hope – Page 6 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

It’s in the struggle that we learn what we are made of

Only through struggle and pain do we learn what we are truly made of. It’s in these times that we are tested and become aware of our strengths and weaknesses which allow us to grow and have more faith in ourselves and in life. If we made it through a rough patch, we certainly can face […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The importance of mourning loss

I thought that the best cure for pain was getting busy and trying to forget at any cost what had transpired. But it doesn’t work that way. Or at least it hasn’t worked for me. Those solutions are temporary. Getting over pain takes a period of mourning. Now, I’m at that point, and I’m not […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Those scary places.

Once in a while when your safety blanket of comfort has been taken away, and everything is new, you have to reinvent your life and make it fit again, but it’s a scary place to be at. Change is scary because of its newness and unpredictability and you find yourself holding your breath hoping it will […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Necessary disappointments

If people didn’t disappoint us, we wouldn’t get to appreciate those who don’t do that. Therefore, I feel there is a point in having to go through disappointments. I will try to explain. Buddhism teaches us that if we have no expectations, we won’t ever be disappointed so we won’t suffer unnecessarily. However, to reach […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The simple life

The simple life is one that is drama free. One in which you tune in with the world and accept it as it is, in the sense that you don’t spend your time complaining about things and not changing them, on the contrary, when something doesn’t work, try something new. Accepting that life it is […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Deep breaths of life

I guess it was a month and a half ago when I started really taking deep breaths of life, peace and serenity. It had been a while since I had felt this way, in fact, years, no wait! Maybe never before! That nagging feeling of dissatisfaction has left me at long last, as I’ve accepted and […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Let the experts do their job and stop googling your symptoms!

I hadn’t been feeling too well for a month. Although I was happier than I’d been for months, I seemed to not be able complete even the smallest tasks on my to-do list, which keeps growing as if it had a life of its own! So, last night when I found I had a fever again […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

What gets you through hard times

I’ve gone through plenty of hard times, as most of us have. The downs are part of life, but it is our choice how we manage to get through them and our attitude. If we only focus wholeheartedly on the bad, the time we spend in the darkness of the tunnel will be longer, more […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

My Dear fifteen-year-old,

Fifteen is like the rite of passage, it is fun and exhausting at the same time. A time of discovery not only of new experiences but of your own feelings. A time of confusion and relative anxiety in a time when you believe you should know where you are headed. You actually don’t have to […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Dare to dream

Many years ago I didn’t dream about getting to better places until a friend told me to dare to dream, to imagine things I wanted and that eventually those things would materialize. It was hard at first. I had to actually allow myself to imagine getting even the simplest of things. Most were not even […]