Some things are timeless, while others change with every generation. It is therefore pointless, or even dangerous, to trust elders blindly when making all our life choices. The worldview of the generations that came before us evolves, but never as fast as the world we live in. While it is true that human psychology and the laws of physics or…
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It isn’t easy to be yourself, and the workplace is the first place where this reality becomes evident. We are compelled to play a role in order to hold a position, to defend a brand image that is not necessarily our own—the company’s image. This performance is exhausting because it deprives us of the time during which our authenticity could…
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What prevents us from being happy is feeling like victims of our environment and interpreting the ups and downs of everyday life as obstacles to our well-being or our happiness. In itself, this perspective is quite reactive: we respond positively or negatively to what we experience each day. In short, our happiness is largely conditioned by what surrounds us: misadventures…
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Why do people struggle to find meaning in what they do? Could it be because they dedicate themselves to activities that mostly neglect their soul? Sport, the modern stronghold of productivism? Everything we do, from morning to night, must be filtered through the lens of productivity and performance. The few enclaves meant to provide us rest do not, in reality,…
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We are sometimes caught in a whirlwind that pushes us to systematically give priority to others and to things, until we end up forgetting ourselves. When that happens, a critical event often occurs to set things right: the physical or emotional crisis it produces forces us to reconsider our way of living. If you forget yourself, who will think of…
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When you walk in darkness, it is sometimes difficult to believe that the light shining in the distance is real, and that it might turn out to be a bonfire. Yet this is the very essence of faith: to trust despite apparent uncertainty — in other words, to keep a burning flame even when everything around us seems dull and…
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Memory alters reality as it was lived and tends to smooth out all its rough edges: what was negative fades away, leaving only a lukewarm or even pleasant recollection, while what was positive is sometimes simply forgotten. Overall, memory makes the past gentler, which partly explains why it becomes easier to forgive people as time goes by. However, this alteration…
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We deplore racism and all other forms of arbitrary hatred. Yet it is interesting to note that it is, in fact, more reassuring to be hated for what one is not than for what one truly is. You are not only your skin color, your sex, or your sexual orientation. When someone is homophobic, they are actually hating a superficial…
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People usually become jerks because they were victims of abuse when they were young and never managed to recover from it. Of course, being a victim is not an excuse: everyone can do some inner work to free themselves from their traumas. Still, it is always premature to judge someone without making at least a small effort to put yourself…
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The Disappearance Of Death From Our Daily Life Unreasonable life begins the moment death has completely disappeared from our daily life, in such a way that it becomes an alternative reality, turning into a mirage, a vague and ethereal concept. This vision is mistaken and yet, it is massively sustained by popular culture, which is at once youth-oriented, hedonistic, and…
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