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Innocent games

When I was little, my siblings and I used to play a game called ‘The dictionary’. The rules were easy. Someone picked a word, quite a complicated one, and wrote down its official meaning on a piece of paper. The rest of us had to compose a…

Who said astrology?

“Can’t you see how merciful and wise the Universe is? It will always give you back as much as you offer it.” If I had to pick a friend to spend the night stargazing with, I’d choose no other than her. The secrets of the starry sky are some…

About friendship

Sometimes I wonder about the nature of this peculiar phenomenon among people. At times I try to reconstruct the genesis of this sort of miracle. Every so often I want to untangle the geometry of this intangible tie, to extract the recipe o…

TOEFL prompt: Define success and provide three examples. Me: Sure!

Success is a relative concept. The term may broadly refer to satisfactory results due to the achievement of certain goals, but there is a huge range of possibilities if we talk about those. Mainly, everyone could agree that success is the …

Family: a rich text to be decoded

Family is one of the main elements of our lives: the original population of our world, a necessary nourishment for us to survive and the fundamental source of emotional richness and unconditional support. Family forms a small universe whic…

About music

Music is the most intangible art that exists. It spreads as freely as light does, and it has accompanied humans from the very beginning. Even Greek philosophers used to put it at the top of their “sublime list”. No doubts music is a divine…

What on Earth is freedom?

'Freedom'. What a big word. What a simple yet complicated term to define, and how fundamental it is for us all. I guess everyone has their own definition of freedom, or maybe not. Maybe we’ve not really thought much about it and we just fo…

Staying healthy (the motivation behind)

These days, in order to stay healthy, many people join gyms or sport clubs, run in the street, follow diets, practise yoga, get many kinds of body treatments, eat organic foods, seek information about the latest trends in training or dieti…

The thing about 'change'

Whether it is good or bad, change is an undeniable element in this experience we all call life. You can show as much resistance as you want against it, but change has been, is and it will always be there to give you a quick slap, to pinch …