Questions about learning, growing, and our abilities to do so. I cannot even explain why, but I have this feeling that I am losing my capacity of learning new skills or things. I am trying new applications and tricks to memorize more. …

Key to resilience. After years of looking in the wrong places, I finally realize how liberating and happiness-generating acceptance can be. The world is an unwelcoming, dangerous, and ruthless place where human beings of all kinds share a resourceful but wounded home. …

Finding meaning in your daily life, the willingness to wake up every morning, it’s hard work. For some of us, there is no questioning at all, for others, there are some deep ones, constantly coming up. We should be reevaluating our life’s choices often, in order to make sure that they’re aligned with our core values and with the world generally speaking. I came across this Japanese concept a while ago, and I think it’s worth our time and reflection for sure.

The joy of anxiety and deep personal doubts and fears. Open text. Open mic. Open heart. — The older you get, the more anxious you get. Based on experiences, knowledge, information, chats, and life lessons we learn, we get more fearful as we go along. It goes from relationships to entrepreneurship, to commitments of any sort. It’s the weight of age, the wisdom that might come with…

It started with fear, anger, and shame all mixed together. Then, it was victim-blaming, loss of self-esteem and, self-respect. Now, it’s exhaustion, sleeplessness, low self-confidence, trust issues, and insecurities. Is my innocence completely gone? Did my sparkle leave me? Did my sparkle die? Did some parts of me die? …

I’m moaning, complaining, raging over meaningful and futile life’s uncomfortable situations. I want control over everything. I’m going from being aware to unaware constantly, depending on my sleeping, eating, and exercising routine. I’m losing focus, drive, motivation, and hope, as quickly as I give up on my self-care when it becomes too difficult to put in place, I swear. I’m losing myself in comparison, other people’s image and their lives which I really don’t care about.

There is so much mystery about people’s chemistry They met and then, can’t get enough of each other They share, they laugh, they cry and they fight But you should see how they love, it feels damn right From the bottoms of their hearts With all the cells of their bodies It’s not always made of butterflies and rainbows But World, I swear, it takes away all your sorrows Tribute to my loved one, A.

C’est le festival des épidémies de COVID et d’conneries. « Plaisir individuels au détriment de la santé collective, Envies personnelles aux dépends de la la vie d’un tel, Absurdité d’actions sans acceptables raisons, Comportements égoïstes face aux chiffres alarmistes, Absence de conscience, espérant être sauvés par la science, Ignorance à tord…

Cicero (106–43 B.C.) is quoted as saying, ‘Ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi’ : “The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter” or, also, “the eyes are the windows of the soul”. Clearly, I’ve been looking around. I’ve been observing and contemplating…