Time counts
TW: mentions of mental illness (depression) I always believed in the importance of time in our lives. In its definitive part in everyone’s existence and in how uniquely it combines objectivity and subjectivity. How many days have we felt like they had 30 hours and how many felt like just a moment? And how many […]
The Force of Habit
Considering that our everyday life usually becomes a series of consecutive habits that affect its entirety, the following question could emerge: What happens when we decide to change these habits? “When our habits change, it’s like some brain cables are being reconnected. Our brain is a circuit that creates neuronic connections, depending on our daily […]
Writing about George Floyd and more
TW: mentions of racism, racial hate crimes and suicide The majority of the research community in the field of Anthropology agrees on the peaceful coexistence, 150,000 years ago, between the first humans of our species (homo sapiens) in the depths of South Africa. Their sources also prove that 70,000 years ago, humans started migrating from […]
For Sofia Bekatorou and every other rape victim.
Trigger Warning: incidents of rape I never thought I’d be able to address issues that require special attention, such as those relating to abuse, physical and emotional violence, and many others. I always considered my words to be just waffle compared to the incident itself, as well as the victim’s own confession. However, motivated by […]
Dear Self
Dear Self, We don’t talk enough. I fail to remember our last discussion. I’ve neglected you. Most times I just choose silence. Maybe I don’t even pay any attention to you. Maybe I’ve never given you the respect, the admiration and the love you deserve. Maybe I’ve humiliated you and left you hanging, for people […]
“Many small people…”
“Many small people, in many small places, do many small things, that can alter the face of the world.” The above African saying for three whole decades adorns part of what’s left from the Berlin Wall in East Side Gallery, but today, in 2020, it seems to be more relevant and necessary than ever. Watching […]
AQ: Anno Quarantini Quarantine
A word that has invaded our everyday vocabulary so violently and brought up unprecedented changes in our global community. Nonetheless, at the beginning of 2020, to force millions of people into their homes to protect themselves from the coronavirus pandemic only seemed like a sci-fi movie script or a conspiracy theory. What happens during […]
A life that belongs to everyone
I place in front of me a blank piece of paper. It reminds me of me. But, it´s so white on its own. I grab a black sharpie, and I draw. I like my drawing. A black and white canvas. But once again, I feel like something´s missing. I grab some colours, and I paint. […]
Solo travelling: me, myself and I…
As the saying goes (or at least went), “You can have fun anywhere with some good company!” This is not the case of solo travelling, though, a new tendency that proves we can have fun on our own and creates a first-class opportunity to get to know ourselves better through our travels. Solo travelling […]
To those we owe a Thank you to
Thank you is so hard to say, yet so necessary in human relations as Sorry, and I love you. Sometimes it’s so hard for us to thank somebody for their offering, for their support, for their general contribution in our lives, much more emotionally than practically. When discussing the concept of help, we can […]