Author: Cǎtǎ Gǎrdescu

And when we are tempted, as we often are, to say, I have no choice, this is what my life is like, we still actually do have a choice. Because life is seldom what happens to us and so much more often how we interpret or how we perceive what happens to us.

Several weeks ago, my therapist and I were discussing my propensity to work more and more, regardless of how tired I felt or of how many people around me told me to take a break. I was honest about how much taking a break scares me …

The more I aged, the better I got at grasping the joy of living in the moment. And little by little, life revealed its biggest secret to me: that life is nothing but the compound interest of each day, hour and minute that I live with presence.

We, humans seldom carry balms for healing ourselves and each other. We almost always turn up, prickly and charged, but can you remember that you are love and loved and use that as self healing balm?

Living in Denmark I’ve started to define happiness in terms of predictability, room to breathe and warm lights in every window in a Danish night.