I highly value my alone time. Indeed, I am great friends with myself and enjoy my company. It is a relationship that has been building over the years and has now reached the point where I intentionally set aside time for me, myself and I. What do I do during these one-to-one dates?
Because the opposite requires hard work not only to achieve but to maintain. It takes grant and continuous efforts to pacify and rule over our passions, or even harder to learn when there is the right time and place for them.
This is the magical thing about dogs: they are always thrilled to see you, even if you have been away for five minutes. Time is irrelevant to them. They will never greet you in a grumpy, indifferent, anxious, sad, tired way as we humans do.
Real, quality friendships are based on hard work, continuous effort, compromises and goodwill. It is the purpose that delineates them. I know it does not sound so romantic, somewhat cynical, I admit; however, worthy and long-lasting things in life are high-maintenance.
When I hace to buy a gift for someone, I panic. I worry because most people in my life have what they want and what they need. What can I give them that is special, unique and purposeful?
There are numerous creative responses to ‘When are you going to have children’ that vary from being polite to it-is-not-your-f*cking-business kind. You just choose the one that fits your mood and mentality better!
When I started decluttering, my life felt lighter and more purposeful. I was able to focus on situations and decision making properly. I just had to start removing the noise.
‘Are you sure you want to get pregnant and start a family while in a pandemic?’ asked my gynaecologist last year when I revealed my plans to him.
Is the notion of ‘passion’ overestimated or underestimated? In the last year and a half, the idea of passion has concerned me more and more. Was it the lockdown that enabled this pondering, or had […]
New reality, call for action It was a shock. First, weird and then a shocking realisation. Not so much the news of the pregnancy; this was surprising but not unexpected, as we were planning to […]