Who are we if we are not our jobs? For years now I have been attempting to separate my identity from my job title, role or description to be able to liberate myself from the constant mental race through life. The struggle is real, who are we if we are not what we do? If you are asked to…
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The pizzeria manager that guided my career choices!
Years ago, at a moment of despair, I left my desk and rushed through the corridors to a very warm, welcoming library. It’s no surprise that the neon-lit, grey walled library was warmer and friendlier than the spacious, sunlit workspace where my desk was. I have always been drawn to libraries, and I spent the best moments in them. They…
My childhood, Hofstede and that American kid on TV!
Ever watched any American movie and stumbled upon a scene where a teenage boy or girl yells at their parent? Ever wondered how “ill bred” that teenager was? Have you ever paused to think how weak and indulging the parent was? Well, I did, and I got exacerbated and triggered, but I got very curious as well. Growing up in…
Why I will probably be that 50-year-old research assistant
Why I will probably be that 50-year-old research assistant & my journey to recovery Did the title intrigue you? Did I get your attention? Well, let me start with a little story about myself. I am a dentist and in the next few lines I will be telling you my struggle with an obsession, a very difficult obsession that…
The 9 mental barriers I had to defeat to become me
If you are like me, and you probably are, then you have struggled a lot with mental barriers, those pesky thoughts that keep telling you can NOT do a certain thing or that this idea won’t work and when you try to challenge them, they answer back with yet a list of reasons why you should Not be doing this…
Your life in the light of others’
I really do not know what sparked that kind of thinking. It could be the recently ending year that swiftly went by and all the incidents that occurred that tempted me into thinking about what I have accomplished so far, or rather thinking about my life in general, could be! Well that, in turn, led me into thinking about how my self-assessment…
An open letter to you
Dearest other dad: Some may know you by the title; uncle but I know you as my other dad. Every girl has an uncle who is like a second dad, someone who is friendly or tender like a father but it was different for us. My dad provided me with love, tenderness and support and you were guidance. Neither roles overlapped or…
Farewell
The value of music, aside from its inherently substantial power of bringing beauty into our lives, is its other substantial power of providing us with a better rear view. For someone who is constantly looking back, constantly looking back, a habit that never ceases, never stops…ever. A means of self-torment, self-loathing, self-soothing and sometimes self-whipping, mostly self-whipping, for someone like me, music…
Lessons I have learned as a kid
All through my few years of adulthood; I have learned to revisit every lesson I have learned as a kid. I have made a habit of it to criticize, analyze and scrutinize anything that has become a prejudice for me or a predetermined thought…to understand the motives behind every judgment and dig deeper into every social norm. But lately I…