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I’m scared to grow up. I’m scared to stop feeling joy as I stare at the sea. I’m scared to take life for granted and start living day by day. I’m scared…
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Silence. Praise, even in the singularity of its filling. It’s not noise. Noise can and should be silent as well. It’s a warm-hearted absence of sound…
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Thinking about thinking. What does that mean in the end? It’s an endless conversation which leads nowhere. It’s mostly awareness and understanding that…
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Why is it we need to be constantly fighting our brains? Finding any sort of strategy to pretend we are functioning human beings? When we analyse the…
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What if it all melts away? Is that a negative thing? Or a repercussion of the inner fear we have towards love? Fear of rejection? Or is it something…
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We live in demanding contradictions. Society tells us to wake up early, be productive and successful, yet it also tells us we should drink and go out…
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We are the lonely generation. Some years ago, if you’d ask an average American how many people they could go to in case of a crisis, they would tell you…
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“If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room” How do we learn? How do we move forward in life? Those are two different…
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We live life forward but we only understand it backwards. What if one day everything clicks? Suddenly all makes sense. All your previous efforts align…
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If there is something I have learned with life is that the grass is always greener on the other side, meaning we will always want what we don’t have. If…
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Here is a topic that has been on my mind lately: money, success, fame. I have met a rather famous person as one might say and she has asked me whether I…
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The game of life is aiming to find solutions to one challenge after another, iterating over who we are and breaking the boundaries of being ourselves…
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