Stop for a second and think of something good – anything. Sit still and feel the tingling in your fingertips. There’s blood running through your veins. It means you’re alive! I’m sitting here typing this and I’m wondering what to say and wondering why I feel like writing in the first place and what the [...]
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Staring at the light through the rain
Tonight I had the good fortune of walking home in the pouring rain. I am not being sarcastic, there is something almost ‘meditative’ in the act of walking in the rain. And yes, here I actually have to walk everywhere or get on a tram/train/bus …but those are pretty far apart so you land up [...]
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Is someone telling you what to do?
Someone doesn’t have to be literally telling you what to do to be ‘telling’ you what to do. It can be slightly more insidious than that. They could use passive aggressive behaviour to subtly let you, as a total stranger, know that if you ever try to pet their fluffy Husky in the streets of [...]
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I have such a profoundly deep respect for people who change their lives. The kind of change I’m of course referring to is lasting change, significant change. Complete 180 degree change. The morbidly obese man who one day decides that life is too precious to be wasted. The ‘terminally’ ill woman who decides to go [...]
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Just one note. Sometimes that is all it takes to put your entire being back in one moment in time when everything was blissfully magical. It may have been a second, a millisecond, a day or even a year. And a song or a movie or a scene has set it in stone (or grey [...]
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It’s a funny thing, trust. What causes us to trust? I’ve been told I trust too easily in life. I must admit though, that was a good few years ago. ‘What’s this got to do with anything, anyway?’ you may ask…hear me out. We meet people along the way of days, we have interactions along [...]
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Ever heard of a thing called your RAS? Reticular Activating System. I’ll explain it like this: ever dated a guy/girl with a <feel free to insert ‘Ferrari’ here> dark blue Opel Astra </feel free to insert ‘Ferrari’ here> and found that, as your crush on them grew, there suddenly seemed to be just so many dark blue Opel Astras on [...]
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Motivation by no Metric…
I never cease the struggle to figure out why some people are so motivated in life and others are, well, not. [Get a tea, this is a long one...] One of my legendary friends, Nat, always used to have this old little bit of an Italian newspaper article stuck to her ‘Space Case’ (pencil case) [...]
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Apparently our brains cannot process both fear and appreciation according to some finding by psychologists…not a very scientific reference, I’ll grant you, but a thought worth pursuing. <puke warning>Let’s take love </puke warning>, for example. Relationships can be thriving as the crest of a wave one second and drowning under the crashed white water the [...]
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