Category: articles
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My past is my past
What part of your past would you like to fast-forward or even skip altogether when telling your life story? In stead of curling up in shame, trying to avoid the pain or maybe denying it happened at all, you could try to find some positive meaning to it. What have you learned from it? What…
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Breathtaking
Enjoying life is about enjoying the small things, like this butterfly warming itself in the September sun on one of the few flowers left.
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It is but a dream
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
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No wild-goose chase
I believe it makes a huge difference if you’re being called a ‘stupid cow’ or a ‘genius’ on a daily basis. How can you not believe these words if you hear them over and over again. It becomes a part of you, literally marks your personality. Knowing this, I made a conscious choice to speak…
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What makes sense to me
I know christians as well as atheists who stick to their principles with ardour. They have taken a stand and will not budge. Not when there’s evidence pointing in the other direction, not when an inner voice whispers there might be an other side to their truth. It is their way or the highway. I…
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Don’t cheat yourself out of a choice
“I’m a woman, I should be able to bear children.” I heard a woman say who is physically unable to have children naturally or through IVF. I am deeply sorry for her, not only because she cannot fulfil a lifelong dream, but also because she is not willing to let go of that dream. She feels…
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If I had only one day left
Trying to live each day as if it were your last, seems awfully tiring to me. Frustrating too. I mean, if I had only one day left, I certainly wouldn’t bother cleaning my house or paying the bills. Yet in order to live a balanced life, be happy, it is also necessary to those things you…
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Last of the summer green
Enjoy a last splash of lush green. Delicately filtered light through thinning leafs.
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Reality is superceded by our limited perceptions
‘Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvres in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battlship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the captain remained on the bridge keeping an eye on all…
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Smiles instead of hairdos
While I was riding my bike, I saw this woman walking behind a stroller. She smiled at me. She looked happy. I smiled back somewhat automatically, because all I could think of was her hairdo. So eighties! As I had passed her it struck me that because I had been passing a judgement on her,…