Is it so difficult to find a quiet place online? I am not a frequenter of crowded places on the web: other than social, I avoid forums, community platforms, and other types of aggregative networks. I don’t have much time to keep up with them, but generally, I also don’t have much desire to post online beyond this blog.
My daughter has gotten into the habit of trying to rate the things she does, the food she tastes, the movies she watches, or the situations she experiences. She does it for fun, it’s not an obsession. It’s a pastime that we introduced when she was eating new things that she didn’t like, and I asked her to express her judgment with a grade because all in all, it wasn’t a two as she imagined: she could even give those vegetables a six.
I often read about bloggers who, to protect their mental health, tend to completely remove news from their daily information flow. They manage to stay uninformed and escape daily life by eliminating the noise of things happening in the world. In this way, they improve their mood and approach to the day, they write.
It is a time when I’m thinking a lot about my daughter’s future. She is growing up, and among the various considerations I make, there is one—clearly the least hoped for—that at some point in her life, she will grow up without me. I’m talking about his next recent life, because as far as I’m concerned, dying is the last thing I want to do. Inevitable, but final.
In 1987, I was four years old. That year, the Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger created the Avenir typeface, which was then launched the following year. It is inspired by Futura, from which it also takes its name—avenir, in French, means future, just like futura in Latin. It is a typeface that I have always liked: simple, linear, easy to read, round and full in its hardness. In the early 2000s, Akira Kobayashi expanded the type family by creating Avenir Next.
Since I decided to learn about personal finance, think more carefully about what I buy, and invest my money wisely, I started keeping track of how much money I make and spend in my bank accounts and cards.