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How to make mistakes

So you’re a perfectionist? You like being in the comfort zone of your own knowledge and experience, only doing what you rehearsed a thousand times, in the fields where you excel. Mistakes.. you despise them, (you were always punished for making them), on the outside you look at flawed people with superiority but on the inside you are sent into a self doubting frenzy every time you break a glass in the kitchen or take a wrong turn on the highway.

Getting desensitized to making mistakes is what you strived for? Congratulations, here is your chance. Because you will make a lot of them. Every minute of every day.

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A statement about being an adult

Adulthood doesn't exist. At least not in the sense that it’s a stage you step into at some point in life, a place where your elders want to see you the latest by your thirties, an elite club to which you automatically gain access when you sign a mortgage.

You've been thrown out of childhood into the unknown, like being spat out of a wave, and you've been trying to figure it out ever since. Always chasing something, career, money, status, things, people..

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How to travel alone

There was a time when I used to love to travel alone. Throwing myself into a new adventure without knowing how it will be like. Being somewhere so faraway that my mundane problems seemed so small (not the ones in my head though but even those seem to be more silent when put into perspective) and life back home having more perspective upon returning.

But now, only two weeks to go until winter holidays, I felt stuck.

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