Tag: life
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modern
These days women can do anything by themselves. Make money, start a business, become president of you name it. We can have kids alone, raise them alone. This is practically a first. Until recently, women needed men to exist. A man would bring food to the table, provide a home, children were impossible without him.…
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Message in a mirror
Some days, seems as though I come across the same message or at least ideas and thoughts around a certain theme or issue. As if there is something I need to learn or grasp and universe persists on it. Yesterday I came across the following either in the press, social media or art: a. Friends…
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The beauty and the beast
I recently watched Beauty and the Beast (like how old am I really? As I did not watch it with a kid… anyhow). I actually watched a production by RAI, which was a little closer to reality than the Disney version that has the storyline unfolding around magic. Funnily, as a kid I was instilled…
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the metronome
Any music student knows this: the metronome. It’s not fun necessarily but there is something funny about it. You need to go slower to go faster. You need to tune in to the speed your music level is at. When we don’t rush, when we tune in, suddenly the metronome even though on the same…
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Easy recipe for happiness
I often ponder on life and happiness and the meaning of it all and how to become happy. What I should do. Other than writing a blog about it and inviting people to help me make sense of it all, that is. During this journey, I stumble often on that sad realisation that my main…
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Happy new year!
It’s a new year. A new moth. A new week even. Cool. It’s a new week every week but we do not celebrate cracking champagnes open. But should we? Time is a funny conception. We did not create time and we have trouble comprehending it fully. So, as with all things humans don’t fully comprehend,…
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Direction
I had a friend over for coffee the other day. Aged 26. He claimed his biggest frustration was him realizing life passes and he does not know where he is going. Funnily, and told him so, a few days before I was with a 43 year old friend discussing the exact same problem but sipping…