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The job market is going slow. Not just here, but many places all over Europe, mainly due to the US market. In the last year, our youth unemployment rate went up to an approximate 30%. Suddenly, it grows real before...

We are taught how to sneak onto the market, as if the employers wouldn't notice us. "Most jobs never reach the ads", says Karin at the Employment Agency when I call her. "Sign up on their websites, introduce yourself at...

It's a promise I'm holding in my hands. A promise of another life. A better life. A step forwards, away from where I am now. I tremble, worrying the words I chose won't do, that my qualifications won't be good...

And when you kiss me in my neck How can you know that I'm smiling? Trust. What is it, really? Another clichéd word to help us stay naive, to help us avoid the idea of selfishness. Somewhere, we're still children,...

You left me too many times for me to give you another chance And you left me with too many scars for me to join you in another dance Yet that's exactly what this is Dancing around the truth You'll...

Do we look away from what's painful because it burdens us? Do we want to spend our short lives on something easier; something more beautiful? Maybe it lies in our nature not to trouble ourselves. Avoiding angst. Avoiding to feel....