Mary Mo Round

Last summer was the first time that I thought about traveling on my own. Naturally, I felt weird about it, had fears and hesitations. Being an introvert and an adventure soul at the same time, I was going back and forth. At times I was like,“I’m gonna do it, yeah, and meet people and have fun!”, and other times like “Hmm, maybe I should stay at home and save the trouble and costs…”. Finally, I was motivated by some female solo travelers I found on youtube and decided to go. If you’ve never traveled solo or you’re in your twenties and thinking about it, do it! My destination: a Greek island called Lefkada. It was a 4-hour road trip from Athens and my only companion, GoogleMaps. As it turned out, I had a blast on my own, singing out loud in the car without having to worry about anyone’s hearing, stopping wherever I wanted and laughing at myself. When I reached Lefkada, I had this great feeling of contentment and empowerment . That was just the beginning. Although Lefkada...

On May 13th,2017 I attended a TEDx conference, held in Athens. I’ve always been obsessed with watching TED talks on Youtube in English, Spanish and Greek and thus I was ecstatic about going. For those who don’t know what TED is, it’s totally worth checking out. Basically, it’s a conference with multiple talks by people from all walks of life sharing a life experience that changed and challenged them, an interesting idea or something of their expertise worth speaking about.  On the right of the stage  there’s a girl translating what was being said in sign language. The conference is an all-day event with music performances, breaks, food and workshops. All these vary in different countries. What was super interesting and unexpected was that the presenter was a deaf teacher presenting the speakers in sign language and there was always someone translating the talks in sign language live. All the talks were stimulating and delightful but there was one particular t...

Άλλη μια βάρδια ξεκινάει. Παίρνω το κασελάκι με τα λεφτά και ανοίγω το ταμείο μου. Νάτος ο κ. Γιώργος,που αφήνει το μηχανάκι του στην είσοδο και θέλει να του φέρουμε τα ψώνια στο ταμείο καθώς παραπονιέται για την ουρά, η κ. Σοφία που ρωτάει κάθε φορά αν κέρδισε δωροεπιταγή και δυσανασχετεί που δεν κέρδισε στη κλήρωση. «Μα θα ‘πρεπε να είχα κερδίσει τόσο καιρό που ψωνίζω εδώ!». Δεν περνάει πολλή ώρα και η διάθεσή μου πάει απ’το κακό στο χειρότερο. Γιατί άνθρωποι που τα ‘χουν όλα στη ζωή τους ζουν στη φούσκα της αρνητικότητας και της αχαριστίας?Γιατί ξεχνάμε όλα εκείνα που μας έχει ευλογήσει η ζωή?Η ανικανότητα αυτή να τα εκτιμήσουμε μας έχει αμαυρώσει την ψυχή και ως συνέπεια τις σχέσεις με τους συνανθρώπους μας. Πηγές Λούρου, Ιωάννινα Ενα απ'τα ομορφότερα μέρη που είχα την τύχη να επισκεφτώ   Η αλήθεια είναι πως και όλα τα καλά του κόσμου να είχαμε, να κερδίζαμε το λαχείο, να ταξιδεύαμε στο μέρος που πάντα ονειρευόμασταν κ.ο.κ. δεν θα μας έκανε πραγματικά ευτυχισμένους...

"I'll do it tomorrow.” “I have plenty of time to do it.” “I don’t feel like starting now.” Sound familiar? Procrastination is something that we’re all more or less familiar with. Can you count the times you’ve postponed something that needed to be done or just left it till the last minute? I surely cannot. It has haunted me in my childhood, in my mandatory school years and in college. It seems like a love-hate relationship, one could say. You don’t want it but you just can’t get to end it forever. Why do we procrastinate The task is repulsive.It is something we don’t enjoy doing whatsoever, like doing taxes, work on a project, going to the gym, cleaning our room/house, going to the dentist, studying and so on. We come up with excuses to avoid the unpleasant emotions this task entails and then we engage in something enjoyable like social media, games, web browsing, watching TV and anything else really. We don’t procrastinate on things we find...