Being Real on Social Media: The Power of Authenticity
We live in a world where social media acts as a showcase for our lives. With just a tap, we reveal who we are, what we do, and what we believe in. But with so much shine and expectation, a crucial question arises for us creators: how can we be authentic in a place that often
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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So, I wrote a book… Where do we learn to love?
Writing a book always seemed like a distant dream to me, but over time I learned that some things are more possible than we imagine; we just need to have courage. So I breathed, took courage and organised some stories I had written some time ago, wrote new ones, and started working. I compiled, polished,
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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A day to remember
Today I decided to grab my things and work on the rooftop of the building. After a weekend where everything seemed empty, and nothing motivated me, a day in the sun is what I needed and didn’t know. And here, I felt like writing about nothing specific but how small things save us daily. I
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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She
Trying to find the right way to speak, I fall silent. Trying only to create something good, I put down my pen. One day I was told I wasn’t old enough to speak. And I believed it. I also believed when they said I needed to study more to have the right to an opinion.
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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My new home, Liverpool
Clay-colored buildings, long days, always cold feet. Sometimes I stop and think: how did I end up here? I feel the ice on the tips of my fingers, but I can’t stop typing; I must be crazy. Tea with milk, breakfast that looks like lunch, and cars are backwards. I must be lost, am I
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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Restless
Today I woke up restless. Usually when I felt like this I would write, but it has been so long that I do not even know if I still know how to do it. Is writing like riding a bike? Let us find out. I woke up and it was already almost midday, picked up
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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The loneliness of the virtual age
The internet should have emerged as something that would have the capacity to diminish the constant loneliness in human beings. But on the contrary, it displays this loneliness to the world and helps create even more superficial bonds. People talking to themselves on Twitter, chatting on sites with strangers, creating relationships that can be ended
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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What do you want to be when you grow up?
That’s the question that’s always on most teenagers’ minds. I’m 15, and every time I bring it up with my parents, they tell me I still have plenty of time to decide, but when you stop and think about it, that’s not exactly true. Think about it: this isn’t the kind of decision you can
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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Starting
Every teenager is the same, they start something, get bored, give up, start again, get bored again, and so on.Always chasing what’s new, different, unexpected; wanting to stand out from the rest, but always, or almost always, giving up before reaching what they want.I started writing here to show what I feel, think, what I
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Amanda Oliveira-Telò
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