What kind of relationships do you want?

Let’s start from “a truth universally acknowledged:” there are no perfect relationships. We all go through trials and tribulations in order to build, preserve and improve them.

However, when we truly aim for high-quality relations, we actually choose to move towards a high-quality life.

We’ll get the best of anything only if we first aspire to it.

Why would we settle for less?

“I can trust my experience. When an activity feels as if it is valuable or worth doing, it is worth doing.” Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

When I was about fifteen, I started wondering what I could do to keep myself busy (mind you, this was long before the Internet Age). Lo and behold, learning a new language by myself seemed like a really good choice, so I gave the French language a try. My attempt was destined to fail.

Problems have their own special way of not disappearing only because we want them to. Or because we turn a blind eye to them, deny them or blame others for them. Or because we keep complaining about their existence in our life.

If you don’t face your problems head on, how is this affecting your life?

Let’s imagine these scenarios: