A Story to Tell - PeriXcope

February 19, 2023February 19, 2023

Let’s reevaluate my 5 year plan reviewed within 3 years. I want a different way of living!

I am traveling to the USA again, and I definitely need to bring some personal stuff with me. Just like the first time I will be in de USA for a longer period of time. The stuff I need to bring are my notebooks, because in my spare time I want to write and keep thinking, brainstorming in my head. My brain needs to go through them once in a while and reevaluate of the thoughts I already evaluated. Let us put our thoughts in a table.

January 2, 2023July 26, 2024

Happy New Year! Welcome 2023. Are we having a new year new me kind of resolution?

Lets start by wishing you a fulfilled and prosperous New Year. It is rather cliche- every year the same wishes and the making of new resolutions going into the new year. I would state that I am very proud of you, that means that I am also proud of myself. We made it through 2022. Be proud! Take the knowledge and wisdom to 2023. We are going to make it through too, even if it is too early to state that. Let God guide you in this journey.

December 26, 2021December 26, 2021

A Christmas Evening Scribble

How I reread my diaries (some 1 on 1 wisdom nugget)

It’s Christmas, first day of Christmas in Suriname. The neighbors are celebrating and it bothers me slightly. I have my music on, and am cleaning up the second room a bit.

A few days ago I was looking for something in my book container. It is impossible to put the books and diaries in unsorted, so they lay on the floor for a few days.

So as I take the time tonight to re-sort the books and diaries, I’m flipping through my old diaries and reading a few pages.

Made myself a tea and eat cake from the night before Christmas party.

When I read, I encounter myself again and relive the moments.

Thoughts that remind me of all the goals I so desperately want to achieve, and also times when I’m at a loss with myself.

As always it happens that I get even more paper (than is already in the container), also my laptop and then I write. I also promised myself to publish a post every Sunday for Perixcope.

Writing & Resorting Diaries on Christmas Night

November 14, 2021December 13, 2021

Part 3: Love is the final question-continue guest writer answering

My third and final question that needs to be answered is about the subject love. In my previous blog I told you about a missed opportunity to be published as a guest writer and that I received some questions from the friend to answer. The second question was a heavy one and I let you in something very personal of my childhood. So, with the third and final question, let’s immediately dive into it!

The third question is ‘What do you want people to know when they are thinking about love, art or intelligence?’

November 7, 2021November 5, 2021

Part 2: Guest writer answering ‘What advice to give my daughter?’

In my previous blog I told you about a missed opportunity to be published as a guest writer and that I received some questions from the friend to answer. Let’s immediately dive into it! The second question is ‘Can I give advise to my daughter if I would have one?’

This is a closed question. I can answer it with ‘Yes’ and be done with it. But I guess that is not what you want. If that is the answer I have nothing more to add. Let me rephrase that question in: What advise would I give my daughter if I had one?

October 31, 2021November 5, 2021

Part 1: A story of a guest writer not being published because of her insecurity

Due to my own insecurity I missed an opportunity to be published as a guest writer. Around 2019 a friend I know asked me to write a guest post on a few topics concerning the female perspectives. I shared a lot of my personal experiences with men up close on Facebook. My insecurity let me postponed her request many many times. Finally on March, 13th 2020, I wrote the guest post. Till last year I haven’t seen my post on her blog and as of last night her blog is not active ‘This site can’t be reached’. I missed on a good opportunity to be published as a guest writer.

To be honest, I haven’t texted her about her blog, yet. It is also two years that the story was written. I follow her and she is pretty busy with her personal & professional life. And since I am starting to be more consistent I could just write the story on my own blog. I read the story again and I definitely should rewrite it, which I will do. Don’t worry – I will use the written story – but I will put it with more flow and coherence.

October 17, 2021October 31, 2021

A playlist for every story to tell

Why haven’t I written in so long? The short answer is that I have had so much self awareness, that at a certain point I was to content with myself and it was not necessary to share anymore, at least for me. I thought that I have no specific story to tell.

Nobody has not nothing to say. It’s almost impossible; even the person with a standard life pattern has something to tell, even though it is a story of getting up, going to work, getting back home – sleep and repeat. One day something might change.

April 13, 2021October 31, 2021

How should dating 101 be, like in a movie?

My perspective on dating is from movies. Movies has romanticize love and dating. ‘You are at a party and never recognized this young man, who saw you before you even notice him. There were three moments in life where you meet. One day you bumped into him and noticed his eyes. ‘Sorry’. ‘It’s ok’ he says. Than you start wondering and looked back at him- ‘Have we met?’ ‘I think so,’ he says, ‘maybe you will not recognize me, but I have seen you at three parties’. ‘You mean the New Years Eve parties?’ ‘Yes.’ As you are you are curious and want to know more, of why you never talked. What happend in the movie is that this story leads to a very cute, and super awesome story with a much more complicated twist, but both seem to figure it out in the end.

January 25, 2021

Continue the process of realization 2.0: Dating & Relationship

The realization on dating & relationship I have the past month haven’t changed. Well, maybe a little bit, but not drastically. What haven’t change is the way I viewed my dating & relationship. My relationship has mostly been intimate and sexual. In 2019 I experienced a more personal & romantic relation with another person. Currently I am living in the United States of America for 6 months. The prior goal for me staying in this ‘land of opportunity’ is because of a fellowship. You already kind of know me; a people person that needs connection. In addition to the fellows who also participate in this fellowship, I want to get to know new people, in this COVID time. What is the best time? What shall my approach be?