Blue Hour with Stas Liutin

It takes courage to stop, without having any justification or expectation in mind. However, I am starting to think that it is in these moments of stillness, we get the most out of life, and paradoxically, when there’s so little room for boredom in our lives, it starts to feel like the most precious state there could ever be. Countless possibilities, and yet no action despite everything. For cooper...

We live in time fearmongering. Everything around us is directed to induce fear within – news, articles, films, the stories you hear from your friends about their exes. Fear has become such an ingrained emotion in our day to day life, that it would be impossible for many of us to picture a life of peace and quiet. As a result, many of us feel the need to protect ourselves from countless possibiliti...

Unlike most animals, humans live with acute awareness that time is finite. We are used to thinking that there is a beginning, middle, and end to everything. Our minds are wired to arrange life in a sequence, and really, it’s close to impossible for the majority to imagine what infinity would look and feel like. Hypothetically speaking, if we were to gain the certainty of our immortality, the immor...

Many of us underestimate the impact of our surroundings on our emotions and perceptions of the world. One misstep, and you end up attached to the wrong person, with your memory of what it meant to live a stable, calm life rapidly fading away. There are toxic people everywhere – they might be a person sitting beside you on a park bench, a colleague who always finds a way to belittle your ideas in m...

We blame ourselves, others, or the circumstances around us. And negativity becomes the default, because it’s hard to see through the veil of pain. But what if there was a meaning to all this? Have you ever thought what would become of you without all these unpleasant, yet very deep human emotions of sadness, longing, anxiety and so on. Would art, love, or passion burn as deeply without being touch...

At times, life can get very unpredictable. In moments like this, we often find ourselves faced with a lot of uncertainty, going through a series of pleasant (or unpleasant) surprises. It is easy to become attached to the things we value most in the cycle of fearing their loss. And while many of us perpetually live in this survival mode, holding on to the things we are so terrified to lose, there's...

In this constant motion, we respond very differently. Some retreat into isolation, overwhelmed by the endless pool of possibilities. Others a once in an lifetime opportunity for rapid growth. While it’s tempting to make comments about the current state of things, there’s something to be said about embracing the present and looking for ways to make the future a better place instead of dwelling on w...

Societies have long been structured around hierarchies. The concept of authority is ancient, and in many cases, necessary—we often need leaders to regulate and maintain order, as many of us would prefer to be guided rather than give orders. Yet, there comes a problem once a person starts obsessing with power. Some of us might spend our whole life trying to prove our worth to the world. Some of us...

Back when I was in my teenage years, travelling would bring me immense excitement, and upon the last day of the trip, deep sadness and frustration. Before living in London, I never really felt like my place of residence was somewhere special, somewhere I could feel the freedom of belonging. But at this present moment, everything is different. I’ve been away for most of this summer, having seen so...

A lot of us live in a program, limiting the opportunities from appearing due to being confined to an imaginary boundary that is contingent on our made-up sense of self-worth. And when we sense a life-changing experience around the corner, we often tend to push the opportunity away by assuming that this is not something we are worthy of saying yes to. It is terrifying to let go of our conditioning...

Lately, time has been flowing so slowly, which got me thinking about time. How can I be so arrogant to assume that a simple human mind can be in control of everything? How can I assume that everything has something to do with me? Why don’t we look at our present and act on it, instead of measuring how much time was wasted in the past or will likely be wasted in the future? All of these thoughts ar...

There is no bright future for you anymore. You are too old for this, too frail, too exhausted. You have seen too much in this world, so much that every time somebody tells you about their problems, you quickly disregard their argument, saying or at least thinking quietly to yourself that nobody has it worse than you. And therefore nobody will ever understand you. Because surely, you are the only p...

Once again I have found myself in this really confusing state, questioning everything. Where am I heading, what is my purpose, am I surrounding myself with right people? Why does it feel like I’m burnt out when I have only just started working after a long break? I decide to sit and think, about all things that could possibly improve my current way of life, but even thinking itself has become much...