Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
It takes courage to admit to yourself that you’ve been fooled. That “aha!” moment is like taking a punch to the face, not to mention how your ego is left in rags! The shame, the humiliation can be pretty devastating, and the self deprecatory remarks make things even worse. Of course, the other person suffers, […]
Read More…Anniversaries are milestones that mark our lives. They can be detours, stumbling blocks, or just a celebration of an important change, as mine turned out to be. The celebration of my new life, the one I unsuspectingly started when I came to San Francisco for a visit, making it my home. I didn’t make a […]
Read More…There are times when all you can do is keep breathing. When pain is so dull and deafening that all you can do is give in. You are so paralyzed by the overwhelming emotion that you are at a loss, stuck and unable to move on. You cannot change how you feel at will. If […]
Read More…The most irritating and hateful expression in the break-up scene is: “It’s not you, it’s me.” But often, we should reverse the order of the sentence and use it as soon as we realize the person we are dating is not worth our while. We are stubborn though, and hope the other person will somehow […]
Read More…Years ago, when I heard the line “Nothing has to happen for me to have a bad day,” I suddenly felt relieved. I was not alone experiencing those bad days that weren’t prompted by any specific event. I wasn’t crazy or too strange.
Read More…If you’ve never tried it, get up at 5 A.M. and go running at the crack of dawn. Why? There is nothing like the quiet of the streets, the early start of the day to get your body and mind moving. As you run, you will gain perspective on everything; your life, job, projects you […]
Read More…When someone hurts us, automatically our brain goes into wicked revenge mode. Thinking up cruel ways to add injury to those who have screwed us. But, even if we feel and think this way, it might not be, not only in our own best interest, but not in our true nature at all. You can […]
Read More…We dislike people whom we would never cross paths again if it were up to us. Unfortunately we can’t avoid some individuals that add nothing valuable to our existence. We can try to work around them, yet in a way we should expose ourselves to those we mistrust and truly dislike.
Read More…I might still be like a child who needs consistency in order to respect people, especially authority. I was told one thing and then I saw the exact opposite happen, and besides feeling disappointed and a tad angered, I lost respect for those people.
Read More…There are e-mails not worth reading. Those from ghosts of the past that contribute nothing to your life or well-being. Now that we are so connected we have to choose which e-mails are worth answering, those to be discarded and not read and those for safekeeping.
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