When you lose something, it’s very hard to remember that for every little thing lost there is a new one on its way. Losing is not easy. It hurts and sometimes leaves scars. In psychology it is even said that the fear of losing something motivates people much more than the benefits of earning a […]
Archives for April 2011
See
What if we tried to see what really is on the other side of our discriminatory glasses? What if we tempered our aversions and irritations, and accepted that what we see is only in part objective, that the images we percieve are filtered through numerous preconceptions, and only a few of these preconceptions were formed […]
Rule Yourself
Have you ever thought about the social rules we’ve been passed on? We usually integrate them in our thinking, in our life, without questioning. They are supposed to make us get along better, or, at least, that is the explanation at hand. However, when you start thinking about these rules, analyzing them, they appear in […]
When Loudness Is Pointless
I was in Turkey, paying for some groceries, my Turkish was way too rudimentary, and the cashier didn’t seem to speak other languages. When I did not understand something she said, she repeated the exact same thing, only louder. I still had no idea what she was saying. There was absolutely no problem – I […]