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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)

L'amico che si lamenta ma possiede case

Un mio amico, M., per parecchio tempo mi ha raccontato dei problemi della sua piccola azienda. Era in difficoltà, forti difficoltà, e soprattutto sperava proprio di cambiare vita. Si lamentava costantemente, tanto che quando dovevo incontrarlo facevo tre respironi profondi per…

#money #friends #life

Gli amici che non vediamo mai

Ancor meno vedete i vostri amici («Però vediamoci dài, lo diciamo sempre e non lo facciamo mai!»). In generale, avete relazioni sociali rapsodiche, saltuarie, lacunose.

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Gli anni buoni vanno vissuti adesso

Trascorriamo i nostri anni buoni senza avere mai tempo, senza poter derogare, poter prendere fiato, senza coltivare le amicizie come meriterebbero, perché no, anche rispondendo a un questionario via email. Magari poi ci lamentiamo che dopo quarant’anni di questa vita ci…

#time #friends #life #work

Potare i rami secchi delle relazioni

Un altro bello strumento per imparare i rudimenti della solitudine è smettere di compiere gesti che non hanno senso. Smettiamo di andare nei posti dove non vogliamo andare, dove sappiamo bene che staremo male. Tagliamo i ponti con le persone con cui non abbiamo niente da dirci…

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Stare vicino all'amico che se ne va

Per parecchio non sono riuscito a seguire la sua nuova vita. E questo è uno di quei momenti importanti della mia e della sua storia che ho perduto, che non tornano. Quando un amico vero va via, va in un’altra città, in un altro Paese, bisogna andare a dargli man forte. Lo…

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Separare le conoscenze dalle amicizie

Cambiare vita offrirà, come nel caso del trasloco, una bella possibilità di soppesare le cose, capire chi, perché. Mi riferisco soprattutto agli amici, nome nobile per alcune relazioni che, assai frequentemente, sono sdraiate sulla consuetudine, sulla comodità, sulla vicinanza…

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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)

Hallucinogens as a shared ritual

Eventually, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I thought about the fact that I was now a person who had taken LSD. I was no longer a pharmacological virgin. Taking hallucinogens is a public ritual among some South American indigenous groups, and these societies provide much social…

#psychedelics #culture #friends #tradition

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)

The loneliness of new parents

Loneliness, painful and ubiquitous, is experienced by as many as 80 percent of new parents. After the birth of a child, couples have only about one-third as much time alone together as they had when they were childless. The thrill of having a child wears off, but the incessant…

#parents #solitude #friends #marriage

The Grant Study: relationships make us happy

Since 1937, researchers for the Harvard Study of Adult Development have exhaustively collected intimate data on several hundred people. The project usually goes by the moniker the Grant Study, named for the department store magnate W. T. Grant, who funded the initial work. The…

#happiness #friends #relationship #good-life

Nice people keep their friends

After decades of research burning through millions of dollars, scientists have uncovered this shocker of a fact: We are most likely to maintain deep, long-term relationships with people who are nice. Mom was right. Individuals who are thoughtful, kind, sensitive, outward…

#friends #relationship #emotions #happiness

Dennis The Menace And Gnasher - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Dennis the menace is not a villain

Dennis is an uncontrollable schoolboy who takes pride in causing chaos and mayhem to those around him due to his intolerance for rules and order. Such traits have caused some artists to consider him to be quite the villain. In such strips, Dennis would often prove himself to be…

#pride #traits #friends

Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)

Lontane da tutti nella propria testa

» «Ci sentivamo… come se condividere la stessa aria e gli stessi spazi e la stessa scuola con tutti gli altri fosse una specie di casualità. Nella nostra testa ci sentivamo lontanissime.»

