Hail to the anime community that grew bigger and stronger during the quarantine. Anime series and movies can always keep us company whenever we feel like it. A whole different world from what we are used to, the anime (and manga) world has many many different shows,...
Addiction is a difficult concept to understand, let alone cope with. A taboo issue, even in the 21st century’s society. Hence addicted people tend to feel outcasts, or renounce society because of their mistreatment from their social environment. Their social...
Before the inevitable quarantine, the thought of putting a mask on was perceived by many as unnecessary or even weird. However, without having any other choice, and to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, we all put our masks on and we continue to wear them until...
Isn’t it extraordinary when we find old photographs that belonged to our grandparents? The almost always serious expressions of the people, the way they are dressed and placed to seem serious and proud. Perhaps it is only me. But I find it beautiful. The photographs...
I don’t want the title of this article to foreshadow 2021. Au contraire, amongst other wishes for happiness and health that I am giving to you for this new year, I am also wishing that by the end of this year we will be able to meet again face to face and take the...
Books. Piles of papers tied together nicely that keep us company in everyday life. Novels and novellas, short stories and fairytales are a great part of our culture and almost never absent from our homes. But why are books so irresistible? Why do we keep on wanting to...
A tornado? An earthquake? Reading that Trump is president again? The thought of the new friends movie actually getting produced, with Monica’s and Chandler’s son getting killed? What is in our minds right now that causes a greatly terrifying turmoil and suffering...
As one of my favourite holidays approaches, I’ve started my preparations. The Christmas tree is decorated and shining, my kitchen smells like heaven (and an easy gain of 3kgs) and the city is chilly with a slight smell of burning wood. You see it in the streets, at...
Let’s face some facts. 2020 has been a highly strange year -I’d say terrible but let’s not be extreme-. A global pandemic that is still tormenting us, natural phenomena that caused chaos, etc. From my point of view, I remember myself in December 2019 looking forward...
How many times did we sit down, made a nice long list of our tasks of the day and ended up not doing anything? It happens frequently, especially when we are not in the mood of studying, or cleaning up, or getting out of bed…It is the widely known state of...
Picking a theme as far away as I could from the pandemic, I stumbled on a trend going on TikTok, Tumblr and for a while now, Instagram. The Dark Academia Aesthetic. What’s an aesthetic? The philosophical study of beauty and taste, usually connected...
Hail to the anime community that grew bigger and stronger during the quarantine. Anime series and movies can always keep us company whenever we feel like it. A whole different world from what we are used to, the anime (and manga) world has many many different shows,...
Addiction is a difficult concept to understand, let alone cope with. A taboo issue, even in the 21st century’s society. Hence addicted people tend to feel outcasts, or renounce society because of their mistreatment from their social environment. Their social...
Before the inevitable quarantine, the thought of putting a mask on was perceived by many as unnecessary or even weird. However, without having any other choice, and to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, we all put our masks on and we continue to wear them until...
Isn’t it extraordinary when we find old photographs that belonged to our grandparents? The almost always serious expressions of the people, the way they are dressed and placed to seem serious and proud. Perhaps it is only me. But I find it beautiful. The photographs...
I don’t want the title of this article to foreshadow 2021. Au contraire, amongst other wishes for happiness and health that I am giving to you for this new year, I am also wishing that by the end of this year we will be able to meet again face to face and take the...
Books. Piles of papers tied together nicely that keep us company in everyday life. Novels and novellas, short stories and fairytales are a great part of our culture and almost never absent from our homes. But why are books so irresistible? Why do we keep on wanting to...