Golden Blood

Sensitive content warning: reference to blood Terms such as ‘hair color’, ‘eye color’, ‘body type’, or ‘height’, bring about different thoughts and connotations in mind. If we take a careful look, though, we realize that there is common ground between them. They constitute characteristics that exist in different forms and make us special. Among them […]

“Leave it for later, you’ve got time”

The clock’s pointers on the wall continue their journey and the minutes seem to run ceaselessly. When you turn your look in their direction, it’s like they perceive your presence, they run even faster. Music playing on the headphones and cell phone in hand to stop these thoughts. Studying does not progress but, at the […]

Final destination: “Eudaemonia”

Quite the timeless and timely concept is that of eudaemonia. A concept that’s been studied by many philosophers from early times. For the sake of unraveling the tangle of its comprehension, we will begin by “fragmenting” the word into its separate compounds: eu+daimōn, i.e good+spirit. According to Aristotle, eudaemonia represented a pleasant mental state, arising […]

“Spring itself is a product of man…”

The destructive cyclone Bhola —one of the biggest natural disasters over time— and a bloody war of independence composed the puzzle of the situation in Bangladesh at the beginning of the 1970s. The results were disastrous, with thousands of deaths and people in conditions of extreme poverty. Extreme poverty, as defined by the United Nations […]

Sleep waves

Some time ago, while recording scattered thoughts in an old notebook, I realized how sleeping takes up a big part of the day and that I was not aware of what is going on in the meantime. According to an instruction of the (American) National Sleep Foundation, an average adult needs- although impossible at times- […]