Tag: #lifelessons

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Life on clouds

The Space Between Us

Somewhere along the way, we started confusing love with fusion. We celebrate couples who do everything together. They share hobbies, friendships, passwords, opinions, social media accounts and sometimes it feels like they even share a single personality. People call it relationship goals. To be honest, in my early twenties, I probably would have called it that too. Back then, I thought the closer two people became, the stronger their love must be. It took me years and a fair amount of life to realize that closeness and losing yourself are not the same thing. Read more

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Existentialism

Twentyfive Lifetimes On One Tiny Planet

Here’s a thought that completely messed with my perception of time lately. The time between us and Jesus is roughly 25 lifetimes. The time between us and the Egyptian pharaons is about 45 lifetimes. That’s it. Not thousands of years, not some impossible distance lost in the fog of history, just 25 or 45 people passing life to the next person: you, your parents, your grandparents and so on. Keep going and after only 25 lifetimes, you’re standing astonishingly close to events that shaped civilizations, religions and cultures that still influence the world today. Read more

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Life stories

A Dot Between Two Lines

Life is temporary. A dot between two black lines.

I’ve been sitting with this thought a lot lately. Not in an existential way, but in that quiet, grounding way that puts things into perspective. One day, we’re here. The next, we’re not. It’s always been this way for each and every one of us. A quiet blink in the cosmic eye. A sentence on the page of the universe. And while that might sound grim at first, to me, now, it’s oddly comforting. It means the pressure is off. I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to be present. To show up, take a breath, and if I’m lucky, make that dot shine a little brighter while it lasts.

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Existentialism

39, a Tumor and the Truth About Life

“A what?”

“A tumor”

“A tumor as in the cancer kind of stuff? The one that can flip you from alive to dead in the blink of an eye? You’re kidding me, right?”

The day I was told I had a tumor was the most eye-opening day of my life. You think you’ll handle news like that with strength, to stay positive, be brave. But then your mind takes off on its own, making connections you never imagined.. And suddenly, the question crashes into you like a freight train: What if I’m going to die?  Read more

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Bookshelf no7

Committed. A love story – Elizabeth Gilbrets

I’m in the middle of a book about marriage, borrowed from a friend, like many of life’s biggest questions. Marriage has always stirred something in me. Not just curiosity, but a kind of restless wonder. Among all the existential questions that occasionally camp out in my mind, a few wear wedding rings.

I still remember a moment from my teenage years, one of those imprints that time doesn’t blur. My mother, with her unshakable realism, said to me: “Every marriage looks perfect from the outside. But once you’re inside, there’s no guarantee that your home will ever feel truly peaceful again. Arguments creep in when you least expect them, usually over children or money.” Read more