Pixie dust, Murphy's law and unicorns, or why changing your beliefs system could actually change your life, one day at the time

One should believe in something, sure.
It doesn't matter if one decides to believe in religion, rationality at any cost, pixie dust, ethics, Murphy's law, tolerance, happy endings, science, unicorns, morality, magic, logic, the good intentions of all human beings, music, the laws of attraction, karma, the three main concepts of the French Revolution, the power of now, serendipity or just in oneself.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little. 

James Hilton [1900-1954] 

[Tinker Bell's Pixie Dust -

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One should believe in something. Totally got it.
But what if one should not be able to believe any longer?

What if believing would hurt too much? What if believing would actually not even hurt any longer because one is just so sure that it is normal not to believe and that doing otherwise would only cause further pain, disappointment, and dissatisfaction?

A ton of not so romantic and yet pivotal questions about attraction & falling in love, or just yet another blog post about the classic plot "Boy meets girl"

Boy meets girl... a classic and even archetypal plot that can describe in just three words the main idea of thousands of movies, books, songs, theatrical plays, comics, and other kinds of storytelling. 

We could also say "Boy meets boy" or "Girl meets girl", if diversity, political correctness, and inclusion are as important to you as they are for me, and yet the sexual orientation of the individuals that are falling in love would not make such a great difference.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Katherine Mansfield  [1888-1923]

The most important thing is that two people, previously two strangers to each other, at some point get to know each other and fall in love.

[Boy Meets Girl by Brandon Kallmes,

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What exactly do we love, when we are in love? What do we find interesting and attractive in another person? Is this something that can change over time, or do we tend to fall in love over and over again in the same way?

True pathogens, opportunistic pathogens and the life motto that can help you to recognize the true and loyal friends in your life

Do you know the difference between true pathogens and opportunistic pathogens?
To which kind of pathogens are you exposed on a daily basis?

In the medical literature, it is common to differentiate between "true pathogens" and "opportunistic pathogens": while true pathogens are viruses and bacteria that can be harmful for all individuals and are responsible to cause specific diseases, opportunistic pathogens are not always harmful for healthy individuals but can be very threatening for individuals with a weakened immune system.

I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true. 

George Agostinho Baptista da Silva 

better known as Agostinho da Silva [1906-1994]

[True vs. Opportunistic pathogens

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Lately I came to the conclusion that this could be a great analogy for something happening in our day-by-day life too, where all of us are exposed to other kinds of opportunistic pathogens:

The paramount importance of showing up, and what two powerful quotes by Aristotle can do for you in the process

It has been a while since my last blog post, and I could go on and on while telling you how I spent the last four months, how incredibly and deeply my life has changed, how much I have changed myself and how far I still want to go with this.

And I will probably do it. In the weeks or months or years to come, since we are talking big changes here.

At the same time, I strongly appreciate the motto "Show, don't tell" and I believe that the best way to come back after such a long silence is just... to come back. To be back, to be here again, while writing this post for you.

To show up again and to stick to the decision to be back and to keep posting new content in the future, day by day.
To show you how I have changed, post after post and week after week, instead of just sitting here and explaining to you how I did it.

For my comeback, I chose two inspiring quotes by the Greek philosopher Aristotle [384 BC – 322 BC]. It is somehow funny to me opting for Aristotle for my very first blog post written in 2016, since I was not used to liking him when I was learning philosophy at school, and yet Aristotle's lean and very pragmatic point of view is still powerful and modern after over two thousand years.

The following quotes are perfect for getting motivated and staying on track every day and they contribute to maintaining and building up an effective and strong mindset. 

We are what we repeatedly do. 

Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle [384 BC –322 BC]