When you take a big step in your life, such as a new career, a move to new country or just about anything that rocks the foundation of your day-to-day truths, there is an inevitable point where all this change peaks and you feel completely overwhelmed. This feeling can crop up often, once in a [...]
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June 13th, 2009 | Filed under: Changes, Life Abroad, Life Experience |
 One comment |  Print this Page Bureaucracy has personality. Like one of those odd co-workers whose mood swings fly from one end of the spectrum to the other, you have no choice but to work with them but you never know whether you’ll come out beaten or triumphant. In Israel, bureaucracy comes across as an aggressive struggle for power, where the [...] Sitting on a train gazing at the passing landscape that keeps shifting and changing, colors like a chameleon. Quiet conversations all around, friends murmuring to each other sharing bits of food and waiting. There is a sense of peace in the waiting. Knowing that there is no point in rushing because control has been relinquished [...] Have you ever had one of those streaks of luck where everything seems to be going your way and all the things you want somehow slide into the right slot without too much immediate effort on your part? Some people think that it’s just a matter of luck, others think it’s the result of hard [...] There is a lot of talk in the online world about the importance of social media and the need for companies to start making use of this resource in their overall marketing strategies, e.g. Social Mindshifts for Traditional Marketers or Study: Retailers Shift Marketing Dollars Towards Social Media or Twitter Is Better Than Facebook For [...] As recently mentioned, I strongly believe that certain necessities in life are excessively overpriced, so my question is, how do so many people own cars and homes of their very own? My theory is that it’s like accumulating work experience in order to get a great job, but in this case it’s an accumulation of [...] There is a certain bizarre kind of economic reality that has always defied my comprehension. For some reason, certain basic human needs have become priced waaaay outside of the range of sanity. Whether this is for reasons of class, i.e. ensuring that certain benefits are only available to people with money; or for reasons of [...] Daily life is plum full of contradictions, sort of like a teenager who’s gone through puberty and is trying to figure out what the hell is going on. One of the big issues I’ve often found myself struggling with is the complete deconstruction of the male/female roles without a truly supportive foundation for these (sometimes) [...] Have you ever been at one of those points in your life where everything looks dark, you have no idea where you are headed and people around you tell you that you need to have faith that everything will turn out right? Well… what the hell is that about?!?! To have faith in a moment [...] Since i’ve moved abroad, i’ve found myself experiencing a whole panoply of emotions, ranging all over and making me feel like i’m some kind of schizophrenic lost on an island of her own making. As previously mentioned, through the glory of the internet I quickly realized that I was not alone and that all the [...] |
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