Weekends — Writing — Wellness

Nina Barzgaran
2 min readDec 14, 2024

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Anyone who comes back here now and again will come to realize that this is a mixture of mission and message… 🙂

I love to share my knowledge, I sometimes watch my contemporaries and feel that they suffer from similar worries as I did — or do at times.

So, I write about it. Which does not mean I ‘go through it’ myself. Necessarily. People, writers and myself — we, they — write or create a lot of writing that reflects thoughts, ideas or realizations.

A little like Woody Allen movies, actually: It’s a sublimation of thoughts, ideas and observation as well as reading…. with a few biographical aspects thrown in for ‘taste’… so it appears.

It may seem incongruous but I feel it’s part of the same thing: In these modern times, with working weeks reduced to less than the classical 40 hours of half a century ago, and considerably less than those 12–16 hour shifts people had to work in the course of the 19th century — I say, the weekends often are considered to be like a list of ‘must-haves’:

  • ‘Must’ have fun. Lots.
  • ‘Must’ have — physical encounters… Lots.
  • ‘Must’ do amazing or awesome things… Lots.

And if you would not — you might doubt yourself. Feel inferior, and hide that too. Pretend. There’s a lot of pretension around, has been as long as I can remember, which is some time now…

In reality, if you really listen to what is inside, less is more. I have found this to be true for anyone who’s still able to connect with their human side: Sorrow or joy, they have the most chance to spread, if we listen to our innermost needs. Which can be:

Less is more.

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Nina Barzgaran
Nina Barzgaran

Written by Nina Barzgaran

I am a technical writer by profession, a literary M.A. by education and a philosopher at heart…

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