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 […]

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Those days that suck the life out of you.

There are days when you see your life as a bystander and ask yourself if this is the life chose. As the day progresses the cloud follows you and you can’t seem to shake that feeling of meaninglessness. You want to escape it but can’t. It seems forever to finally get home and hide under […]

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We are responsible for 40% of our happiness.

Attaining happiness is a common goal. And while each person’s measure of happiness is a very unique and personal experience, we all can attain it. Our individual happiness depends on different factors, some we have no control of and others we are actually responsible for. So how do we steer ourselves towards a happier state of mind?

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New year, fresh start.

We want to make a fresh start, although life is a continuous line with actually no real break in time. Yet, this “New Year benchmark” provides us with an excuse to believe and hope that we can change something and do those things that haven’t worked in the past differently.

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If only…

Don’t you hate the sentence starting with: “If only…?” Damn! I have ‘t used this expression in the past tense in decades. “If only I had not drunk myself silly…” What belongs to the past must stay there, but should be kept as a reminder of what not do gain! Like hitting your head against […]

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