Personal Development

Perhaps love is the hand that caresses the weather

How else could one explain the calm with which troubled days settle down, slowly, like leaves upon the surface of water? In its presence, the seconds lose their sharp edges and soften, as though time itself were given a warmer, gentler skin. Love never arrives with noise. It slips in, almost unseen, in the way […]

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An Ordinary Afternoon, or Perhaps Not

It’s just an ordinary afternoon… or at least it seems so.The sun has softened; it no longer burns, it only caresses with its weary light. Swallows cut across the sky with swift wings, tracing fragile arabesques above an air that waits for rain. I can feel it: the sky is holding its breath, like a […]

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The Stranger in the Mirror

We move through the world like drifting islands, convinced that we are separate, unique, and untouchable. And yet, around us there is always a “stranger” who, without us knowing, mirrors us and completes us. The stranger beside me may be a colleague at work, the neighbor next door, the passerby I meet by chance in […]

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A Small Life… a Story About Us

We often live in a world that teaches us to compare ourselves to the stars, yet forgets to show us how to love the spark. We wake in the morning with hurried, restless steps, as if life were a train that, once missed, would never come again. We seek our purpose in grand things — […]

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"Maybe I don’t know how to love..."

Maybe the luck of being loved isn’t given to everyone… but me? If I’m honest with myself, I don’t even know if I’d know how to love, if I were given the chance. I mean… not truly. Not for real, with my whole soul, with all my courage, without holding back. I’m afraid. I’m afraid […]

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Age Gaps in Relationships: Who’s Truly Happier?

No one prepares you for the questions that come with love when the years don’t line up.We’re not taught how to carry the awkward silence in a room where someone asks, “But how old are they?”No one teaches us how to respond when the stares become interrogations or when other people’s thoughts sound louder than […]

I Choose to Be Happy

Happiness doesn’t come knocking at your door, holding flowers and wearing the perfect smile of a dream come true. It isn’t brought by fate, nor by a benevolent star. Happiness is a choice—a decision made in the silence between two breaths, when life offers you not what you want, but what it has to give. […]

Thoughts Without a Thinker

from a corner of consciousness… There are days when thoughts appear without being called. Without being searched for. Without even being wanted, sometimes. They come out of the blue—or maybe not out of the blue, but from some kind of invisible space that contains me more than I contain it. I don’t know if you’ve […]