Vir alles is daar ‘n vaste tyd, elke ding in hierdie wêreld het sy tyd. Ook verhoudings het ’n vaste tyd. ’n Tyd wanneer dit begin en ’n tyd wanneer dit verby is. Soms is die einde van ’n verhouding pynlik onverwags en ander kere verbrokkel dit langsaam en is die einde onafwendbaar. Hierdie is […]

Life is a journey and 2020 will for many reasons be ingrained in our collective memory for many years to come. One moment, it was business as usual, and the next moment, the music stopped. It was much like we were on a train speeding forward at breakneck speed, when the brakes were applied, and […]

Birds are amazing creatures. They not only come in different shapes, sizes, and colours, but did you know that each species also keeps to a specific altitude when in flight? Because of that, there can be millions of birds in the air at any given moment without them colliding. In terms of altitude, the most […]

There is a running joke amongst elderly people that, when you wake up in the morning without feeling any aches or pains, you have probably died in your sleep. This can also be said about those claiming that 2020 has not affected them at all. Those rare individuals who make such claims should perhaps check […]

Most of us associate confetti with some sort of celebration like a parade or wedding. However, Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, uses the term ‘time confetti’ to describe all the small scraps of free time she experienced in a day. Most of us can identify with this. Rather […]

Most of us do not regard ourselves as dancers. Yet, in a sense, we are all dancers on the stage of our life. There are interesting similarities between the requirements for becoming a professional dancer and dancing on the stage of our life. Both require us to be dedicated to dancing, to be able to […]

Who is the winner? The official winner of the American presidential election of 2020 has not yet been declared. The results are being contested, and a deeply divided American society still has to wait it out until all the votes have been re-counted and certified, and the winner is officially announced. All of this has […]

In 1967, two behavioural psychologists, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier, conducted the following experiment to research animal behaviour: they put dogs in an enclosure without a roof and subdivided into two parts by a low wall. The floor on the one half of the enclosure emitted light electric shocks – just enough to be unpleasant […]

‘Middle of the road’. ‘Stuck in the middle’. ‘Caught in the middle’. For most people, the word ‘middle’ does not conjure up any excitement. Middle school, middle class, middle management, mid-range, and whatever fits that description – for most people it just translates into not-there-yet. Surely the ‘middle’ is not something to aspire to. Up […]

What normally comes to mind when someone is called a freak are images of an oddball, a hippie, a drug addict, or someone displaying some displeasing social or sexual behaviour.  It is not something we want to be called. However, it is a pity that we typecast such people as freaks because we owe much […]