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Gambling with the life
First, you are destroying your life, then the lives of the closest people and in the end – you become a problem to society. This is how most of the gamblers describe their golgotha which will ask for a lot of will, patience and support of the environment to go through and return to somewhat…
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You Are Imperfect and That is Okay
Everyone can feel inadequate, incompetent or not enough from time to time. Accepting this side of our humanity can be quite painful and distressing. We can embrace these features through self-compassion, however, this journey can be intimate yet terrifying. To understand self-compassion better, we can try to understand what compassion is generally. Compassion We can…
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Night Queens of Skopje
Dazzling costumes, fabulous dancers, and vibrant ballrooms. Between the glamour, there is a story of queer expression, creating safe spaces and celebrating culture. Since the 19th century, drag has been a subculture playing with gender and social boundaries. Rooted in the queer community, drag is about self-expression and performing art. It questions identity and challenges…
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Keep Dreaming
The question of the connection between mental health and active participation in the community and social initiatives is a contemporary topic that is the focus of the “Keep Dreaming” project. The project consists of several activities with partners from Macedonia, Spain, Italy and Greece aiming at making the connection between these two topics and providing…
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Understanding happiness
‘’happiness, noun. The state of pleasurable contentment of mind; deep pleasure in or contentment with one’s circumstances.’’ – Oxford English Dictionary. Humans have been searching for happiness since ancient Greek times. According to The World Happiness Report of 2023, Finland is the happiest country in the world, and Afghanistan is at the other end. How…
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Me Generation
Once upon a time, a group of animals met in the forest to discuss their importance. The lion bragged about its strength, the peacock showed off its feathers, and the fox boasted about its knowledge. But the mosquito interrupted, “You all may be great, but I am the most important. I can make a mighty…
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Classical Ballet in a Modern World – Breaking with 400 years of Elitism
In the world of ballet, movement has elegance. Telling stories to classical music, showing the audience the beauty of dance. The aim is nothing but perfection, hiding blistered feet and hurting muscles behind a smile. It’s a world of perfect poses, pirouettes, strong bodies, rose pointe shoes – and light skin? Dissolving from the noble…
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ESC over the Atlantic – yes, it’s possible!
In this article, through my words I will try for you to take a grasp of how I am spending my time on a short-term European Solidarity Corps project, which luckily brought me to a very unusual destination over the Atlantic, a small island country known as Aruba, 9000 kilometers from home. At the same…
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Plastic rain
As we already know, microplastic has been detected in our bodies. Lungs, brains, hearts, blood, placenta, feces. It’s in the soil where we grow our food and in the air we’re breathing. This concerns animals as well. The toxicity is still being studied but I think we can all agree that it’s most likely not…
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A sailors’ life
The earth has everything to offer and so much more, yet we think about migrating to the cosmos. Similarly the mainland has plenty to offer, yet we pull to the seas. I was born with sailors’ blood in a sailors family. From before I can even remember I’ve been taken along on boats and surfboards.…
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Growing Up in a Culturally Diverse Island
Everyone remembers their childhood as a time of wonder and of great discovery: one day you could be learning why it rains, and the next you might be cooking your first meal. It’s the time to observe and ask questions, to be eager to learn how the world works… It’s generally considered to be some…
