We all secretly dream that our marriages will last forever, that our golden anniversary will be celebrated among family members and friends, our children will look up to us, our grandchildren will put us on the pedestal and treat us as an example. Ideals are hard to follow and a lot wake up somewhere in the middle of a relationship, bored, loveless, exhausted...
It's a dream come true for every well-behaved school girl to find a bad boy who could be her guardian in the world of love, sex, and dance. What better opportunity to do this than to take part in a summer holiday and mingle with the staff? What can come of the clash of two classes and two beautiful bodies entangles in a...
For some, having a loving husband and children is a dream come true. It's the epitome of happiness and a life goal of the majority of women. For centuries they have been encouraged into it and other options (spinsterhood, convent, or being a burden to ageing parents) seemed to be less attractive. Why then, some find this fulfillment to be a nightmare and...
You can fall down in the deepest holes of your personal and professional history. You can hit rock bottom at any age, regardless of your previous victories and successes. Falling from the top hurts the most but losing any job and breaking any relationship is equally degrading and depressing. We live in a world when it's equally easy to become a millionaire and...
War is unpredictable. Within a second it can destroy everything you have worked for for the whole life, it can delete from existence everyone you loved, leaving you broken-hearted. It has no mercy and taste for happy endings. But war involves millions. It forces people to take sides, make choices, and follow fear, love, or the instinct of survival. At the same time,...
While still for some, the sole purpose of woman's life is to be a housewife, a mother, and the guardian of the home's warmth (and to this day many men dream about such a partner), it's difficult to ignore the fact that a whole lot of women have different ambitions. Being only the support for their husbands, forgetting their own talents and skills,...
Men are easily bored. If you think that being a good wife and mother to your children is enough to satisfy their needs, you might soon be disappointed with the slow downfall of your relationship. For centuries, there were women trained to attract, seduce and win the hearts of the wisest, most accomplished and most demanding representatives of the ugly sex. They were...
If you really want to know a person, look like he/she treats their superiors. It's not an art to keep up appearances among people your own class and status, but when it comes to treating your employees, nannies, and servants your true nature tends to outshine the carefully designed package of good behavior. What if a small town happened to give all the...
Aren't you tired of the hustle and bustle of big city life? Wouldn't you like to forget about your mortgage hanging over your head like a nagging parent or nit-picking boss? Wouldn't you love to erase the memories of bad relationships and your personal failures in a system someone created without your participation and will? Wouldn't you be happy to experience a different...
People crave various things. Some want to be rich and successful. Others desire fame and beauty. Some find happiness in creativity and adventure. Others cherish peace and routine. One man's meat is another man's poison. Happiness for some means misery for others. Misery for others means happiness for the few who made the right choices. What do look for in love? Security, passion,...
Two hundred years have passed and still, the biggest difference between people, a difference deeper than race, religion or nationality, is the financial status. Some have very little, others live the lives of privileges and pleasure, enjoying the services of private doctors, fashion designers, gourmet cooks, and luxury travel. We love the stories of from rags to riches, fables of how a poor...
What can await you in the French province from the times of King Louis? Should you resort to stereotypes? Is it great food, wines, escargot? Or maybe beautiful women willing to fulfill your deepest desires and erotic fantasies, paid and trained to entertain and give pleasure? Maybe it is true love lingering behind the corner, able to change your nature and right all...
Very often we seem to love our pets more than our family members. We are astonished by the amount of energy and love they give us, we are devastated at their diseases, accidents, and deaths. People cherish various bonds that they developed over the course of their lives. Some of us can be named great parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, or friends. Others one...
Now we are getting used to the fact that all Hollywood productions, especially blockbuster, megahit, superhero films include characters of all races. It's a thing from the present, trying to overshadow years of racism, discrimination, and broken biographies of those who were willing to love despite years of the politics of race. Let's put the black and white love to another level. Imagine...
You cannot disregard female power. Some men throughout the history of the world wanted to diminish women's significance, close them in the kitchen, limit their ambitions to cooking and child-bearing. Women, however, resisted, spreading their wings and proving that no area of human accomplishments is for them too difficult or unreachable. They survived. But intelligence raises fear. For their beliefs, many women were...
