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The Night Marta Stopped Stealing from Herself

20 Aug 2026 4 minute read 2 comments Tirria

A short story about mobile phones, sleep, and the time that changes everything. Chapter 1: The Night That Wouldn’t End Marta would get into bed tired. Really tired, with heavy eyes and her body begging for rest since ten o’clock at night. And yet,...

The Golden Root and the Fire That Does Not Burn

17 Aug 2026 9 minute read 4 comments Tirria

The Golden Root and the Fire That Does Not Burn From the ancient temples of India to today’s laboratories: the story of turmeric Chapter 1: The Stain That Never Went Away Over four thousand years ago, in a small village on the banks of a river i...

The afternoon when she had nothing to do, but guilt has.

7 Aug 2026 19 minute read 0 comments Tirria

A free afternoon At four seventeen in the afternoon she received the message she had been wanting to receive all week. — We’ll leave it for another day. Something’s come up. Sorry. She read it twice. Not because she hadn’t understood it, but because...

Dandelion: The flower that never needed permission to bloom.

3 Aug 2026 13 minute read 0 comments Tirria

The flower that never needed permission to bloom. There are flowers that seem to wait for the perfect place to grow: a well-tended garden, fertile soil, and the attention of someone to plant them, water them, and protect them. And then there are t...

Valerian: the plant that learned to sleep over time.

2 Aug 2026 13 minute read 2 comments Tirria

When rest also comes from nature Some plants attract attention for their flowers, others for their aroma, and some for the flavor they impart in an infusion. Valerian, however, often wins people over for something much more important: the sense of t...

#239 🔸 How to maintain the balance between giving and self-protection

24 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments luciman

We have just explored the power of active listening in conflict and arrived at an important conclusion: truly listening is an act of courage, not weakness. But there is a deeper tension that arises not only in conflict, but in the daily texture of an...

#226 🔸 The art of maintaining healthy boundaries in friendships and family

15 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

If patience towards others' flaws asks us to be gentler with human imperfection, there is a delicate balance we need to maintain at the same time: being gentle doesn't mean being without limits. On the contrary, healthy boundaries are precisely what...

#223 🔸 How balanced empathy protects personal energy

13 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

If jealousy showed us how much of our emotional life is governed by the fear of loss, there is another emotional trap, seemingly opposite, that especially sensitive and caring people fall into: empathy without boundaries. The kind that, instead of co...

Believe in Yourself

30 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

Do you spend much time reading/watching inspirational posts/videos? Most of us read and watch inspirational posts or videos. Watching TEDx talks becomes an entertaining habit. It takes tremendous time every week, month, and year! Lately, I rea...

Too much "Generative AI" causes "Degenerative I"

15 Mar 2024 2 minute read 4 comments Debesh Choudhury

There is so much hype about Generative AI applications. In my experience, we do not need to bother much about "Generative AI." Instead, we should worry about our core strengths, skills development, and psychological wellbeing. We must concentr...