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Durante (Andrea De Carlo)

Né amici né estranei

Ci siamo guardati di nuovo ma senza dire niente, abbiamo fatto gesti a vuoto. In realtà eravamo già ai limiti delle nostre possibilità di comunicazione: non abbastanza amici da scivolare di argomento in argomento senza doverci pensare, non abbastanza estranei da accontentarci…

#communication #friends #relationship

Have You Been Watching ... Orange Is The New Black? | Television & Radio | Theguardian.com

Piper Chapman, the clueless WASP

Series creator Jenji Kohan (who previously made Weeds, another dark comedy-drama with a non-law-abiding lead) mines Chapman's white middle classness for rich comedy; her mother has told friends she is "doing volunteer work in Africa" for the next year. She is the classic…

#New-York #business #friends #Africa

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits

The free spirits

Thus, then, have I evolved for myself the "free spirits" to whom this discouraging-encouraging work, under the general title "Human, All Too Human," is dedicated. Such "free spirits" do not really exist and never did exist. But I stood in need of them, as I have pointed out, in…

#humans #lack #need #friends #title

L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)

Il tatuaggio di Arte e Amore

Si guarda il tatuaggio che ha all’interno del polso sinistro, con le due A rovesciate formate da un serpentello che sale e scende in un cerchio, e che stanno per Arte e Amore. Se l’era fatto a vent’anni, come una dichiarazione d’intenti insieme al suo amico Luca, che tre anni…

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Vite divergenti, unite solo dalla musica

Vanno avanti per qualche minuto a scambiarsi manifestazioni di stupore e rammarico per il fatto di non essersi visti così a lungo, anche se sanno benissimo che avrebbero potuto vedersi prima in qualsiasi momento, se solo lo avessero voluto; è difficile pensare a qualcuno con…

#relationship #music #money #friends

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional

Career change: build your team

Who can help you accept that change happened, recognise opportunities and prepare yourself to embrace them? I enlisted others to help me: personal trainers, physiotherapists, coaches, friends and family. They didn't all know the answers, but they could help me experiment, learn…

#friends #opportunities #family

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)

Ciascuno al posto che la società gli assegna

Nei rapporti sociali non si deve sfoggiare la ricchezza, né la cultura, né l’intelligenza. Ciascuno deve occupare il posto che la società gli ha destinato. Non si dovrebbe mantenere un tenore di vita superiore, ma neppure inferiore al proprio status. Al samurai si suggerisce di…

#society #hierarchy #friends #confucianism

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)

Identity as coordinates on a map of relationships

Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I’d lost Prabaker and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I’d lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates…

#friends #violence #personal-identity

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)

Friend- or enemy-centered people have no security

The individual who is friend- or enemy-centered has no intrinsic security. Feelings of self-worth are volatile, a function of the emotional state or behavior of other people. Guidance comes from the person’s perception of how others will respond, and wisdom is limited by the…

#friends #enemies #identity

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)

Love has to be reinvented

For the first time I understood what a terrible blow banning LSD from psychoanalysis had been. We’ve seen that therapists at the time had reckoned the drug could cut down the average duration of individual analysis by a magnitude of ten to one. This could have meant that…

#psychotherapy #love #friends #psychedelics #relationship

Ecstasy before a first acid trip

What’s more, you could (we were getting quite open-handed by now) add an Ecstasy trip to the envelope and suggest that taking it two hours or so before the acid would provide the best possible introductory set and setting for a first acid trip.

#drugs #psychedelics #friends

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The ant as a responsive hollow

When at last the whole vast list is compiled, and the scientist calls “Finish!” for lack of further time or interest, he may well have the impression that the ant’s behavior is no more than its automatic and involuntary reaction to its environment. It is attracted by this…

#impression #behavior #attention #friends

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)

No time left for family

We spend less time with family and friends. The debates of the 1980s over quality time versus quantity time have disappeared. Today, for many, it is a stretch to find any time together!

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Why Ditching Facebook Feels Like Opting Out Of Modern Life

Facebook promotes a bias towards presenting a perfect self-image

Having hundreds of friends and a constant stream of conversation happening day and night looks extremely sociable. How could anyone be lonely with hundreds of Facebook friends? In yet another academic study on Facebook from August 2013, researchers claimed that the more people…

#friends #Facebook