We're one call away from our tribe. Everywhere we go (as long as it's not the Prague subway), we can just dial a number and be engulfed in support. We're one call away from being calm, one call away from feeling grateful, loved, cared for and sometimes scolded. Humanity is evolving towards a support model … Continuă să citești Milkshake brings the 5yo me to the yard
There are people in our lives we never want to walk away from. But people tend to be meteoric, they come and they go. Sometimes it's a once in a lifetime kind of thing. Sometimes they'll come back. And I know the drill, by best friend disappeared from sight and touch for years and one … Continuă să citești grow
In the rain droplets on your jeans, while you're enjoying your coffee outside; In the one line you manage to write that day; In the smiles you steal on the subway; In hearing your friends voice on the phone; In getting dragged by your dog, who just wants to smell THAT piece of ground; In … Continuă să citești Happiness is in the details
Each of us is constantly dealing with something - be it working on closing past wounds, navigating the present or worrying about the future (all three together most of the time), our brains are constantly working on some thought patterns and trying to make the best out of it. Sometimes we need to do a … Continuă să citești Troubleshooting your mind
The ones that see the world as black and white and the ones that see it in shades of grey. The ones that are guided by their hearts and the ones that are guided by their heads. The ones that choose to see the beauty and the ones that dwell on the details. The ones … Continuă să citești There are two types of people out there
Wanting to do things with passion is something that drives a lot of people. We want to find that one thing in our lives where we feel like we pour pieces of our soul and when we look at it, we see a reflexion of us. Some find it in their hobbies, some find it … Continuă să citești Leave a piece of you in everything you touch
We fill our lives and hearts with so many things, people and experiences. And then one of them somehow goes away and something else takes its place. Or, usually, a feeling opposite to the one we felt before, at least for a while until we're ready to make space for something new. And then there … Continuă să citești Open spot, looking for rentee
By the time we reach our 20s, if we're functional human beings with functional brains, we all already took on enough drama and trauma, in one way or another, to start shielding ourselves. We have things we say no to without any explanation, we make scenarios in our heads for exit plans from any situation, … Continuă să citești Take life the way it’s meant to be taken – by the balls
We are all, in our ways, little Atlases caring the weight of the world on our shoulders. We put pressure on ourselves to strive and to succeed in all the things we take on. There's a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 18 (1971), "Effects of Externally Mediated Rewards on Intrinsic … Continuă să citești Temper the pressure
Most books I read these days have examples of experiments ran in the '70s or '80s and the amazing discoveries that they uncovered. Some of these experiments make me gag, to be honest, as they seem to define some lines of basic decency. And mostly because now, in Anno Domini 2020, the things they study … Continuă să citești Most times, there’s a way out
