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.
Category: Reality
When the space between hardworking and working too hard becomes invisible
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 sum of our days is greater than each single day. And our lives are the compound interest of each day lived with presence.
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.
Dear love, what would you have me know about interacting with other humans?
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?
A grumpy Romanian’s reflection on the happiness of Danes
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.
Sometimes being on the sidelines means courage, respect and love.
There is nothing simple about being on the sidelines. When we see our loved ones struggling, there is a breaking in ourselves as well, but there is no true love without respect, without the trust that the person we cannot live without is able to navigate whatever the moment brings.