What We Throw Away and What We Keep

What We Throw Away and What We Keep

– ‘Throw some more clothes to make room in the closet. – I’m not in the mood / Another time. / Why? They look good and I care about them. “To make room for new ones.” That’s how my mother convinces me to do a sorting exercise, to...
The Emperor’s Clothes

The Emperor’s Clothes

The story goes that once upon a time, in a distant land, an emperor who liked clothes so much that he would have spent everything he had on his clothes. One day, two merchant thieves came to that land and found a way to trick the emperor and take large sums of money....
Resilience and the Worm

Resilience and the Worm

”One evening, as I was coming home, I saw a worm on the ground. The rain had stopped for about an hour and it had left the green space and went on the sidewalk. When I was little, together with other children, we sometimes took the worms and smashed them on the...
‘What Will People Say?’

‘What Will People Say?’

This question has always puzzled me. When I was a teenager and I went to the countryside, somewhere near Bucharest, our grandmother sometimes told me to come in a skirt, a dress, like a girl, not in pants, because people will laugh at me. When I started working, at my...
Unbearable Loneliness of a Being

Unbearable Loneliness of a Being

I recently saw on social media that a psychotherapist committed suicide. Sad, shocking, every time I find out about something like this. I remember the note left by Dalida, when she committed suicide: ‘La vie m’est insupportable’ (Life is unbearable for me). Some...