The easiest way to get someone’s face to freeze in a horrified and confused rictus like that is, when you’ve entered into conversation, to share facts, figures and nothing but cold, administrative objective truths. It’s not showing our strengths or how good our life is going, or how cool we …
Since it’s halloween, this is another of a Deep Dive into the emotion that dictates most, if not all, our decisions –fear. What do you have to lose by saying hi to someone you find interesting? What possible destruction to our life that could be done to us just by …
The whole point of meaningful conversation may be one thing… to try to understand one thing we can never ever truly know… and that’s: what it’s like to be YOU. I can never know truly what goes on in your mind, and you can never truly know what goes on …
The times when we most connect to someone else, on a deep level, might not be when they show us how strong and invincible they are; it might be when they show us vulnerable they are. An when they show you their vulnerability that’s not out of a out a …
Qual è la vera vittoria, quella che fa battere le mani o battere i cuori? – Pier Paulo Fasolini Everything you do (that you choose to do) is done for one reason: to feel something. And whatever you do, is it better to do it for the applause, the plaudits, …
Why do you do anything? Why do you everything you do? To feel something. And that feeling specifically? Connection. Connection to yourself, who you want to be, who you were as a kid, who you want to be one day… connection to others and connecting to trying to understand what it’s …
Unless you have split personality disorder, there’s probably never ever a time when you look at yourself in the mirror (or talk to yourself) and truly want yourself. You know, actually look at yourself and desire to be with you, intimately. (In case you do do that though, I can tell you …
If someone’s decisions seems odd or completely understandable to you, they’re probably a no-brainer to them. And even if you think you do understand the motivations and reasons for their decisions or what they do, you probably only know a part of the picture. Natasha in Tolstoy’s War and Peace is misunderstood, …
Do other people sometimes act weird according to you? And other times is it quite expected? The only thing unites (or divides) you and those people may be the what they do, but it may perhaps in no way at all be the why. Think about your entire life up until …
There’s one thing that connects you to every other person, everyone you care about, no matter where they are around the world. And that’s the cosmos. So even if you’re on the other side of the world from people you care about, you can still share real life experiences (ones …
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