Art by Rene Gruau This post has to start with this emoji😂 because I know how weird this title sounds. Further, how one of my friends will probably come to me to ask how my mind works but hear me out.... I think pain is a better teacher than pleasure, the lessons are deep and… Continue reading Romance with Pain
Author: Dcconnoisseur
This writer seeks Ikigai- a life surrounded by meaning and spurred on by purpose. To exist without labels and labelling, to be confined yet free, to amplify each dimensions of existence. Outside this curated persona, I love to travel, hope to speak at Tedx one day and seek to deploy legality as a tool of social engineering.
The Body Remembers
Painting by Hateliearts This is a piece I have wanted to write for the longest time as it largely forms the basis of some of my conversations around building memories and reaching certain decisions. I know you must have heard or read about how our body stores up trauma. I'd like to think it is our… Continue reading The Body Remembers
Making Space
Art by Judy Bowman How can we really love people if we are selective of the parts we want to know? If you think about it but not for too long, you'd realise that we all have our little corners of the world. Where we take a larger piece of life, like a buffet and… Continue reading Making Space
On grief again
Art by Laurence Bost It's been a year since I touched grief, a year before I saw his face again in my dream but what did I do instead? I ran... A year has passed since she last heard the news of his passing and had to console her mother on the phone midday from… Continue reading On grief again
SAY HAPPY DAYS!!!
Art by Nicholle kobi I was on a date when I asked the question "what is your favourite childhood memory?" I think some questions are more for us than the people we ask, maybe our ability to ask a question is proportionate to our zeal to seek out an answer and not just our repertoire… Continue reading SAY HAPPY DAYS!!!
Rotating Spotlight
Artist unknown What if each one of us are a continuous sentence in this story called life? Let's leave the main character's energy and focus on the other stars in our stories. Have you ever wondered if your story is a chapter in another person's story? I was reading a fantasy book about three sisters… Continue reading Rotating Spotlight
Rethinking Selfishness
Art by Lewinale Havette When we think we know all there is to know, it is an indication that boundaries need to be challenged... I fell out of communication with a dear friend due to some misunderstanding at what I considered a very difficult period in my life. For perspective, the hardest parts were about… Continue reading Rethinking Selfishness
Ambivalence
Art by Lisa If you take stock of your conversations, not from a judgmental lens, more of a refractive one, shining the spotlight on yourself too, you'd realise the struggle with ambivalence. You'd be quick to see that some of the attributes you admire about yourself may also be the ones you sometimes resent in… Continue reading Ambivalence
HANDLING A CRISIS
Neurotic by Antonio Ortiz What if there really was a person that specializes in fixing lives when it turns south? All you'd just have to do is timeout and they live out the difficult parts, waking you when the scene turns to the one you can handle, how cool will that be? One day you´ll… Continue reading HANDLING A CRISIS
Does Gratitude Expire?
Artist: Stephen Langa Have you found yourself praying: "if only this happened, I'd be grateful?" Well, I have. Praying for a job desperately only to start asking myself "why do I have to work again?" This made me wonder, do we stop being grateful because we stopped being grateful or can we still be grateful… Continue reading Does Gratitude Expire?
Connoisseur of Memories 