Love gives no conditions. It accepts us for who we are and who we want to become. It respects our greatest desires and helps us fulfill our deeply hidden potential. Many artists, writers, businessmen, and politicians wouldn't be who they are without the encouragement of their loved ones. Being burnt by many subsequent relationships, we learn that having someone who won't inhibit our...
They call it karma. If you spread enough bad energy in the world, it will hit you sooner or later with the force of the butterfly effect. Karma works more accurately than you know, it's better than the wisest of judges and it doesn't know the meaning of mercy. Sometimes your perfect life is built on others' suffering. Your career is founded on...
We quickly realized that school education gives you a limited outlook on life. It provides theoretical knowledge, which has little to do with practice. For the latter, we should spread our wings, learn something about the world, and travel. Among hundreds of traveling vlogs and National Geographic highly awarded documentaries, giving you little tips of where to go, what to eat, and how...
It seems that some professions are treated with respect higher than is given to any others. By the cover of God, some are able to commit the worst crimes, cover the biggest lies, conduct any business fraud on a big scale and crush the lives of those who will be forever silenced by their trusted assassins, being at their most vulnerable. We all...
It's nothing new that in the realist universe of everyday repetitive actions we look for parallel universes. If our minds can imagine it, the concept may as well be true. Our world can be just one of the options. Our laws might not be laws obeyed everywhere and our species may be just one among numerous intelligent beings with nature, habits, and beliefs...
The contemporary world made it possible to steal someone's ID and in this way rob someone of one's identity. But making banks, internet services or car sharing companies believe that you are someone who in reality you are not, is one thing. But making people believe that you are a princess from a distant country, with different habits, customs, language, and religion, and...
Our lives consist of obsessions. We grow up being fans of certain people for certain reasons. We idolize some for achievements we would like to accomplish or for the talents we would like to have. We dig deep into the personal lives of our idols, out of curiosity or to compare if their happiness resembles our own. Willingly we enter a one-sided relationship...
We all need to believe in love. It makes us heal from all these tragedies that hit with an impact of the end of the world, it makes us move from one place to another, it makes us flee from one broken heart to the arms of something new budding in the distance. It inspires us, makes us who we really are or...
We were raised in the cult of the omniscient, skillful, and handsome agent of the British Intelligence, who is able to fight any villain and win any beautiful lady. Literally: any. Not everybody can be equally charming as James Bond in all of his editions, but some can at least be placed in the same circumstances. They prevent the evil men of this...
Are only genes responsible for our intelligence, skills, predispositions or personality traits? Or are we, as children, born a blank page and our childhood, upbringing, and actions stimulate our growth to the extent that we can be entirely different beings than our family members and distant ancestors? Some were willing to take part in quite an engaging experiment to check whether you can...
America the land of immigrants! Over the last couple of hundreds of years, there were millions of those who wanted to fulfill their own American dream. They came on ships, on planes, willingly with high hopes for the new life or having no other choice in the impoverished homelands where potatoes were scarce. Some of them were forced to name another country their...
College life seems to be insignificant. You are tight with money, you have years to develop your professional career, and you occupy your parents' flats, garages, and dorms. What you're left with is an idea. In 2004 from a dormitory room Marck Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes launched Facebook, which changed the entire world of social network. In...
Sometimes we wish we were smarter, more charismatic, more assertive or brave. We know we are good enough to get this promotion, this man/woman, this level of success. But we are who we are and drugs, caffeine, or alcohol rarely change the status quo. We don't have the guts to make our dreams come true. If only there was a magic item which...
There were times when England had its colonies all over the world, its ports were on every continent, its fleet was storming the sees and oceans shipping goods, people, and precious metals. Of course, not everybody in this huge water enterprise could remain on the side of good. There were those who wanted to rob, steal, rape, and plunder: the evil tricksters of...
We waged various wars. Some of them started because of a woman, some began due to religious conflicts, others sprang out of individual ambition to conquer and dominate. Recently, we have witnessed the war of terror with few open conflicts but many individual cases of bomb explosions, hijacked planes, and trucks running into innocent trespassers of the wrong place and the wrong time....
