“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, … Continue reading Imaginary sword fight
“I know it’s probably wrong to fantasize about giving a nun a karate chop in the neck, but I couldn’t help it. She was making me mad.” ― Meg Cabot, Shadowland I was sitting in the back of the bus minding my own business, as always lost in my own thoughts as the door opened … Continue reading Duct tape
“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” ― Oscar Wilde I was sitting in the one room apartment in my underwear while sucking on a very long Twix stick. It was not because of the heat; it was actually quite chilly. My muscles were aching from sitting all … Continue reading The happy princess and other tales
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ― Nelson Mandela I believe the day they told me it is ok to take the easy way I was not paying attention. … Continue reading Nausea
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.” ― Buckminster R. Fuller The need for labelling and categorising everything we encounter with the intent of finding the truth behind it, has deeply impacted our … Continue reading The bathroom stall
“There will be moments when you have to be a grown-up. Those moments are tricks. Do not fall for them.” ― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things I used to go to the dentist once a year but then you know, life happened. Finally, I got around to make an appointment … Continue reading The aspirator
“If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it’s placed into a pot of cool water that’s gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try to jump out.” ― Richard Beckham II, Frog in the Pot When the world is … Continue reading Chekhov’s gun
“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.” ― Philip Slater Mother’s Day. Like Father’s Day is … Continue reading Cake
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of … Continue reading Recipe
“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Getting beaten up a lot as a kid has a strange effect on people. I’m not talking about kids mobbing kids. I’m talking about grown ups beating kids. Let’s address for a second the fact that … Continue reading The iron
Aromatic deception 
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