I always tried to be perfect. In everything that I do. Absolutely everything had to be perfect, without any mistakes. If I made any mistake, it was a tragedy. As if everything I had done right would have been canceled by that mistake, it simply hold no value any more because I made a mistake. I think that you can imagine how difficult it is to live like that. Not only that everything had to be perfect, but I also had (and still have) very high standards. It’s easy to be perfect when you have low standards which are easy to reach and almost impossible if you have very high…

The more you believe that people are good, the more people will show you the good in them! Today I had a very beautiful realization. I actually wanted to write that I had the most beautiful one, but I stopped when I realized that this is how I feel very ofter… that I had one of the most beautiful realizations yet. And this is making me very happy because it means that I am living life being aware of what is happening for me and that somehow everything seems to be beautiful for me and to bring me joy. It is so beautiful to have my joy come from within,…

I think one of the biggest challenges we have as humans is to have the courage to say what we feel, what we think, what we want. The hardest one is to say what we feel. Why? The answer is very simple: we are afraid to be hurt, to be rejected, to be abandoned. Moreover, sometimes we do not even allow ourselves to accept what we feel. Because if we accept what we feel, there is a chance that we could lose that person and therefore suffer. So we prefer to suffer a little by denying our feelings rather than risk our heart being crushed later. The saddest part is…