THE STORIES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE
I believe in love. I believe that you can love one person. In a monogamous way. I think you can meet one person, fall in love and love them for the rest of your life. I’m quite inspired by romantic comedies. Like The Proposal. And I mean romantic comediesspecifically make me believe in love becauseRead more about If I can be happy in myself, then I can better help other people.[…]
I believe in finding something that you properly believe in, and care about, and want to dedicate your life to. And then, finding out how you can best serve it. I suppose that’s quite a sort of work-based answer. But I believe that gives you the most fulfilment in life. So you need to findRead more about There is something so beautiful in the fact that we make meaning[…]
I never really thought about what I believe. I don’t believe in any religion. But I what I do believe… Maybe I believe in myself? I don’t know. Makes me wonder what is there to believe in. I’m in a period now where I believe that you have to take care of the people aroundRead more about Since my mother passed away unexpectedly, I believe in spending time with people you love[…]
I believe in human beings, and in particular the advancement of knowledge. I suppose I believe that there is a perfect balance in all things – whether that’s how many calories you’re taking in, or how you’re relating to the earth – and that as knowledge improves, we come to know what the balance is.Read more about I guess if you were to give my philosophy a name it would be ‘nature’[…]
<for Dutch scroll down> I think life is pointless and we just have to make the best of it. I don’t believe there’s a god. It is too complicated a story that is scientifically completely unsound. I was raised protestant. Went to church. Did Catechism. But it’s like with Santa Claus for children. At someRead more about Sommige mensen worden heel aardig geboren, sommigen worden minder aardig geboren. Die moeten het dan nog leren.[…]
I believe that you should treat other people as you wish to be treated, basically. That’s just the way we were brought up. Even when we got into fights in school, Mum would say “would you like that done to you?” So that’s it really. I work in theatre and I like stories of hope;Read more about What’s the balance between being selfish and tolerant simultaneously?[…]
I believe in kindness; in doing good turns; altruism; in doing good deeds where possible. I believe we should be looking after our planet more; being responsible for how we act. But it’s hard and often contradictory. I often think I shouldn’t eat meat but I still do. My Mum and dad are both kindRead more about When I was sixteen I got the same tattoo as David Beckham[…]
I don’t believe anything really. I think the world probably started with the Big Bang and then whatever the scientific consensus is. In Australia, I was kind of raised Catholic and it just sounded a bit silly. My parents were a bit half-assed Catholic as well [laughing]. And they were doing it just because theirRead more about If you don’t be a dick to people, they won’t be a dick to you.[…]
Is there a God or something like that? To me it doesn’t really matter. It’s not something that sets the time of my day. I think people have a lot of free will. And we have the ability to evaluate situations and scenarios and imagine what something might be like if we make a particularRead more about For me the good life consists of very day-to-day things.[…]
This week’s participant asked to remain anonymous. Instead of taking their picture, we asked them to provide a photo they had taken that best represented their beliefs. They further requested to submit their own reflections, since they wanted to participate, but did not feel comfortable being interviewed. They gave me their reflections in a hand-writtenRead more about We humans need to belong to or connect to somewhere or someone.[…]