Even at night, your own shadow leaves you

With all the opportunities to connect with others around the world, why do we still feel alone? From social media to instant messages, we can connect with people worldwide. But many have felt that the increased use of social media is linked to depression, loneliness and social anxiety. It seems the promises that the digital...

Amazing Results I Found Out From Swimming for 30 Days

I never knew how to swim for most of my life. As a kid and I always had to stay in the shallow end as I couldn't swim. Enough is enough, I thought. When I was around 30, I decided I would teach myself to swim. I decided to get myself a monthly swimming membership...

2 life-changing benefits from deleting my social media accounts

Social media is fun. What's better to have a quick 5 mins break from work than to scroll through your phone and see how many likes you have. What turns out to be an innocent 5 minutes usually turns into an hour. This adversity happened more often than I liked. So I decided to pull...

3 Awesome Methods Proven To Actually Help You Overcome Your Problems

Your mind is quite powerful if you know how to use it. Used right, your mind can steer you safely through every storm of life or make you drown in inches of problem. Most people don't use it efficiently. Your mind is like a hotel with limited capacity, so be cautious of what you fill it with....

How Having Goals in Life Can Help Reduce Depression

I took my wife out recently. We spoke about random issues and the topic of happiness came up. She asked me if I’m happy with life. I responded I’m either happy or neutral. And I couldn't remember the last time I was down or depressed. She said, “you must get upset when you see people...

What I Gained From Cutting Out Music and Why You Should Too

I loved music I used to listen to a lot of it. The first thing in the morning, before getting out of bed, and the last thing at night, I had my headphones on. Even though most people have a positive experience with music, it wasn't the same for me, I listened to music all...

from depression to bliss – my journey

i was depressed. i didn't know why, i didn't know how to stop it, i was extremely successful in hiding it from everyone, but as soon as i was all alone thats when my depression came, my depression was was like a superhero's identity, hidden from the people, only to come out when i was...

stop living in the past

if there's one thing i have learnt over the last couple of years its that nothing lasts. especially after covid, what's considered normal now could drastically change, i was about to find out the hard way. I was speaking to a friend. he hated his work and his life, he felt his life was stuck...