but sometimes that’s all you can do. A friend, or a stranger, or… it doesn’t matter who. A fellow human being who needs to share something of what they’re going through, something of their struggles, their pain – they can’t always articulate it. Pain doesn’t always fit neatly into coherent sentences. I’ve been told I’m [...]
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Can you switch it off? yes, you can.
I love modern technology. I love the way it enables me to communicate with my family and friends back home in Israel without having to wait for letters to travel back and forth. I love the way it has enabled me to get to know people from other countries and to build cross-cultural friendships. I [...]
Note to Self
Just because someone has asked me a question,
it doesn’t mean I have to engage with it.
And it most definitely doesn’t mean I have to engage with it right now.
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This kind of relates to the Someone Is Wrong on the Internet syndrome – I’ve been having to learn Continue reading
Useful weapons
I wrote earlier about my battle with SAD, about choosing to listen to the voice of experience as opposed to the voice of doom and gloom – depression tells me I can’t do anything, depression calls me to give up, but the voice of experience reminds me that I’ve been through this before and I’ve come [...]
Learning not to listen to the lies
once again waking up feeling tired, feeling like I need time out, I can’t do anything today, I need to just curl up on the sofa with the Saturday paper and – – - but experience tells me that the blues have to be fought against, not succumbed to. and even better: experience tells me [...]
