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 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 …
Because Christmas is coming and because a person very close to me is leaving the country I decided to write today about family relations. From my experience the relationship you have with your family is the most complicated of human relations. They are complicated because we cannot choose or change our family, they are for …
It is said that patience is a virtue and, as with all virtues, when we forget about one of them, life has a way of making us aware and gives us lessons until we remember it. Because I received this kind of lesson lately, I have given it some thought and I think that the …
I see busy people everywhere, busy at work (projects, meetings, dead-lines) and busy at home and during the week-ends. We want to be informed; we want to stay in touch with our friends; we want to read as many books as possible; we want to shop, to find the best deals or the best clothes. …
You find them everywhere: on the Internet, in books, on TV – almost everywhere you look there is someone telling you how you should live your life in order to achieve a certain goal. But this kind of recipes never worked on me and I don’t think they work on others either. Usually at the …
According to Wikipedia,” the drama triangle is a psychological and social model of human interaction in transactional analysis (TA) first described by Stephen Karpman, in his 1968 article Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis” I am writing about it because it made a tremendous impact on me when I discovered it (when it finally reached …
I got the idea of having a personal blog some time ago, but I postponed it because of time issue (or so I said) but the reason was probably the lack of courage. It’s the fear that almost always prevents us from doing the things we want. In my case it was the fear of …