Posts in Thoughts

I read an article describing mothers who once did things in raising their children and now "deny" their responsibility... Almost all the comments on the post angrily expose such parents who are unable to acknowledge to themselves how monstrously they sometimes treat their children, as if pretending that nothing of the sort ever happened...

I started recalling unpleasant events from the past related to my former colleagues. These events always make me shudder and strive to quickly forget it all over again. Even now, almost three to four years after all of this, it feels like yesterday to me, and it's awful, disgusting, humiliating, and many other epithets.

I was very close with my mother, and her way of punishing me was always by […]

I don't like gossip. Gossip is filth. Anyone who carries it is a spreader of disease. Even if you just hear something somewhere and say something to someone, even if it's just a little bit, it is still gossip. Gossip is disgusting because by the fourth link in the chain, more than 50% of it becomes false - dirty, murky, nasty lies.

I marvel at Americans more and more the longer I live here, and the fewer illusions I have about them: people are so superficial that they use "friendliness" and "supposedly deeper relationships" as a marketing ploy.

As a child, I loved pulling a blade of grass from its grassy bed, waiting for a pale green, juicy stripe to appear at the end. I would place that tip on my tongue and, with my teeth, squeeze out the sweet, succulent juice.

When there is no drama, art doesn't happen, because art is a form of expression of something inexpressibly bubbling, tearing apart from the inside.

I noticed that the nations that are the happiest are often poorer than the less happy ones. They are also much more prone to teasing and constantly laugh at themselves, each other, and everything around them.

Happiness is not the choice to seek out joyful moments. It's not "Pollyanna," where you try to ignore what disturbs you, pretend you don't see it, and act like everything is fine. That is justifying negativity with attempts to view things positively.

Our consciousness makes it either this or that. What’s missing? Relationships? Maybe there are no bad relationships – that’s also a positive. “If your bride leaves you, you never know who’s actually lucky.” I have so much.