In solitude, I found the liberty you spoke of. But I also felt your absence. Love stories can be found everywhere in mainstream media: movies, literature, music, the internet. And yet, it’s been a while that I don’t find love stories relatable. That is partly because I grew up seeing couples clichés, or just stereotypes, […]
01.22.2020
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01.02.2020
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Is success equivalent to happiness? How does someone successful looks like? What happens after you succeed? Success is probably one of those concepts that have a personal meaning: what I think of it might differ from what you think because each person have different goals and aspirations. The perspective can also be influenced according to […]
12.16.2019
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Things take time. Particularly friendships and relationships. Sometimes it is difficult to accept, and because of that I wanted to write a story about two persons that meet and get to know themselves fast, accelerating the process of connection. But can you really accelerate the process? What would that entail? In fiction one can question […]
10.31.2019
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In 2019 I had a “summer love”. I don’t know what we were, but it helped me. It helped me to understand how relationships are different and getting closer to answering the question of “what do I want”. After three months kind-of-together, we decided to end the whatever-we-had. But I think primarily it was her […]