about everything in (my) life
Yesterday I met a friend and ex-colleague I hadn’t seen in a longtime. We had a lot to catch up and ended up talking, among other things, about toxic relationships at work. And this morning I came across this, in a newsletter (from this recently discovered amazing blogger) abound boundaries in professional contexts: “Something I’ve […]
MoreI have been reading many times in different outlets and on social media accounts in the past weeks about how we should experience boredom more often and how we would be benefiting from it. Personally, I have the tendency to fill my free time with as many activities as possible. I don’t feel I am […]
MoreIn 1999 I went to the movies with my mom to see “All about my mother”, by Almodovar. I loved it. We laughed and cried during the movie and I remember leaving the cinema with the heart full of emotions. I also remember telling my mother that after watching the movie I felt like having […]
MoreCan’t believe it’s been 5 days already! Time is passing fast for me. My mood is good. Well, I have to say that in Belgium it has been a lighter lockdown than for instance in Italy, France and Spain, because we are allowed to go out for walks as long as we are not more […]
MoreHuman beings are social animals, said Aristotle. Others said that we come to the world and die alone. Some teenagers feel alone even at a party, surrounded by people. Others hate silence, cannot stay by themselves, and fill any type of ‘void’ with sound, noise, people, distractions, activities. An interesting kind of social animal, the […]
MoreMy mom would have been 75 yesterday. I will never know what it means to have a mom as an adult. Someone who still takes care of you but with whom you can have an adult to adult conversation. Someone who knows you since the very beginning and saw you every small change you have […]
MoreI am aware that the families that we see on screen don’t exist. Mine is farther than those ideal ones than some others – still, they don’t exist. However, they are not unreal just because they are romanticised, but also, among other things, because how they deal with conflicts is unreal. The conflicts that arise […]
MoreI am watching ‘This is us’ at the moment, an American drama TV show. To be honest I wasn’t so convinced about starting to watch it, friends had told me good things about it (and it got 8.7 on IMDB!), but I thought it was going to be very sappy. And it is. But it’s […]
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Blabbering of a millennial 