What is your deepest desire? What do you wish the most at this moment? And what if it came true? What then? I saw a few years ago a TV show about a young boy from a poor village, (in Morocco if I am not mistaking). He was an adolescent (14-16 years of age), he …
I have always wondered why there are so many unhappy people around me. In Romania, being discontent with everything around us is almost like a virtue. We despise everything and everyone. Then I went to Western Europe and I saw that people are different, they are more content with their lives and they are happier. …
If we search the internet for the word „feedback” we find that feedback is a process in which information about the past or the present influences the same phenomenon in the present or future. As part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop, the event is said to “feedback” into itself. …
While I was in Thailand I saw lots of young people with huge backpacks, set off to see the world. I had seen them before in different countries in Europe, but they were not so many and not so far from their homes. The first question that came into my head was how old were …
I have been on a quest for happiness for some time, and because of this I got used to analyze my state of mind every now and then. I realized that I have all the reasons to be happy: I am happily married, I have a good, stable job, I do not have money issues …
I am currently reading a book on what the author calls “the optimal experience”. The book is called „Flow: The Psychology of Happiness” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Basically, using the findings of modern psychology, the book tries to answer a very old question: When do people feel most happy? Even though the book has more than …
It has been a while since I’ve posted on my blog and the reason is a very happy event that took place in my life and that took a lot of my time and energy. On this occasion I got the chance to travel to a land which I will not forget very soon: Thailand. …
I look at myself and around me and I see busy people, trying to gather money, possessions, trying to improve themselves or trying to be better parents for their children; basically trying to make the most of their lives. But I feel that we are so trapped in this rush of making the most of …
I recently read two books and both of them were based on the same idea: people are happy by nature and the main reason for their unhappiness is the mind and its never ending journey into the past or into the future. I came to realize that there is truth in this idea. We are …
Because Christmas has just passed and New Year is around the corner, how about going back to childhood for just a few moments. For me this means a time when we allowed ourselves to dream, to believe in magical creatures and to be free. We do not do this as adults, not because we cannot …