What makes a city feel like home? Initially, I wanted to write a story about Warsaw, to share the city through my own perspective. And I will – spoiler alert – but not this time. Instead, I want to reflect on something bigger. In my opinion, Warsaw is a great place to live, even with…
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Reflections on World Mental Health Day
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day, so it is time to take something from my head and my phone notes and write about it here. Why is it that when someone breaks a leg, we treat it as an emergency and instinctively show compassion, but when it comes to mental health issues, many of us…
Redefining failure and anxiety of being behind
Why are we all afraid of failure? And what are we exactly afraid of? Judgment from our parents? From our family, friends, and colleagues? From a Judgy Judy neighbour, creeping at us from the window, but not knowing how to handle their own shit? From society? From ourselves? Or basically all of the above and…
Back to Writing: A Long-Awaited Return
It’s been six years since I last wrote for the internet. If you’re new here, let me take you on a quick trip down memory lane of my past blogs. The first time I wrote for a wider audience was because I fully believed to be a voice of a generation (catching that sparkle from…