some of the most killer “Judge Judyisms” from her tenure on the daytime bench.

Why My American Cousins Have A Better Chance At Life Than I

written by Blessing Oluchukwu Awamba

As I sat with my cousins in our grandfather’s living room that cold December, I listened to them talking about the things that mattered to them. As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I could not relate to most.

Eli, my 10-year-old German-Irish-Nigerian cousin, is already a talented ballet dancer and hopes to be a prima ballerina. She takes it seriously. It is her career path.

Oma, my 6-year-old American-Nigerian cousin, is our future Olympic gymnast. Her colorful leotards came with her for the holidays. She even taught me how to do a handstand. Which I still cannot do unsupported.

An Entire Generation Is Looking for Shortcuts

written by S M Mamunur Rahman

A few days ago, a friend of mine visited our house. He is a civil engineer working on a railroad construction project. He is married and has a one and half year old child.

We started the friends-talk, and at one point, my friend told me that he has two YouTube channels — both of them have already got monetization.

My first thought was — well, it’s natural. Nowadays, almost everybody has one YouTube channel and trying to earn some extra money. No wrong with that. So, being curious, I wanted to see those channels. I thought they are about his engineering expertise.

But then, what I saw shocked me to the core!

Thank you for reading.

If you want to read more, you may check out the following links.

  1. Chosen for Further Reading (September 2021)
  2. Chosen for Further Reading (August 2021)
  3. Chosen for Further Reading (July 2021)

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