We often know what people’s job title or relationship status is, but do we ask them what they are interested in? Below is a list of some things I am interested in. The list naturally changes as I move through life, though some core values will stay the same.

–          Human behaviour

–          The power of community

–          Swimming in the sea

–          Writing and creative freedom

–          Animals

–          Nature

–          Love

–          Traveling and opening up to different cultures and different ways of living

–          Allowing people to mess up without cancelling them

–          Feeling the fear and doing it anyway

– The magic that comes from vulnerability and intimacy

–          Injustice, power struggles, class division, & the impact of colonialism on native people

–          Figuring out what you like outside of what your parents and society tells you you like

–          The power of language and words in influencing people (propaganda, persuasion, abuse)

–          Society’s obsession with celebrities and people in power: commodifying people and seeing them as superhuman things, then the ignorance to people living in poor conditions

–          Addiction

–          Mental health and suicide

–          Children and play: the pure joy and love of play that kids experience and what we can all learn from this

–          Dancing

–          Music

–          Stories, books, movies

–          Psychology

–          Spirituality: why are we quick to believe everything in a textbook or on the internet (created by humans) but aren’t open to the fact humans don’t know everything

–          Kindness

–          That feeling when we don’t know what to say when people open up about their struggles

–          Why binge drinking, drug use and gambling is normalized but admitting you struggle with it is stigmatized

–          Why are so many people killing themselves

What are you interested in?