We still value professions of prestige. There is nothing more rewarding for the parents to boast in front of their friends that their children are doctors, lawyers, or pilots. Uniform makes not only women's heads turn around. It opens many doors, makes business deals easier, enables an average man to be raised to the level of heroes and gods. No wonder that getting...
The world has always been constructed in the way that some have and others have not. Whether we are talking about health care, insurance, cars, houses, and food, there are some who have everything in abundance, and others dream of having just the scraps from the table. A few billionaires' income could support all of us, yet some choose to have more yachts,...
Try Google search and you will find countless cases of daughters fed up with their mothers. The latter tend to criticise everything: from clothes, through interests, friends, to boyfriends. They influence you, choose your clothes when you are a little girl, comment on your menstruation, warn you against the evil of the world: men. They have been through it all and why shouldn't...
We use about 10 percent of our brains. Some of us possibly limited their lives to some 7,5 (amoeba state: consumption, the resignation of deeper thoughts) and some upgraded to proud 12 or 13, having accomplished more than the average citizen of our planet (you know these: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, possibly Meryl Streep). You choose your education and profession according to the...
It seems to be planned by the higher forces. You meet. You fall in love. Within months, you are so deeply under each other's skin that you start to get on each other nerves. You argue. You break up. You want to forget about each other and move on. The pain of moving on reminds you how happy you were when you were...
When gianormous creatures destroy your habitat, you gather your forces together. You experiment with technology, intelligence, compatibility of your peers, and human strength. You create a weapon. Every weapon is the extension of the human body: a knife: an extension of nails and hands, a spear: of an arm, a bow, gun, missile: a combination of the former with a bigger impact and...
We all have mothers. It unites us. Distant mothers, mothers who died when we were little, overprotective mothers, mothers toxic, demanding, and neglectful. Some of them shaped us, motivated and instilled values and courage. Others destroyed our relationships, family bonds, and made us give up our friends. Some mothers were for us a difficult example to follow and a role model for whom...
We have a few books in our lives that we like to go back to once in a while. Maybe it was that book that told the best love story, an imitation of our personal one and a consolation in times of doubt. It could be that book which made us fall in love with traveling or cooking, turning the written word into...
There are three stepping stones in your professional life. One is at the beginning of your career (full of high hopes and 'I want to prove everybody wrong' drive), the second somewhere in the middle when you are finally at ease with your duties and your profession blends with your identity; and the final one, when you don't have to work anymore and...
In the beehive of personalities, predispositions, skills, and interests, we have chosen a vocation. Or maybe this vocation has chosen us. And when it is clear that even as a child you have a tendency to become a great football player, a priest or an actress, coming from a slightly less designer-oriented background may make your personal development in the world of fashion...
Looking back at your formative years, you can always see what kind of grown-up you were going to become. You tried your firsts: relationships, areas of interests, friendships which you were to cultivate or give up. Maybe already then you were bound to be a doctor, a mother of three, a hopeless womanizer, a genius, or a bread-winner for your single yuppy household....
There's one problem with lies. While you don't have to think much when telling the truth, plotting convoluted lies can keep you on your toes. You have to keep track of all loose ends not to be revealed, you have to pay attention to facts, dates, and eye-witnesses to seem believable. But what if you have to follow someone else's lies? What if...
Death at sea is sudden, unexpected, and cold. It gives time to search for the last hope of rescue but leaves people and vessels helpless when facing a force of nature. We are small among the miracles of the Earth. There were tragedies which hit headlines of newspapers and still do, despite better technology and constant development. You could die in a sinking...
The pursuit of dreams is not such an easy matter. It's great when you have the support of your family and friends but when their reaction to your 'I will get an Oscar!', 'I will have my own company!', 'I will be a singer!', is a cynical 'Yes, you will...', you might have your wings trimmed. Go to a fortune teller and if...
Let's be honest. We are always controlled by someone. Our mothers want to stick their noses into our life decisions, our fathers picture a life for us that we might not picture for us at all. Our family members all add their wishful pieces of advice and manipulate us from the early years. It's been this way and it's probably going to stay...
