Food, clean water, fresh air, a place to sleep without interruption. Time to spend on my own, time to spend with my partner, time to spend on the world. Sunlight during the day, stars at night-time. Stories to read, and somewhere to tell my own. The colours red, green...

Walking to work, there’s a store display that always catches my eye – a well-lit shelf filled with diminutive crystalline animals and plants. They rotate the display every couple of days, and they’re always very sparkly and attention-grabbing. I’m not interested in...

It isn’t unhappiness. It’s probably not even so bad as a recurring headache. But something is nagging at you. Something is missing. You want to live passionately, but instead you feel you are following a pattern you didn’t intend to weave. The worst part is, you’re...