hope – Page 13 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

Nothing happens for a reason.

I used to have this naïve idea that everything happened for a reason. Yet, after much thought, many bumps on the road, the harsh, or maybe not so much, reality is that things just happen, good and bad, and there is no hidden reason.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Another year rushing to its end.

Wait, but it’s still November! You may gasp, but time goes faster as you add-on years. Life conspires to start gaining momentum when you wish it didn’t. When you are young you can’t wait to be old enough to drink, to go off on your own, to finish college, to start making a good living […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The stories behind pictures.

“Every picture tells a story,” because a snapshot can capture more than words could ever express in a few lines.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The winds of change and chance.

There is a time, every year when the cool winds start to pick up. Trees start to bare their leaves and life seems to become darker. But it’s at this time when things start to change. Nature starts getting rid of the old and starts to get ready for renewal.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Disassociation: escaping pain.

There is something called disassociation, when something is so painful you put it away in a drawer at the back of your mind and let it stay there, hidden. Sometimes it’s forgotten, but the day always comes when it returns and you need to tuck it back in with all its consequences, or deal with […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

When I thought I was too old…

Feeling old is a question of attitude. You’re only old when you give up enthusiasm and set limits for yourself based on a number. That could happen at any age.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Hope…

This is the last thing to go. When hope is gone, our will is no longer.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

When happy pills are the answer.

I never believed in “happy pills,” but was always curious as to whether they could actually make you feel eternally happy. My thoughts were, that since sadness and pain are part of life, we should endure it like everyone else. Yet, not everyone is the same and sometimes we need a little help when […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

If today sucked, there is always the hope of a better tomorrow.

I’ve learned this last year that no matter what, tomorrow can bring something better than whatever today took away. Maybe it robed me of my optimism, things didn’t work out as expected or something went awry.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Return to the old philosophers to find hope.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was angry when attending theatre became a bourgeois pastime. He’d feel the same way now, on seeing the rise of social networks. He believed that theatre was a distraction from who we are and the present moment. He was right. Our constant focus seems to be to escape the moment, to escape ourselves, to escape […]