Joie de vivre

Just like I did with other articles or whatever, I will copy some paragraphs that best describe the way I feel (either sometimes or most of the times). This time, though, I would copy the freaking percent of 70-80. I can relate to it this much... "Before, I simply thought I was overly emotional, often susceptible to intense mood swings and that something was intrinsically wrong with me. Was I depressed? I couldn’t be. I’ve had moments when I was the happiest person in the world." "I told my mum when I was in high school, “I think I have bipolar” and she said “You only have bipolar if you think you have bipolar”. So I told myself I wasn’t bipolar, but still, I felt as though there was something very empty and sad about me." "So, in a nutshell, it’s a tumultuous and emotional rollercoaster of contradictions. The worst part is that the symptoms feed on themselves and snowball until you’re buried under an avalanche. And it sucks. Not only for me, bu

The other day I've found a nice article , written (maybe) by one of my co-nationals on a pretty famous website, in which Romanian expressions and idioms were translated into English. Needless to say, they sounded hilarious. After I did a bit of research and found plenty of such articles, I decided to write one myself, where I gathered other expressions/idioms together. For my non-Romanian-speakers readers, of course :D. (note: some of them are just slangy, and not inscribed on the official dictionaries)    1. English people constrain other people to complete a certain task. A Romanian will place his nail in the other's neck ( Îi pune unghia în gât ). Also, he will place his own nail in his own neck , meaning he will do anything in order to achieve something. Isn't that sadistic?     2. When you are Romanian, you life may be dust ( praf ). Also, you may feel dust yourself because you drank too much or you said something wrong. Your friend can be dust as well bec

Horrendous feeling of loneliness, strewn with an enormous lack of self-worth, both to which is added a horribleh headache. And the weather seems to agree. Couldn't get out of bed until approx. 17:00 today. My day looked like sleep-cry-sleep-cry-sleep-cry-sleep-write this-cry-pause-cry again. It's only cold if you're standing still.