The Beauty of Sadness

Are negative feelings just bad? Or are they necessary? Perhaps there’s even beauty to find in them, if they are lived as moments of personal growth. In time, I’ve had several occasions to talk about what I call the beauty of sadness, so I thought I would just write down […]

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Loneliness: my Dark Lady

Do you feel lonely? Of course you do. We all do. Loneliness isn’t just a feeling like love, hate, envy or happiness. Nothing that brief. Loneliness is an inescapable state of the existence. You can run from it, it will always find you back. You can fight against it, you’ll […]

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The Committed Friend Conundrum

I was discussing with a friend over lunch about friendship, and here is a conundrum: is it right to always follow your own wishes, notwithstanding who’s around you? Or should one think of his friends, take care of the relation, also when you’re not really up for it? Friendship doesn’t […]

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Reykjavik and the Golden Circle

When you travel to Iceland, there’s a couple of day trips you can’t miss. Find the highlights in this post, and some extra thoughts, mostly about the hidden people. The main reason I went to Iceland was really the Laugavegur trail. However, I had time to spend in Reykjavík and to go […]

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Relaxing in Isla Margarita

Long, beautiful white beaches, good food, cheap, Isla Margarita is a place to relax and have a good time, and offers plenty of activities and distractions such as horse riding, swimming with dolphins, or visiting a hippocampus infested mangrove forest 🙂  It’s such a delicate animal, so transparent you can actually […]

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