In my experience, if you learn to accept and love yourself, you don’t want to live up to others’ expectations any more. You will feel happy, will be content and life will give you more good and beautiful moments. Since then more and more happy and content people have entered my life, whose success and creativity have inspired me as well. However, life is still colorful and sometimes I happen to bump into rude and malicious people, but I’m neither afraid of them, nor the situation any more. Of course, I do my best to handle the situation but I don’t pay attention to their remarks because I know that I don’t need everybody’s love!/Agatha Seymour/ You are welcome at my website: agathaseymour.com
When All Seems Lost — and Even When It Doesn’t… As a writer, I read more than average. Not necessarily books that fall within my immediate interests, but rather those I can learn from, marvel at, analyze word by word, and sometimes even those that demand more effort from me than usual. That is how it is with Alice Munro. I bought my first book by her when she received the Nobel Prize. Then life happened, and the volume sat on my bookshelf—either I had no time for it, or it lingered somewhere at the bottom of my list of priorities. When I finally picked it up, I could hardly believe my eyes—or my reaction. First, I was utterly outraged; my blood pressure shot through the roof in an instant, and I almost started swearing in disbelief. I had barely skimmed the first few lines, yet that was enough to know: it was perfect. A true masterpiece. Excellence among the excellent. Every word reached the deepest layers of my soul. I was touched by its purity, its delicacy, the noblest simpli...
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