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Memories and time…

We collect things believing we can keep them forever, but they break, get lost or become hidden in some corner to be rediscovered someday, and ultimately cast away. Things hold memories, and some are damn painful. Yet, we can’t seem to let go of them just yet. When the time is right, we will find […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Shedding fears one at a time.

Only time, self-awareness and introspection make it possible to overcome our fears. One at a time, like shedding skin, do they part and leave us. However, only when the time is right and we are ready.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The gift of time.

When asked what I’d like for my birthday or Christmas, I now rarely know what to say. I actually have everything I really need. Long gone are the days when I always wanted or thought I needed something, of course, I was younger and “things” where much more important. But life changes our priorities and […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Mistakes, time and youth.

When we are young we make mistakes as we keep making them throughout our lives. Yet the difference lies in that when we are young the margin to correct those mistakes and learn from them is wider. It’s a question of the time we have left.

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

For better and for worse.

Some friendships grow through the years like a sort of “good” marriage where the ties are so strong that you feel what the other is feeling whether it’s happiness or pain, and the conviction that no matter what happens you are in it for the long run.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Turning away from closed doors.

It’s said that when one door closes another opens, and in the same line, that when you stare too long at a door you miss the door that is open. But how not stare at a door we once thought was right?

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Time and making every moment count.

As I go through last year’s credit card statement to figure out my write-offs, not very romantic, I’m amazed at how long ago it all seems. Those trips, coffees, dinners, and hotels appear to have happened longer ago. My life seems to have switched gears and the slowness of time I felt as a kid has turned […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Take time to deliberate.

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” Napoleon Bonaparte

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Is it too late?

I always thought it was too late or too “you name it.” In reality, as I’ve come to understand a bit late again, those “too…” were mere excuses to get out of doing something out of fear of failure or disappointment.