Memories are so precious to us that we choose to store all sorts of things in boxes as cute and unique as possible. Airline tickets, receipts, love cards, souvenirs, are just some of the things that we store. We store things to keep alive memories that we do not want to give up.Every time we …
My husband and I were looking at a piano performance when he suddenly turned to me and said: piano learning made you become a perfectionist. Until recently, I had no idea I was a perfectionist. I thought I was chaotic and messy until I realized that all the chaos in my life is actually scheduled …
Here’s the thing: for almost two months I’m a married woman, but I do not want to have children in the next 2-3 years. My husband wants to, but after we talked and I expressed my point of view, he understands and accepts my decision. And from here we start to develop the idea. I’m …
Before sleeping, I always try to focus on dreaming a nice thing, but this desire gets rid of me night after night. From the spiders who eat me, to loved ones who die or are injured, to absolute loneliness. That’s what keeps me busy during nights. My dreams are totally contradictory to my everyday life, …
From girlfriend and miss to wife and lady. I’m still not used to being told lady and, much less, to my new name. I had to change my ID, and when I went to pick it up, I walked into a room where there was a gentleman with braces and a grumpy lady in a …
I’m sure you are all familiar with the protests in Romania, which appeared in newspapers around the world. Looking at the news about an event is not enough to really understand the feelings, beliefs, and emotions involved. So I decided to tell you how we felt, us, Romanians, about all these unfolding political decisions, riots, and …
I’m not anything that I wanted to be. Since childhood, we have created an ideal about life, about what personality we will have, about what job, plus other small details that fill the whole picture. I do not know why, but I always imagined that I would be a remarkable business woman, elegant, diplomatic …
This year I spent New Year’s Eve with some friends at one of their homes. We all gathered around a table, poured alcohol, filled an ashtray with cigarettes and talked about different topics. One conversation was about homeschooling, its advantages, and disadvantages. It all began from here. Our opinions were contradictory right from the start. On …
We were in such a rush to grow up and we had no clue that we were, in fact, living the dream. When we were young we wanted to grow up, and when we became adults, we realized that happiness was easier to find in childhood. Growing up is overrated. Now, being adults, we want …
I find myself in a situation: these days I find it hard to organize my time. Last month I worked as much, until 10 in the evening and still managed to write an article per day and discover underrated articles. But really, I was exhausted. I became a kind of a robot, and now when …