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Resettling in known territory
Traveling the world and the seven seas is definitely worth it. But then what? Do we belong to a specific place or do we not? Sometimes it doesn’t matter how you would answer that question because some people are regularly or even constantly on the move either for business or personal purposes, or both. Some…
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Peace and balance – bring it back!
It’s not so easy to find peace and balance, especially nowadays, during the time of pandemic. We’re surrounded by different information shared on social media, within TV, by our friends and family, which often influence on how we feel. There are more fear and anxiety felt by everyone in our society and it’s because we…
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The longest ride
Can one explain love? Is it in the smiles we see, the laugh we hear, the blinding sparkle in someone’s eye, or maybe it is the way we touch. There is no explanation really. Are we supposed to know when it’s coming? Are we supposed to see it in the burning sunset or hear it…
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Settling in unknown territory
How do we fit in a whole new foreign environment? As a foreword, I think it is important to underline each experience is unique. There are as many possible scenarios as there are travelers. Having said that, I will happily share my own experience. The transition between the preparation of a stay abroad, and then…
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Learning English
Learning English is not a choice nowadays, it’s an obligation. You can go everywhere in the world if you know English. Besides, it’s a very important criterion for finding a job. Almost every country has English lessons in schools, but students can’t learn English with these lessons. For example, in Turkey, English lessons start from…
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First Impression
The first impression is a psychological term which means that the substructure of a person’s mental image if we think a human in our mind as a building. The first step of construction is building substructure and then building floors. f the building substructure is weak, it doesn’t matter how the floors are. That’s why…
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Self love & Respect
So, do you love yourself? If you do so, in what time is your wake-up alarm set? After your preferred activities do you do something extra, or you just scroll the life away from your cellphone. Do you really know who you are? Your good and bad vibes and good and bad sides? Are you…
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The orientalism of the 21st century
Minimalism. Mindfulness. Meditation. Yoga. Silence of the mind. Elements very present in the present human western moment in time. One can’t go out for a walk in the neighborhood – in a middle-sized town or a great city, in Europe or Latin America – without running into establishments offering services related to these activities. The…
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Share a smile, share love
SHARING IS CARING – short and quite simple saying. I believe we all have used it at some point, however what we should be asking ourselves is: Are we the ones saying it or the ones using it? Are we truly happy if we have it all, but no one to share it with? Let’s…
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Essential oils, nature’s own pharmacy
Essential oils are a gift from nature. They have been used throughout the ages for their physically and mentally healing properties. In the process of making them, the plant is separated from its volatile parts which contains the fragrant ingredients of plants. Essential oils containing plants have, over time, developed these substances to attract pollinators,…
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Why so negative? A data exploration of the world
Talking to people around me or spending just a minute on the Internet I get the impression that the world is going down the drain. War all over the place. Politics is all corrupt. The rich exploit the poor. There are just a few developed countries and a huge, faceless mass of poverty stricken nations.…
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