Alex Barbu
Stories (29/0)
Addiction.
Addiction. A couple of months ago, on the brink of football season ending, I visited my favourite coffee shop in the morning, where I do most of my writing. The Penny on First Avenue. The Penny became one of the key places in my journey with writing, however, the point of this piece is not to sing praises to a coffee shop, but rather to talk about the connections I’ve made there. As a very inclusive and warm environment, The Penny often attracts outcasts alike- people that long for a sense of community, a sense of belonging. That wasn’t the case for me per se. What attracted me to that place was the fact that it is a very healthy working environment. I can’t do my writing within the comfortable confines of my room. My inner self requires that I go out somewhere and do it.
By Alex Barbu4 years ago in Psyche
How to Break Routines and Habits.
Many people tend to fall prey to the vicious cycle of routines. I look around at the residents of the little town in which I live, and I am shocked to find that this applies to about 90% of them. They tend to allow their lives to be ran by a routine they had fallen into a long time ago, the false satisfaction of knowing what tomorrow holds, and the day after that, and the day after that, due to the clockwork vice that rules their lives. Think of your acquaintances for a second. I'm sure many of us know people that will never leave their town, drink at the same shitty old bar every second day, watch the same TV show, work the same job, and eventually die in the same house they had moved into back when they were young. That's the harsh reality that many people wake up to everyday, the truth that they are going to deny until the day they are buried six feet beneath the soil.
By Alex Barbu4 years ago in Motivation