Some people are lonely. And in some situations there is no help. Yet in many cases there is a solution. First check, if you are really lonely or you just feel that way, because you do not open up to anyone. One can open up only to a friend one can trust. Surely there is no such thing as a free lunch in life. To be able to make good friends, you should be a good friend first. You cannot expect someone to listen to you whine for hours and every time you are with that person. That person is like a ‘garbage bin’ then and you are filling it with your ‘emotional garbage’. To some extent that is...

The world is in a horrible state. Everyone agrees. You do not even need to buy a newspaper or watch the news on TV or on-line, for your neighbor can do a follow-up on new monstrosities of the human kind. So, what is the point of criticizing all around us, if the humanity clearly cannot fall any deeper anyway? Have you ever thought about a change in your perspective? What about developing empathy and kindness in your own heart and humbly waiting for others to follow? I dare you. Seriously, can the media really manipulate us to such an extent that we stop believing in the grain of good in all people?...

Why look for a better thing, if you are happy with the one you have got? Day 1: Low Budget Skiing at Senozeta, Bohinj Valley, Slovenia My husband and I arrived at the bottom of the Senozeta ski slope at 11 am, paying only 8 euros instead of 10 for a full day. And guess what – we were the only two skiers for about an hour. We were not surprised for most Slovene skiers tend to spend their winter holidays in foreign ski resorts, deeper into the Alps, where there is more snow and where there are numerous long ski routes – Italy, Austria, France. The snow on the Senozeta ski slope consisting of only...

Courage is not the absence of fear. Many brave people have said that. So what is the relationship between courage and fear then? Courage might actually be the other side of the same coin. The more fear you feel, the more you get tired of being afraid and finally you do something about it, which takes courage in turn. On the other hand, if you wait long enough, you get used to fear to such an extent that you get indifferent. In the state of apathy there will be neither fear nor courage. Of course there are two different kinds of situations: 1. Situations, when one needs to gather enough courage and do...