We rarely talk about it. You're more likely to talk about gastric problems than boast about your mental breakdown, visits to the psychiatrist, inability to work or build your personal life from scratch after losing someone you love. Life is unpredictable. Major shifts and changes make you mature and develop, but they often take away the fuel of your life motivation. You become an outcast among your family members, workmates, and friends. Your work-life balance is stretched and you cannot cope, your personal life is in pieces, your behavior is irrational and you are on drugs which numb you and blur your senses. Can you find the light at the end of the tunnel after a major breakdown, is there a chance for love and new beginnings when all hope has been lost? Uplifting. Silver Linings Playbook. Enjoy.
You cannot predict your life. You can't really tell whether it will reward you with bliss and happiness or punish you with struggle and pain. Even if everything seems to go well, there are moments which can surprise you, knock you on the floor of disease, loss, a failed marriage, and disappointment. How to take everything what life has to offer with a pinch of salt, how to get back on your feet when your husband leaves you for another woman, how to have the dignity to die, and why life is a never-ending process of losses and gains. And it never stops being fun. It's only up to us how we decide to live it. Finding Your Feet.
People all over the world are quite similar, despite the difference of religion, nationality, race, and age, but there is one difference that guarantees a big lifestyle shift. Money. If you have it, you don't have to work, you hire people to fold your clothes, wash your underwear, clean your toilets, take care of your kids. If you don't have it, you will most likely fold somebody's clothes, clean somebody's toilets, babysit somebody's children and wash the dirt from someone's underwear. What if by a lucky coincidence you were to switch the lifestyles and taste a little bit of glamour? Will you be accepted in the hostile world of unwritten rules? And does money really give happiness and dignity? Madame.
For some, a woman should still spend time in the kitchen, take care of children, fulfill her husband's wishes and obey. She should be the property of the husband and any of her acts of independence should be killed in the bud. How sad. Over the last century, women rightly discovered that they are no worse than their husbands, what is more, they can be even better. They can earn their own money, have the best of both worlds, enjoy their sex lives, vote and make important decisions. Their voices matter and are heard, inspiring younger generations to make a change. But this realization wasn't a fast process, it started in the kitchen and in the bedroom. It also started in little Swiss villages, which were reached by the echoes of revolution. Important and inspiring. The Divine Order.
A small percentage of women focused on their careers, giving up families for a higher aim to produce something for humanity. They lived for the audience. They blossomed with the talent that was given to them, by hard work and killing schedule, achieving perfection and eternal fame. They also led lives full of pain, disappointing loves, and downs of not fulfilling some of the life roles that, for them, women, were an option. One of these women was Maria Callas, a legend who succeeded and also wanted to achieve life's happiness. An unforgettable voice and a life devoted to music. Maria by Callas.
In the suburbs, the Church plays a major role. It influences your political beliefs, opinions, it frowns upon your immoral conduct, making you stop drinking, smoking, and engaging in extramarital affairs and sexual pleasures. Into this balloon of moral values, can come a man who is finally able to fulfill women's deepest dreams and desires. Julia Michaels sang, They say all good boys go to heaven / But bad boys bring heaven to you. Three beautiful women full of dreams, fantasies, and cravings, and one unexpectedly bad boy. Can heaven turn into hell? The Witches of Eastwick.
If you are a fan of gardening, you most likely know that plants need sun, water, soil and the addition of love, as when you talk to them they seem to grow bigger and happier. Occssionally, your plant needs something different, it craves what animals usually crave to grow and be full. The fate of a few individuals can be changed by the growth of one special plant, which values blood over water and can in fact become a mortal threat. Little Shop of Horrors. Enjoy.
In today's world of racial and religious discrimination, growing nationalistic tendencies, and heartbreaking attacks in which die the innocent, it's difficult to deal with grief. You cannot rationalize the fact that someone for ideological reasons and hatred is willing to deprive you of what you love the most. There are people who can in the blink of an eye destroy your whole life, your work, and your purpose. They value numbers over individuals. They respect uncertain promises of religion over a human being. They play God. In the Fade. A story about a woman who lost her whole life and tried to make sense of it all it the hostile world of German multi-racial contemporary reality. The epitome of our worst fears and increasingly frequent tragedy among our friends.
Of course, there are people who enter a perfect relationship and live in this healthy paradise for years. The majority of us, however, struggle with an unexpected deterioration of health, whether it's an accident that leaves us limbless, handicapped or devoid of one sense, financial problems or life crisis. Even though you wish for an easy life, sometimes consciously you choose the life of struggle. A struggle that no other person apart from the actual participants of the fragile love affair can describe. You decide to stay despite it all. You digest visits to the doctor, days when it seems so hard that it's unbearable, you boost up patience with a handful of prescribed medicine. Mental diseases touch all of us, they lead to the destruction of the relationship, family problems, loneliness, ostracism, isolation. But for some, love is deeper than the superficial happy ending in prosperity and easiness. Some, quite consciously, chose the windy road of struggle and love. Ana, mon amour.
Do you believe in the compilation of fortunate accidents, signs, people met for some reason, planes missed, plans canceled and chances given at the most unexpected time? Can you say for sure that your fate wasn't written somewhere in the stars and that everything hasn't happened for some reason? Do you think that there was one person designed especially for you and your past failures were to push you to an actual path towards happiness? What happens if two people perfect for each other decide to leave it all to fate? Serendipity.