A springtime walk in the woods, when the weather is just right, the air fragrant and filled with bird songs, will always refresh your whole being. It will make you feel alive from head to toe, will soothe your heart and put your ideas in order. Before spring is over, let’s go for a virtual […]
Eurovision – What I Learned From Entering the Contest
Excuse me, I’m still chuckling after writing that title, but it is true, I did enter the Eurovision Song Contest once. It was 2005, I was in my early 20s, and I was learning to dance in the rain, while unpleasant situations kept pouring over me. My hope that the sun was still up behind […]
Compensation
Tom leaned against the window, but didn’t see his father approaching the café. The cup of tea in front of him was empty. He ordered a third one, and checked his phone for any missed calls or texts. A brisk push of the door startled him. Forty-nine minutes late, his father was taking the seat […]
5 Tips to Improve Communication in Any Circumstance
Warning: seemingly boring introduction ahead – it involves Latin. Bear with me, though 🙂 The word communication comes from the Latin verb communico, which comes from communis, which means common, public. This is another way of saying that communication is not merely about speaking, but mostly about relating and connecting. You can speak to another […]
The Depression Series – Afterword
This is it, my short series on depression is over. I am going to take on this subject again sometime in the future, but for now I’m glad I can move to different topics. Writing this series was an interesting time, because it made me think and realize things that are important to me. For […]
Shift Your Thoughts
Part 6 – The Depression Series If you want to change your life, you have to start with your thoughts. Thinking an orange is blue, most likely won’t just turn it blue. However, thinking that happiness is possible can motivate you to make drastic change you wouldn’t even consider while thinking that happiness is a […]
Free
Part 5 – The Depression Series “The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.” Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist First, a little personal story. Exactly as Cioran put it so well in words, years ago, I saw no […]
Create an Anti-Depression Strategy
Part 4 – The Depression Series How do you know when someone is ready to overcome depression? They look for a way out – help, support, information, etc. No one can be coerced into getting better. Making choices that can improve your life, changing your thoughts and consequently your feelings, finding motivation and hope, they […]
Ready or Not?
Part 3 – The Depression Series Before starting the process of eliminating depression, you should own your decision to do so. You should feel with your whole being the desire to lift up your spirit and feel better. It’s not easy, I know, and this desire will probably come from getting too fed up with […]
Reset
Part 2 – The Depression Series My personal belief is that anyone who chooses or accidentally happens to look through the cracks of the common inertia that is usually called every-day life will experience some degree of depression. Consciously or not, depression is rooted in disappointment. We grow up being explained how life is, how things […]