There's a commonly discussed idea in the 'helping business', and on courses where such topics as compassion fatigue and considering your own well-being when supporting others are discussed, they may sometimes show one of those airplane safety card pictures where you are instructed to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others. In a … Continue reading It’s my party and I’ll vote if I want to
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Weekend adventuring
As I write this, I am currently on a weekend retreat to the countryside and my head feels less cluttered than it does in the city. I have yet to decide whether wage labour and big city life are in any way human. What I do know is that walks in the countryside, exercise in … Continue reading Weekend adventuring
Doors, opening, closing
Well today, like most days before that, has been a thought-inducing day for me. This morning I visited my therapist for the last time, for now, and so a significant period of time in my life, in a way, came to an end. Life is a series of parallel processes, and here was one that … Continue reading Doors, opening, closing
Writing on writing
The role of creative endeavour in one's life and happiness is what I've been thinking about (among millions of other things of course) in the last few days. My work life is, like for many other people too, stress/frustration/anxiety -inducing, on some days more than on some others, and I have to actively come up … Continue reading Writing on writing
Pihla discusses downshifting, FOMO etc. totally passé concepts
I'm a bit late for this party, downshifting is so three years ago! Fear of Missing Out has probably been discussed to death also. Yet, these are 'My beefs, 2018' (if you get this reference I will love you unconditionally for ever). For it is so that the former would do me good, yet the … Continue reading Pihla discusses downshifting, FOMO etc. totally passé concepts
Well I’ve always hated being a quitter
...and this has resulted in me suffering through many a broken situation, relationship, work/study environment, miserable experience. I like to try my hand at many things and do jump at the chance of doing stuff that sounds/looks appealing. Sometimes the appealing-ness fades quickly, but out of some weird sense of duty I struggle on. When … Continue reading Well I’ve always hated being a quitter
On meeting people
I work in a customer service profession and have, through working it out in my head over the past months, begun to enjoy my job. The system in which I do my job appears to a lot of people as dysfunctional, as many systems that are built from pieces over time (instead of designing one … Continue reading On meeting people
