Do you sometimes feel as if you are just sinking or drowning under a never-ending wave of problems? How do you, or can you pull yourself through this and keep your head above water? A couple of years ago I was part of a group who would regularly meet...
Read moreHave the courage to live a life true to yourself (…). November (or this whole year) is quite a harsh month for a lot of people, including me. A lot of my friends have had some very difficult times lately and at some point I didn’t know what to...
Read moreLast time we were talking about perception and the way we see and interpret things around us, how we react to the environment and people around us as gods…or was it just as merely humans?! The human mind is a very powerful instrument and is able to make you...
Read moreA little while ago, a very inspiring friend of mine was teasing me with a question. How comes that prisoners manage to escape from prisons? Well, simple – she said – because that is what they have in mind all the time. They are literally obsessed by the...
Read moreOk, I finally decided to do this! After seeing several times all the people in a train wagon with their phones, checking out the latest news available, I decided I had to cut off all this “media/social/gossip” stuff. I realized that I used to spend time concentrating on things...
Read moreAt least once a month, I take a 3 hours long train ride to spend time with my family. It’s my escape from the hectic capital of Romania. I’d go to my grandparents’ house and we’d just hang out, talking about different things. My grandparents are the sweetest ever. The...
Read moreLast week I went to my optician, as I really needed new spectacles to replace the old ones I had made about five years ago. I went through all possible eyes checks to update the requirements for the lenses – the optician I go to has state of the...
Read moreA common story… Lena is a sociology student and has been given 2 months ago an assignment to produce a paper. Deadline is tomorrow, she has spent the past seven days sitting in front of her computer with a pile of books on her desk. Yet, the page is...
Read more“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” John Milton This subject came into my mind while listening to some people talking about their problems. And I started to question myself “How come they don’t see it?”. It...
Read moreIn the dating world we all want to win and to have successful relationships, but when we start to look closely, we realise The Game is sometimes hard and we can end up broken hearted. If everyone would play correctly, trying their best not to hurt the other, dating...
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