Life – Page 3 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

When I want to die

Maybe I shouldn’t say this, but sometimes when I’m down and life gets too hard, it helps me to say aloud, with no one around, that I want to die. How can this help? It does, and a lot. Saying and acknowledging this feeling, this wanting to die, is like choosing to live. I let it […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Many lives, Many Masters; An inspiring book to put your soul at ease.

A comforting book on death and how it may change how we live. This book was given to me as a birthday present and the gentleman did what nobody ever does anymore, dedicated it to me. This book came up over drinks a few months ago when we were talking about our respective divorces, how we […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

My comeback to cooking and authentic Mexican taste.

I haven’t cooked for a long time. It’s taken me a while to tie that apron back on since I stopped cooking a few years ago. They say that how one feels spills into the food you’re cooking, so cooking without joy made my meals feel a bit sad and tasteless. Just like the movie “Like […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Stop questioning life and start living

As a kid, I wondered what life was about and now I finally know. Life is about what is important to you. Life is a string of moments that become our lives. We borrow life to later return it. There’s no complicated universal explanation. And it’s very simple; we breathe, we stop breathing. What’s complicated […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The road to getting well is bumpy

Nothing could have prepared me for all this sudden change. As scary as change has always been for me, now I welcome it. I’m reaping the benefits of living in a constant state of uncertainty and have learned that the road to getting well emotionally and physically is always bumpy. All the bumps, potholes, turns, […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

I’ve finally arrived at my destination at 50

I never thought this would happen to me. That I would turn 50 and then 51. I actually thought older people belonged to a different species in my youth. As I got closer to 50 I felt anxious, but once I arrived and became part of that over 50 species I feel somewhat relieved. My […]

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

Frozen by indecision.

After a year of constant decision-making, following my heart and intuition to the best of my ability, I now find myself frozen by indecision. However, it’s not big decisions feel unable to make, but simple everyday decisions as whether to dine out or at home. I know this happens to many after the dust settles […]

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 […]