Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
We all need companionship of some sort. Someone to hug, the warmth and knowledge that someone has our back keeps us relatively stable as well as knowing that someone cares deeply about us. It’s said that people who hug or have a significant another live longer, and I can understand very well why. We are not […]
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We spend our lives waiting ever since childhood for the next thing; growing up, going to college, getting a good job, getting a car, a home, a relationship that works, marriage etc… The weekend! Wasting the present moment. Plan we must, but there’s so much more to life than simply planning and waiting. While we […]
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There are many reasons to go THERE at some point in our lives. Some have never experienced them, but others, as I, have. Now, many years later, and having had to start from ground zero the past two years, leaving me a bit weary and broken, I have found my 13 reasons why not: Because I […]
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Shy people tend to be loners, and the reasons are obvious; social situations make us anxious, although some who may see us from the outside might think we fit right in, we don’t. We keep a safe distance and as soon as we can we flee to our safe place: solitude. There are many of […]
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Nothing kills one’s self-esteem as rejection does. It grabs our ego and tears it to pieces, leaving us naked and vulnerable to even further pain. We start to doubt our worth, and the ability to be worthy of love, any love whatsoever. We feel fake, and somehow impostors. It takes time to stand up again and […]
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We are given many chances throughout our lives to reinvent ourselves, especially after every fall. It is in these moments that we find out which of our personality traits are worth working on to overcome them and grow, especially in the relationship department. While it might be painful to face our truths, this is the […]
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We all have first times, but with age, there are far fewer ones we can celebrate. I have plenty now to celebrate myself, a bit late but still excited! Granted they came at a price but I am grateful I got to experience them. For the first time: I owned my faults in relationships. I’m […]
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After two years I have found my very own happy place, my home, my sanctuary, my escape from the world and safe place. While I have few pieces of furniture, as I walk in, my heart is filled with joy. My home is simple but bright and that’s all I could ever ask for. I’m […]
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All my life I’ve been naturally driven to melancholy. There is a certain beauty to it.Unlike sadness, it’s not painful and it has helped me countless times to recover emotionally from small unforeseen losses, which we all experience as we live and move on. Melancholy may sit in the past, in the present, and in the “what could have been’s.”
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My dearest niece, and god-daughter, Welcome to growing pains! My dad once told me at your age that family and friends would always be with us…. That he would always be there for me no matter what. I was sixteen at the time, angry, afraid and wanted out. But probably mostly, out of my skin. […]
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