Just the title sounds a bit like I’m keeping something essential from myself; you hear “sleep deprivation” but not Instagram deprivation, right? How essential can this be in our everyday life to call it that? Well, let me tell you a bit more.
All in Life
5 Steps To Better Work-Life Balance
Most of us are busy multitaskers nowadays, with at least studies and work constantly overlapping and demanding our attention, and with not much room left for free-time activities such as hobbies, social life, and rest. This article gives you some tips on how to get started on finding that sought-after balance.
Quarantine Diaries
Isolation. Quarantine. Social distancing. Here’s some of my thoughts and coping habits through this mess we call a life now.
Asexuality
It’s amazing how far we’ve come in a few years when it comes to the representation of sexual minorities. While it’s not perfect, not by far, people of all kinds are finally seeing their demographic appearing and being acknowledged by the media.
Duality
If not for the lack of blandness, oat meal would be OK. I think that’s probably why people use toppings; berries, yoghurt, sugar, and cinnamon. Seems like self delusion to me but what do I care. Healthy…unhealthy, doesn’t make much of a difference once we get to splitting hairs.
Escaping Out Of Fortress Of Solitude
My biggest fear starting university had been the studying part, could I after all these years know how to accommodate to that? However, there turned out to be a part of starting university that I hadn’t even considered to be an obstacle, and that was the social side of things.
How To Survive Christmas When You're The Grinch
So. It’s Christmas. Most of our cohabitants are very excited, after all, it’s Christmas, the jolly family celebration. But what if that’s not your cup of tea? What if you even dislike the holidays?
Tips For Handling Holiday Stress
There’s stress, and then there’s holiday stress. The crushing dread of not having enough time to do things and too many things to do. How are you supposed to survive this and somehow enjoy the holidays?
Tarot Cards - An Investigation
I think we’ve all seen this scene: the protagonist enters a dimly lit, smoky room occupied by a mysterious middle-aged woman sitting at a table. She lays out a deck of elaborate cards to the protagonist who is immediately drawn to a card. They turn it over. The picture? The hanged man.
A Leaf, Falling In The Cold Pavement Of A Late Fall Afternoon
A hunting creative non-fiction story about the not-so-commonly-discussed nature of (reverse) cultural shock and the struggle of acculturation.