As a child, I was extremely fond of fairy tales. I had an enormous number of books—tales by various authors, tales from different countries and different regions. They were my doors into a world that could be as big as I could imagine it. I read them and reread
When I was a child, we played all kinds of games. We spent a lot of time outside, so many of them were meant to be played in large open spaces, and very often they involved lots of people. I loved it that way. The more people, the merrier. One
Bridge Many years ago, when I was a teenager, I had a conversation with my friend's boyfriend. He was almost superhuman at maths. He solved the most difficult mathematical problems with such ease and speed that you would never believe it was possible unless you had seen it
Key When I hear the word key, my memory immediately takes me back to my grandmother's house, back to my childhood—to a place of unlocked doors, mooing cows, crowing roosters, endless potato fields, freshly cooked eggs (collected with my own hands) with homemade butter (also churned by
So many cups in the world — so many shapes, colors, and sizes. For me, a cup of tea or coffee is a moment to calm down, to have a quiet break, a moment for myself. It’s like stepping aside from the road of life, along which I was moving
I guess the word has a different meaning for different people. For some it’s just food, for some it’s a profession, for some a means to survive. For me, it has always been a sign of stability — not always consciously realised, not something I focused on, but something
Our generation has been living by the pattern “the quicker, the better” ever since we were born. The earlier you start reading, the earlier you can begin learning to write or move on to whatever comes next. The earlier you go to school, the earlier you finish it. The more
Control and Stability Control and stability are closely connected, but they move in different directions. Control operates outside us, while stability is rooted within. The self and its boundaries form the line where one turns into the other. When our responsibility ends, stability quietly turns into control. Stability is inner
Expectations are our blessing and our curse at the same time. They protect our nervous system from the uncertainty of the new — but they also create a lens that gradually blurs reality. We can approach relationships in two ways. We can start gently, see things as they are, face the
I was considering for a while where to begin before writing my first piece here. Do I simply enter mid-stream, as if this were chapter ten of a book? Or do I start with a proper introduction of myself, the things I care about, and what I will be
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