What is the purpose of my existence?

The human brain processes and filters more than 70,000 thoughts in a day, including memories, future plans, emotions, stress and much more. The repeated and constant reminiscence of the past, fantasizing about the future, and the questions raised about the present is an everyday thing for many people. Indeed, it is human nature to constantly […]
+1 chromosome… benefit and not a dissadvantage

Living in a world of image and appearance, we have an absurd demand from others – but also from ourselves – to be perfect in everything we do. Anyone who deviates from this so-called “perfection” and excellence, is automatically excluded from social events. What we forget though, is that none of us is truly “perfect” […]
Artemisia Gentileschi: A feminine Baroque touch

History is full of women’s cries drowned out… We do not forget, after all, all those women – even if we do not know who or precisely how many they were – whose achievements or skills have been forgotten, buried by the haughty gaze of patriarchy over the centuries. And probably there are so many […]
Why do we love rom-coms so much?

How to lose a guy in 10 days, Notting Hill, 10 things I hate about you, Clueless… These are just a few of the well-known Hollywood films that fall into the genre of rom-coms. Believe me when I say that I could list many more as I have seen all – or almost all – […]
“I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king”

Florence Welch, the lead vocalist of the band “Florence and the Machine” by the song ”The King” subverts stereotypes by focusing on what truly constitutes woman nature and highlighting the superpower that surrounds it. It breaks the chain of the roles that women are expected to embody, laying new foundations that are not based on […]
In search of love, not stress

How many times have you had a close person to you talking about a person they are romantically interested in they met through Instagram or Tinder? How many times have you met such a person? It is more likely that you answered yes to the above-mentioned queries. Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Tinder, Badoo. These are some […]
Welcome to my TEDx Talk Ep.9: Playing with time

I don’t have time… I can’t make it… I should’ve done it when I could… I wish I had, but I never did… I’ve said or thought about these phrases thousands of times in my 22 years of existence and I’m sure I’m not the only one. I suppose that all of us have at […]
Family is…

Family undoubtedly represents the most important means of socialization for the individual. Moreover, through actions, it contributes to transforming the person into a sociocultural being, and to shaping the child’s character to a great extent. First and perhaps most importantly, family in its basic structure refers to the people with whom we are related by […]
On Fridays we Love: Auguste Corteau

“What does it mean when a book unlocks doors in your soul that you keep tightly closed because pain lives unabated inside them?” the author writes. And the truth is that no one could better describe the emotional attachment that every reader feels having encountered a book by Auguste Corteau than the author himself in his […]