Something inspirational:

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON, The Shadow of the Wind

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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4 comments on “A Carlos Zafon quote”

  1. You certainly can't argue with that quote. In my experience we are experts at unnecessarily complicating our own lives.

    1. Yes I agree. Thank you. It's a shame we don't stand back at that moment to think about how we could handle things differently.

      I believe the reason is ego. When the ego talks, we continue to complicate matters further.

  2. Yes, life is complicated and people are suffering from internal anguish because of it. And the toll on the ego leads to more complications, especially if you buy whatever people are selling.

    The good news is that we make the wrong choices to get to the right places sometimes.

    1. Thanks Tim. Yes we learn by making the wrong choices. In fact we learn more by making the wrong choices than we do the right ones.

      Once we learn, we start making the right choices which lead us to better places and the right choices.

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