The Pain of Becoming: Why Discovering Your Individuality Isn’t Easy And How To Navigate It
Individualism has become a kind of compass in my life. Because if I’m not myself, then who am I? A mask? A performance? A watered-down version of…
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Honesty Is the Backbone of Integrity: How Being Honest with Yourself Makes You Whole
Honesty isn't about facts. It's not about factual truths, either, even though that's how we see honesty in our day-to-day life. But if you look…
World is a mirror. Should I keep silently looking into it?
There is no single definition of what the world we all live in truly is about? Is it about love or is it about hate because the existence of both cannot be denied. On one side of the road can be seen a magnificent…
Let's Talk About Madness With A Cup Of Tea
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…
Quarantine Time. Writing. And new Thoughts to Consider in the Coming Months.
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…
5 Books That Changed My Life
First, I learned to read, and then I started learning to live, or something like that. But really, what can be more beneficial for your life than a good, wisdom-ish friend in the pocket of your jeans or bag? Especially for an introvert-minded person. Books are the best…
Two Books That Saved My Freelance Business
I have already mentioned these two books on my Instagram, but I thought it would be great to dedicate my attention to them one more time here. Why? Because these two books have changed and are still changing the way I…
It's Been A Year and Here Is What I Learned from Being a Blogger...
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…
What It's Like To Be The Least Talented Person In The Room
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…
How I Am Surviving a Burnout and What It Taught Me So Far
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…
The Stage I Am Currently Going Through: Fear Of Making A Mistake
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…
Halo of Being Rejected: Every Journey To YES Starts With A Nasty NO
My entire life is a product of rejection. Hmm… Would it be too much to say that my spin of rejections began at early age and had been dragging my subconscious through all these years with a pompous disdain? Possibly…
Learning English Changed The Course of My Life
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…
Is It a Dark Side of Freedom of Expression or Just a Bad Experience?
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…
Here Is Your Load Of Imperfections. Find Your Strength In It!
If there was a conversation before the life on earth was created, I would imagine it be like that. Nothing is perfect. Fortunately! Beauty has become a target for wars of objective opinions. The lenses through which we…
Joke Is When Everyone Is Laughing. The Rest Is Bullying!
It always starts as joke till someone’s feelings get hurt. I know, humor is much needed and highly appreciated thing in our society. But the problem with it is that so many people use it as a weapon of verbal attacks…
Your Decision Means More Than What Others Think Of It
Decisions! Those are the movers to the best part of living which is action. Standard formula of making a decision is quite simple: it relies on such mental processes as reason, biases, memories, and emotions. Your past…
Read This If You Think People Do Not Understand You
From time to time, my mind explodes with this thought. They do not understand me!—something in me shouts. And for next few days, I am upset, sad, and angry. All because I feel like they do not understand me. But what…
When You Do Not Know What The Hell You Are Doing Anymore
We are not Hansel, nor are we Gretel but so often our lives remind the German folklore tale by the Brothers Grimm. Left with a fake promise, we wonder through the wild of the forest called life, searching for our way…
Why Those Who Want To Kill Your Dream Should Not Apologize
Mad world—what are you doing to the creative minds that are your only salvation? What, not dramatic enough? I think this conversation is not going to be easy for both of us but we have to talk about it anyway. No…
What Do I Think About Happiness
And I think about it all the time, are not you? Really, what word out of millions existing would be good enough to describe what happiness is? Hard to say, is not it? At the same time, the answer seems really close to being easy, trivial even, right on the plate in front of…
Key Strategies To Stay Centered and Focused In Your Life
I’ll tell you a story: once, there was a girl that believed she could do anything. But things she did at the end of the day were not the right things and so, her greatness started slowly dissipating. Is not it what…
Power of Being Limitless. 3 Bullheads of How You Limit Yourself
It took me a while to reflect on this idea – you can be anyone and do anything you want, but for some reasons you keep replacing doors with walls and then cry ‘how unfair life is.’ It may look like the whole world is…
Clarity as a Success Sign
Unimaginable amount of possibilities and opportunities that exist in the world can easily cloud our minds, weaken us, and strip off our inborn greatness. And clarity is the only way to avoid it. I know from personal experience how hard it can be to plan out even just a week…
Thousand and One night of Your Life’s Choice
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…
Writer without spectacles
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…
Why Clients Choose You: Mastering the Freelance Mindset
This brilliant, with its simplicity, question stands at the base of the professional journey called freelance. But how many freelancers can actually answer this question? For a long time, I was following this false…
Uncertain Living as a Freelancer. Tête-à-Tête Business
It’s been almost five years since I first discovered freelance as a way of living for myself. For a long time, I kept definition of freelance and business separate in my mind. When I started out as a newbie in the…
Why Do Artists Want but Should NOT Live in Isolation?
Living a life in isolation does not make you a better Artist! The power of creative minds is the force that makes the Earth rotate, the Sun rise and the life on our planet evolve. But there are four basic conditions…
Story about a Bare Tree and a Mini Guideline to Your Creative Survival
Have you ever seen a leafless tree in the middle of Spring? What would you think if you saw one? Poor tree, it’s probably dying – this is what I would definitely find among a flush of different thoughts in my head at…