There's a version of me, sitting on a park bench in 2016, who made a promise he didn't fully understand yet. I kept it for ten years — no apps, only chance. Then, on the last night of June, sitting in St. John's, I downloaded one again...
The difference, I've learned, has nothing to do with what happens — and everything to do with whether you're paying attention. I found a small ritual that forces me to stop, once a week, and actually reckon with the time that just passed. It's not always comfortable. But it's changed the way I experience Life entirely...
We don't truly regret what we did. We regret what we didn't do. How many people are serving that sentence right now? The one who said nothing — not because they had nothing to say, but because saying it felt too revealing and somehow dangerous. Almost said it. Almost went. Almost tried. Almost is the heaviest word in the language. And it follows you everywhere...
It's easy to take a photo when everything is going well. But the ones I keep going back to? Never the perfect ones. There's something about reaching for the camera at the wrong moment that tells you everything about what actually mattered...
For years, I've had a habit that sits somewhere between confidence and delusion. Before the interview. Sometimes before the application. I open Google Maps and change my work location to a place that exists only in my imagination. Most of the time, it feels ridiculous. Until one day, it becomes my commute...
We often already know the truth about our relationships, our choices, and our direction in Life. The difficulty is not discovering it, but admitting it in time to do something with it. Because once time passes, honesty still arrives—but by then, it no longer has anything left to change...
From seasonal jobs to spontaneous adventures, I've learned that Life rarely announces its most important moments in advance. More often than not, they arrive disguised as side quests...
For years, I saw every city, relationship, and chapter of life as temporary. Then, in a quiet Dutch cottage, I found myself wishing one moment could last beyond its expiry date...
From Tokyo Drift to living in Tokyo: a personal story of Japan, its cities, and the moments that made me wonder what life there could have become...
Today Yerevan turns 2807, older than Rome, and I left only four days ago with the feeling that something unfinished remained within me. Pink stone at sunset, fountains offering free water to anyone passing by, and Mount Ararat standing still across the border. This is not a city you simply visit. It is a city that reflects you back at yourself, and it taught me that rebuilding is sacred...
We all know someone who says it: the trip that was always about to happen. I have used that sentence too, except mine was true. I postponed my trip to Fiji four times, from August 2020 to December 2022, and still travelled to 12 countries in 2021 alone. Some people travel no matter what, and others hide behind a used and reused phrase. So in a world of “I was meant to go, but you know? Covid...”, be the one who says...
Working out at home S U C K S. There, I said it. The gym closes, the QR code stops working, and suddenly the closet needs reorganizing in the middle of your set. I learned this the hard way, so here are my four rules: start today, write a plan, act as if you were at the gym, and never, ever train in your Hello Kitty pyjama. Because the most dangerous words in fitness are “I’ll start tomorrow”...