If these past couple of years have taught us anything, it should be this: everything material that we cherish so fiercely is little more than a castle of sand standing on the shore. It may withstand countless quiet…
Have you ever stopped to consider what it is that makes someone a main character? We like to believe there must be something unmistakably extraordinary about them, something sharp and luminous enough to justify the…
A few years ago, in one of my old journals, I wrote: I’m no Stoic, but I deeply relate to being one. Back then, I don’t think I truly understood what those words meant. They came from instinct rather than knowledge—a…
Life is all about perspective. It's our perspective that defines our view and understanding of the world around us. And so, by changing perspective we can, in a way, change the world. Not always in the literal sense, but by changing our perspective we can definitely change our…
Everyone knows the Mad Hatter from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and though I am not implying that you can potentially be as magnificently mad as that fictional character straight out of Lewis Carroll’s…
This post is my attempt at journaling online. And it feels different. Nevertheless, I am willing to try and since I have some things to say, I sincerely hope that this post will be something interesting to read. Let me…
Hello December and hello my lovely reader – let’s have a heartful conversation today. Honestly, it took me some time to come up with the title for today’s blog post. I wanted the title to be the bridge between writing and general life, because recently I have come to a quite…
In Daoism, life is presented as a road which we have to follow. Sounds reasonable and kind of easy, does not it? But the older I get, the less visible this road of life appears to me. It has been a week since I wrote…
Last year, in September, I started one of the most important journeys of my life – this blog. Honestly, it reminded me a trip through a gigantic field covered from sky to ground with smoky white fog. I had no idea…
Everyone has their talents and gifts. No one is born without it. However, looking back I remember a few people that I believed to be the most talented and gifted people I had ever met. They created without meaning to…
Burnout is real! I know it after years of fighting and refusing to believe in its existence. I was a solder in the army of my creative bits that drove a stake of pain through my middle each time I was thrown under a…
Fear—it has been so hard to keep its teeth in the muzzle lately and I am not talking about fear of spiders, this kind of fear is a beast completely different in its nature. It is a fear of making a mistake that exists…
Language is more than just a way of communication. It is a form of identity. It is a wire that shapes your thoughts and helps you to express yourself to the world. Language is a DNA print that gives you all the…
I love the world; this new world where my voice is promised to be heard and where my heart does not have to go through the tunnels of deceiving in order to survive the censured reality of outside world. I can finally…
2020 started as a swift spin down. Many plans and goals, hopes and visions were forced to be put on hold. Time slipped through our fingers with the speed of waterfall and I know, many of us feel like there is no hope…
Please, don’t get me wrong: this is not a note to add to the established image of a writer. This is a short blog post written by a writer without spectacles. Spectacles and hat – the main attributes for the sacred ritual of writing through writer’s block (for those who believe…
I have too many flaws to live a passive life if such kind of life can be called a living. All goes according to the plan! I repeated this phrase so many times that even walking blindly ahead started taking a shape of some plan. I did not have plan though, not really. I just had…
I remember good days like a vague outline of the bridge which I enter on the days, dark like night sky. It affects my writing. It affects me. It affects people, I care about. And even though there is no way to dispel…
When I say the hardest and lowest-paying job, what do you imagine? Maybe a stiff office without air conditioning in the middle of a desert, or a hellish kitchen with Gordon Ramsay’s doppelganger shouting and throwing…
A few months ago I took a very important decision. I decided to take my first in years month off writing and use the time to recharge my personal resources. It was not easy, especially the first week. I was anxious and wired to the same thought that I was wasting my time. Each…
2014 was a year of challenges for me. I had just finished high school and it was officially time to make big decisions for my future. At that time, it had already been around three years since I seriously started…
