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#388 🔸 Why you run from your own fears instead of becoming their shelter

4 Aug 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman

  Authenticity in private details, which I wrote about last time, shows us that the relationship with oneself is built in small and apparently insignificant moments. But there is a dimension of the relationship with oneself that is more difficult tha...

#387 🔸 Who you truly are shows in the choices you make when nobody is watching

3 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Recovering pieces of yourself from past relationships, which I wrote about last time, brings us back to the fundamental question of who we are in the absence of external influences. And there is a place where this question receives a concrete and o...

#386 🔸 why you feel incomplete after some relationships and how to recover what you left there

3 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Nocturnal dialogues with the self, which I wrote about last time, sometimes bring to the surface what is easier to avoid during the day: thoughts about past relationships, about people who are no longer in our lives, about what remained unresolved...

#385 🔸 Why nighttime thoughts are the most honest and what to do with what you hear there

2 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Solitude as sanctuary, which I wrote about last time, has a privileged moment in which it becomes inevitable for almost anyone: the night. When the light goes out, when the noise of the day falls silent, and when no distraction remains to function,...

#384 🔸 Why some people find themselves in solitude and others lose themselves in it

1 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

Gentleness towards oneself on days of failure, which I wrote about last time, requires being able to stay with yourself without fleeing. And this is perhaps one of the most difficult forms of presence: remaining in your own interior without filling t...

#383 🔸 What to do with yourself on the days when you are nowhere near your best version

1 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Unburdening ourselves of parental expectations, which I wrote about last time, leaves a freer space inside. But in that freer space, sometimes without the externalised critical voice to guide us, we confront our own failures directly. And precisely...

#382 🔸 At what age did you stop living for yourself and start living for them

31 Jul 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Attachment to old suffering, which I wrote about last time, often has roots deeper than our adult experiences. Much of what we carry as a burden came with us from childhood, from the families in which we grew up, from the expectations, explicit or...

#381 🔸 Why you cling to old pain even when you have the chance to let it go

30 Jul 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman

  Weirdness embraced, which I wrote about last time, requires the courage to be yourself. But there is something even deeper that sometimes blocks this freedom, something we do not usually think of as an obstacle: attachment to one's own suffering. N...

#380 🔸 Why the most interesting people you have ever met did not fit into any category

30 Jul 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Resetting internal standards, which I wrote about last time, frees us from the pressure of conforming to an ideal version constructed from outside. And once this pressure relaxes somewhat, space appears for something we have consistently repressed,...

#379 🔸 Why you never feel enough and how to stop this race that exhausts you

29 Jul 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman

  Scars carried with courage, which I wrote about last time, are part of the complete story of a person. But there is something that prevents many people from reaching this perspective, something that functions constantly in the background and produc...