📌 Watch out for our upcoming Land of DOCHIA virtual magazine - 1st online edition set to soft-launch on ISSUU this December ✨Everything starts with art and creativity!
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20 20 hindsight is the sought-after medicine of the uncertain soul, and it is the power that drives us all further. The past, however, can be both mesmerizing and entrapment.
The pride that comes with it is what informs the actions of our future, and the lessons of our mistakes help us navigate new conundrums.
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It was an October morning when I woke up and wondered how I want to spend my life. Maybe it was the gloominess of that particular morning that pushed me to such thoughts. Maybe it was simply the time to think them.
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In philosophical thought, elegance and parsimony are the two facets of simplicity. Simply put: you can experience simplicity either in the form of simple hypotheses, referred to as elegance or, in the form of methods, referred to as parsimony.
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The realization that we're truly alone in this world comes much later in life than it should. In fact, for some, it does not come at all. Some think of this as a bad thing when in fact, there is nothing bad about it. Too much reliance on parents, extended family, friends and support groups is detrimental to an individual's life on many levels. On the other hand self-sufficiency, at least to a certain extent, is extremely useful.
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Everyone remembers the day they were born. Not through standard mnemonic constructs, but its image is in our brains, nonetheless. It is artificially planted in our memory by the many stories, the photos, the videos, the family recalls shared at the holiday dinner tables.
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This year marks 30 years since my biggest lifetime journey, immigration.
This month marks 17 years since my daughter came into the world.
This week, like any other week, marks the casual pace of my life that I choose to live. This day marks the international children's day that celebrates life at its beginnings.
Ah! Where do I begin? There is no life outside of a creative life. For some it is as tiny morsel, for some, a whole ocean.
Anthropologically we look at where we came from and all we admire in the history of mankind is the creative drive that brought along development and civilization. Looking towards the future, it's still the most creative outputs that hold our breath high enthralled in pleasure, intensely stimulating and exhilarating.
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April 2022
Think about all the first experiences of youth. The simple ones. The ones that now, you don't even notice you are living. Like walking on a city street by yourself, not holding the hand of your parent, where every single silly thing around you is so great.
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The most successful changes that we can ever make are those that are true to our own soul and that belong to our own story. If life is a personal narrative, we must understand what makes us take the paths we take, what choices we have at every point on the road because, we do have choices all along, even when it seems that we do not.
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The thing about habits is that you can always build new ones. That's the beauty of it. Yet they are so hard to break. The attachments that we develop toward our own habits are some of the strongest we experience.
In our lives, habits often fill a time of waiting. Time you don't really know what to do with. They feast on such incertitude. And other times, they help you grab the day by the horns.
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Ten minutes in the bathroom.
Fifteen to get the coffee going.
An hour to get ready altogether, with emails, showers, breakfast of champions, high heels, and makeup, then all covered by colour-coordinated mask.
There is a lot to be said about the concoction of emotions that one feels when one feels grateful. Contentment, relaxation, happiness, pleasure. As much as we don't all know the mechanics of emotion and we never think of them as we experience them, what differentiates gratitude from other positive emotions is that more often than not, we can pinpoint the source of it with extreme preciseness.
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“A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world...jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..”
― Munia Khan
Not a year like another, we say. Isn't that true though about every year?
Does it matter that this one was filled with disease, loneliness, solitude and more loneliness? Does it matter that it was a crippling one? Yes it does.
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” John Green
The truth is that to maintain mental health is simple. It is as simple as maintaining physical health. It's just that there is less knowledge of how to do it. Too spread out. Too many opinions, too many possibilities, too many home remedies and do it yourself. And still, too much stigma.
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“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” Tricia Cunningham
What is work? When is the last time you've asked yourself this? When you do, the fist thing that comes to mind is "job". read more …
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"If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax. "
Christian Louboutin
This month we will look at which kind of travel triggers relaxation to a level where you can reap it's benefits long after you've returned home, at how cottage life, the home away from home, is food for a healthy mind and at how choosing a carrier that makes you happy and fills your day with tasks that you love doing adds golden years to your life by the bucket.
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"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
Boris Pasternak
Get out of your comfort zone is a motto that gets used a lot in the context of self-development and growth. It is in fact way more than that. It is life itself. This month at Dochia - take a look and let yourself be surprised! 💫
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Some of us have become online authors in search of closeness in a time of distancing. The blurred line between reality and virtual has gained definition by the sheer lack of real connection. We were so worried that the virtual would take over and impend on our realities that now you could say we live the nightmare that we so fearfully wanted to avoid.
But like all those things we don't have and wish we had, maybe this is exactly what was needed to make reality the undisputed queen again.
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“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken” Oscar Wilde
The little act of knowing yourself is a lifetime quest that is worth conquering as early in your life as possible. This May we will look at how your surroundings help your self-reflection process. Introspection solidifies our values and builds confidence…
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