Category: Friendship
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Are You Honouring Your Friends?
When we think of empowerment, let’s not forget the ones closest to us. Let’s listen to them, acknowledge their struggles and honour them. What an amazing source of empowerment that can be! Just like we are to others.
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Growing Pains Suck. Let’s Frame Them in a Healthy Way and Ask For Help
When things are tough, don’t forget they you are not alone. And you’re never helpless. When faced with stress, overwhelm, anxiety or any other emotion that we deem unpleasant, please remind yourself about the tools that you have – including friends.
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Something to Open Our Hearts
I think that sometimes someone’s presence and kind words are enough to remind us that a life of love and inner peace is possible. On the first day of this year – or on any other day – we can get that radiating kindness from Thich Nhat Hahn.
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Don’t Forget to Connect! (Two Tips on How to Do It)
If you are feeling a bit – or a lot! – disconnected, please keep reading. Because I wanted to share two quick tips with you.
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UNLOCKED IN A LOCKDOWN: You’re Invited!
It’s not a challenge, really (I’ve only chosen a trendy), but an invitation to open ourselves up to one single concept each day, to think about it more deeply, and see what it does to us. What it unlocks. Kindness, compassion, courage, and everything that comes with them.
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End of the Year Friend-o-hon a.k.a. That One Way How Money Can Buy Happiness
I know it’s the end of January and reflecting on 2013 seems somehow…too late (yeah, no more thoughts of what has happened in the past!). And yet, since ‘less procrastination’ didn’t make it on my new year’s resolution list (making the list haven’t made it to my previous list so it’s not a real thing),…
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It’s All About Kindness, Isn’t It?
A good friend recently interviewed me about my not-so-recent time in Thailand. There were plenty of cases of going off on tangents, of course, us remembering our summer and planning some sweet time ahead. Her last question, however, was back to the point. She asked me about the things I’ve learnt during my stay. Not…
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Poland: Linguistic Adventures in The Exotic South
(Yes, I will begin again my promoting some band I’ve recently discovered. In my head, it is related to this entry as it was one of pieces of the soundtrack of my bus ride. How much sense it makes for you is something I refuse to question) Fighting laziness and catching up with writing: once…
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Berlin + Buses + BFFs
During an eighteen-hour bus ride I found some time to reflect on matters deeper than how come the vast majority of movies on the bus TV are so shit. As the wheels of my Vilnius-Berlin bus were turning, not only did I watch Inception for the 4th time, but also I remembered a conversation I…
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Isaan: What You Do When You Don’t Do Anything
For the ones secretly hoping that my writings will one day turn into a proper travelblog – please use our beloved Wikipedia or Wikitravel and see for yourselves what Isaan is. For me, it is a region in Thailand a 12-hour bus ride away from Chiang Mai, and a place where I recently went to visit…
Investigative Selfism 