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Through the Echoes of my Mind
As I’m trying to figure out what I will do with my life in 4 months, once my year of volunteering in VCS will be over, I find myself doing a lot of self-reflections. What am I supposed to do with my life? Why is life so confusing? What is my place in the world?…
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The Globalization of Hearts
It’s well known that travelling from one country to another isn’t always easy; depending on the agreement between the two countries or current qualifications, some countries may require passports and visas from others. However, while this situation may create physical barriers, it demonstrates that emotional bonds cannot be affected by these barriers. Empathy and friendship…
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Feeling excluded
No matter how much my appearance changed, or how old I was or how many friends I have gotten over the years, there is something me and my inner child can both agree on: we are both excluded. Being excluded as a child hurts badly once you realise you will never be part of those…
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Relationships matter
Everything is social relationships. If you think about that statement, there is something utterly true about it. We are humans that depend on social connections so much that the relationships we have with other people can actually become a matter of life or death – not only in a Romeo and Juliet kind of way…
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Beneath Big Brother’s Relentless Gaze: Unraveling a Dystopian Reality
Review on George Orwell’s Novel 1984 1984 is not just a classic or a “good” book that the high school literature teacher propagates with all her pathos. Treating it as such would diminish its values and cloak it with a certain cynical mediocrity. “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength” is the refrain…
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Drama first, love later
A group of conventionally attractive people arrives at the tropical island. The girls let out the obligatory pterodactyl squeak and proceed to compliment one another. Don’t get too excited about the ‘girls power’ vibe, though… in just a few days they will most likely talk trash behind each other’s backs. Next scene, the guys. You…
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What if Epicurus was right?
Before I arrived in Macedonia to work with Volunteers Centre Skopje for three months, I didn’t know what to expect. I knew nothing about this country, its culture, or its pace of life. Yet, from the very first days, a striking contrast caught my eye: here, everything is “chill.” Peace of mind reigns. We work,…
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Walking my heart through Belgrade
A man walks through Belgrade in a straight line. And I don’t mean it metaphorically – he literally moves forward without stopping. No fence, no building is an obstacle for him. As if he was the one with the city. That’s a movie I’ve seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I walked the streets…
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A love letter to hiking
The sun on your face, a little breeze squeezing over your ankles and a spectacular view from a mountain top. All of this is what hiking is about. Exploring nature from its most close form of transportation: walking. On a first glance, hiking might sound dull and even stupid. Why would I decide to put…
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Perfecting Imperfection
When I picked up my first Jane Austen book, I was unsuspecting of what I was getting myself into. To set the scene, I was a clueless eighth-grader that discovered English 19th century literature after picking up “Jane Eyre” by chance in the children’s library two years prior. So, little did I understand of the…
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Be the change
“Change is the only constant in life” – this bit of ancient wisdom, which can just as easily be found on a motivational pinboard as in a philosophy textbook, bears some fundamental truths about the essentiality of change in life. In fact, it is not only the case that each individual life is shaped by…
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