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I was looking at some old photos and what I saw always were happy smiling faces. How good are we at lying?

Not that the photos were fake, but they only presented a side to reality, a small part of the actual life and feelings I was living.
I had several break up with my ex gf in those photos, and it wasn’t so clear from them, but I know it.

Photos show just a theatre, a show, put just in place for your memory.
It is your job to remember the rest, and to store that into your memory so that what truly counts will stand the test of time.

A friend of mine developed a nice trick in her relationship. Whenever she or her SO would start to discuss with too much antagonism, she would make a movement, a movement that’s funny for both of them and that they have somewhat agreed on before.

That movement says “you’re overheating, slow down”, and for them it works perfectly.
I am amused by such solution and it’s a fantastic way to fix the common problem of anger, rage, and discussing the wrong way.

The more time passes, the more I’m inclined to like slow, mind-relaxing activities.
This can space both from a simple wet shaving using old style techniques and barber tools.

Or a good whiskey, a sip of hot tea, a shisha together with friends.

All these activities have one simple hidden goal: slow down.
In a world where we all run, where we all feel like we’re missing the time or the moment, we should feel the urge to slow down, to relax, to enjoy the single moment that we are living right now.

Simply because there’s too much we’re risking to lose that we can’t even imagine.

I’ve got a friend who recently told me that he stopped making photos because otherwise he would lose the moment and he wants to live it fully.

He’s right. Totally right. Even though I feel like I’ll forget each part of my life, he’s right.

In my defence I must say that I recently started taking small videos, this helps me out getting a more focused memory of what I’ve lived in, say, an holiday, but of course I’m nowhere near what he preach.

If you’re irreplaceable at work, chances are you did some part of your job bad or they overlooked you.

Not because of your skill, but because you didn’t allow the structure to grow, making it dependable on you, which is bad (you know, holidays, you want them , right?).

The fastest way to fix this in case you’re not understanding the issue is to broke the system for a while.
Replace you, remove you from the work you’ve been doing and let you work on something else.

This will create disasters on the short term, but in the long term it’ll allow you to have a better workplace.