The Void: Running Away From Something To Reach Somewhere
Maybe we will keep running towards somewhere. There is nothing wrong with having a horizon. The danger is spending so much time looking at it that we fail to notice what our pursuit is doing to the ground beneath our...
Cherishing Life: The Art of Living An Engaged Life
We spend our lives chasing better days, better opportunities, and better versions of ourselves. But somewhere along the way, we risk overlooking the very thing we are working so hard to improve: life itself. Here is the way to go...
Death By A Thousand Cuts: How a Man Dies a Little Every Day Before the World Notices
There is a particular kind of tragedy that rarely announces itself. But what if the event that ended his life was not the beginning of his tragedy? What if it was merely the final event in a much longer sequence...
Cracks of Imperfection: Meditations From A 35 Years Old on Mid-Life Emotional Mess and Finding Meaning In It
I’m writing this article–as my annual “writing a birthday post ritual" (here are previous year’s entries: 31, 32, 33, 34)–on my 35th birthday with a sublime feeling that I might be at the halfway point in my life (by considering...
34 Harsh Truths I’ve Learned on the Way to 34 Years Old
Today I turn 34. For the fourth year in the row I am writing a piece on my birthday after reflecting on my life. (You can follow the previous ones here: 31, 32, 33). During the 34 years of my...
33 Pieces of Life-Changing Advice I Collected By My 33rd Birthday
Today I turn 33. For the third year in the row I am writing a piece on my birthday after reflecting on my life. This year is different because I am not going to share just the lessons I learned...
18 Insights on Parenting
The time I spent parenting my daughters is the time I learn most about myself and overall about human behavior. Parenting is not easy. We should not approach it with a "On-The-Job-Training" method. We should learn about it, we should...
32 Life Insights From a 32-Years-Old
I turn 32 today. As I mentioned on my 31st Birthday, (you can read about 3.1 Realizations on the way to 31 here) birthdays are not as monumental once we hit thirties. We start getting settled as adults. We start...
Turning Crisis Into Breakthrough
Today, we need a framework for turning a crisis into a breakthrough more than ever. A framework that can help us in dealing with our inner crises: personal and professional frustrations, anger on unmet expectations, too many addictionss and distractions,...
8 Stoic Strategies To Deal With Stress
Here are 8 lessons I learned from Stoicism and using it as daily reminders to deal with stress and to implant peace and serenity in my life.