#wellbeing

The reflections community is for people who not only want to reflect on their life experience, but also want to discuss the practical steps they are taking to improve their situation, and that of the people

Deaths will outstrip the number of births by the mid 2060s, according to a major report mapping out Australia’s economic future over the next 40 years This is the first line of an article I was reading

Spend enough time on X and you will see similar posts like this ; Some other variations include how it is shameful to live with our parents at the age 27 and so on. The other day I also saw similar post

Water is life. ‎You might never really understand how True these statement is until you become extremely thirsty. ‎I was at the farm and we work and work then suddenly the water finished without me having

How come relationships are so hard? Are they hard? I don't think so. At least, I don't think they need be. However, I think they are getting harder to navigate in the current environment of selfishness,

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

I've always taken pride in being self aware, you know understand yourself and others, understanding where someone else is coming from, giving others grace, what propels people to take the action they do,

I was talking to one of the regulars at the gym this evening, who is in his late fifties. We chat occasionally and he is a small business owner with a relatively physical job, though he has a handful of

After all the work done in the basement throughout the summer, I decided it was finally time to enjoy it a little. That required more work. The shower down there was filled with junk and the floor covered

There are many different concepts of family today, and there is much talk on the subject; personally, I believe that family is whatever the heart tells you it is, beyond blood ties. My family was very

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

Background Ok, so yes maybe I'm a little OCD at times but I swear of all the 'minor infractions' of mildy frustrating things I've witnessed going on in the kitchen at home this might be the worst for quite

I was writing yesterday how what we consume influences our experience by forcing a creative imaginative process, or feeding thoughts directly so we needn't create anything at all. Much of what we choose

How are you talking to yourself? How are you expressing yourself about yourself? Because, yes, you do express yourself about yourself, and it’s very important that you pay attention to how you’re doing

Living in Nigeria is an experience that can be difficult to explain to someone who has never lived here. It is a mixture of challenges, opportunities, frustration, laughter, uncertainty, ambition, and

I am reading The Fellowship of the Ring to Smallsteps at night and just finished the chapter "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" in which at the end Gandalf is pulled by the Balrog into the chasm to his

Harness the fire. While humans didn't invent it, it could definitely be argued that harnessing fire was the most significant achievement of humanity, as it led to all kinds of capabilities that were previously

Last weekend an Australian athlete won a Hyrox event (some crazy exercise trend in gyms across the world) after she had soiled herself. This is not uncommon under extreme physical conditions, with it happening

India is a place where different eras live side by side. In a single glance, we might see a centuries old fort or temple standing right next to a gleaming, ultra-modern tech hub. Bullcart carts occasionally

A friend dropped by for a coffee last night and we spent the time talking about lots of things like normal, but concentrated a fair bit on how we are getting worse as humans, because very little of what