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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ABOUT THE BOOKThe Things We Get Used ToHow Ordinary Things Slowly Become Our NormalThere was probably a time when many of the things in our present life felt extraordinary. The home we now enter without thinking may once have been something we desperately wished for. The salary that now feels ordinary may once have represented independence and possibility. The person whose presence we sometimes barely notice may once have been someone we were afraid of losing. Even the ordinary mornings we move through without attention may once have been the kind of life we hoped we would someday have.Then something happens quietly. We get used to it.This book explores one of the strangest abilities of being human: our capacity to become familiar with almost anything. We become accustomed to comfort, success, responsibility, relationships, routines, disappointment, loneliness, and even pain. What once demanded our attention gradually becomes part of the background. The extraordinary becomes ordinary, the precious becomes familiar, and the familiar can eventually become invisible.The Things We Get Used To is not a book about telling us to be grateful for everything or to stop wanting more. Life changes, circumstances change, and sometimes we genuinely need something different. Instead, this book asks us to look more honestly at what happens when familiarity changes the way we see our lives. It asks what happens when yesterday's dream becomes today's expectation, when constant presence begins to feel permanent, when pain becomes normal enough to stop being questioned, and when we slowly become a person we never consciously decided to become.Across four parts, the book moves from the things we become used to in life, to the dreams we once wanted, to the people whose presence becomes familiar, and finally to the versions of ourselves we gradually learn to live with. It explores why first experiences feel different, why extraordinary things lose their emotional intensity, why we sometimes stop seeing the life already around us, why success keeps moving the meaning of enough, why people can become invisible through constant presence, and why we can become so familiar with our own lives that even we begin to feel like strangers to ourselves.At its heart, this is a book about attention. Familiarity does not necessarily mean that something has lost its value. Sometimes it simply means that we have stopped looking closely. The house may still be the house we once prayed for. The people may still be the people who once meant everything to us. The achievements may still represent years of effort. The morning may still contain the same quiet possibilities. What changed may not always be the thing itself. Sometimes what changed was the way we experienced it.But the book also recognizes the darker side of adaptation. We can get used to things that should not become normal. We can become comfortable with exhaustion, tolerate unhealthy relationships, accept constant disappointment, lower our expectations, and mistake endurance for a way of life. Being able to live with something does not automatically mean that we should continue living with it. Sometimes familiarity protects us. Sometimes it quietly limits us.Perhaps that is why the question running beneath these pages is not simply what have we become used to, but what have we stopped noticing because we became used to it?The people sitting beside us. The parents whose presence feels permanent. The love that survived its first excitement. The achievements that once seemed impossible. The salary that once felt huge. The home that once felt like a distant dream. The pain we learned to carry. The expectations we slowly abandoned. The person we became while adapting to everything around us.</ Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There are questions we ask because we want answers.And then there are questions that remain with us because, somewhere inside, we already know that the answer might change us.Why do we want what we want?Why do we fear what we fear?Why do we return to things that hurt us?Why does success sometimes leave us strangely empty?Why do we need people who may never understand us completely?Why does the mind remember what the heart wishes to forget?Why do we keep trying to control a life that has never promised to obey us?Why does losing someone hurt even when we knew, somewhere deep inside, that nothing could last forever?And perhaps the most frightening question of all: If we knew exactly how much time we had left, would we still live the way we are living now?We are rarely taught how to ask these questions.We are taught how to study.How to work.How to earn.How to succeed.How to become respectable.How to build a life that looks meaningful from the outside.But almost nobody teaches us how to understand the person living that life.We learn how to take care of our bodies, but not always how to understand our minds.We learn how to communicate, but not always how to feel understood.We learn how to achieve, but not how to recognise when achievement has become an endless hunger.We learn how to hold people, but not how to let them go.We learn how to remember, but not how to live with what we remember.We learn how to fear death, but rarely how to understand what makes life worth living.Perhaps this is why so many intelligent people remain confused about themselves.Not because they lack answers.But because they were never taught which questions mattered.This book was written from that place.Not from the certainty of someone who has understood life.But from the curiosity of someone who has realised how little any of us truly understand.These pages are not an attempt to explain humanity completely.Human beings are too complicated for that.We contradict ourselves.We want freedom and security at the same time.We want to be seen, yet we hide.We want change, yet we fear uncertainty.We want love, yet we fear dependence.We want success, yet sometimes dream of escaping the life success created.We want permanence in a world built entirely from things that disappear.Perhaps this contradiction is not a failure of being human.Perhaps it is what being human means.This book moves through some of those contradictions.Through consciousness and identity.Through fear and desire.Through approval, comparison and success.Through love, loneliness and heartbreak.Through pain, healing and the voices we carry inside ourselves.And eventually, through the truths we spend most of our lives trying not to think about-that everything changes, that everything we love is temporary, that time takes more than we notice, that some dreams must be released, and that one day there will be a final ordinary day we will not recognise as final.You may not agree with everything in these pages.You do not have to.The purpose of this book is not to give you another set of beliefs to carry.It is to make you pause long enough to examine the beliefs you already carry.Some pages may remind you of someone.Some may remind you of yourself.Some may make you uncomfortable.Some may make you feel understood.And perhaps one or two may make you close the book for a moment and simply sit quietly.If that happens, the book has already done what it came here to do.Because perhaps the greatest purpose of a book a Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. About the BookWhat if something is not impossible simply because it has never happened before?We often make decisions about our lives using evidence from the past. We look at what has been done, what has failed, what people around us believe, what society considers realistic and what our own experiences have taught us. Slowly, without realising it, we begin to confuse what has never happened with what cannot happen. A lack of precedent becomes a limitation. An unfamiliar path becomes a foolish one. Fear begins to sound like reason, and uncertainty begins to feel like proof.Not Yet: The Things We Mistake for Impossible explores the space between possibility and impossibility, between what we know and what we have never tested. It asks us to examine one of the quietest forces shaping human life: our tendency to close questions before reality has answered them.This is not a book that promises that every dream can come true. It does not suggest that effort can overcome every limitation or that persistence guarantees success. Some things are genuinely impossible. Some possibilities become unavailable with time. Some dreams should be released, and some doors should remain closed. The wisdom lies in knowing the difference.The phrase "not yet" offers something more honest than blind optimism. It does not promise success. It simply refuses to turn uncertainty into a premature conclusion. It allows us to say that we do not know yet, that the evidence does not exist yet, that the conditions are not ready yet or that perhaps someone has not tried yet.Through reflections on fear, precedent, social judgement, permission, familiarity, readiness, inherited limitations, imagination, failure, evidence, acceptance and personal transformation, this book explores why we so often limit ourselves before reality requires us to. It looks at the psychological comfort of believing that the future must resemble the past and the hidden cost of living according to possibilities defined by other people.At the heart of the book is the idea that every established possibility was once unfamiliar. Every path that now looks obvious had a beginning when nobody knew whether it would work. Every first attempt existed before there was evidence to support it. Someone had to begin before the world could point to an example.But being the first does not mean believing that everything will work. It means being willing to discover what is true. Sometimes the attempt creates evidence that a possibility exists. Sometimes it reveals a better way. Sometimes it proves that the original idea was wrong. Sometimes it teaches us when to stop. In each case, reality becomes clearer because someone was willing to meet it.The book also turns inward. Not every possibility we have abandoned should be recovered, and not every possibility should be pursued. Some belong to an earlier version of ourselves. Some were created by comparison, expectation or the desire for approval. Some need to be released so that something more meaningful can have space to grow.Eventually, the question becomes personal. Who could we still become if we stopped treating our past as a permanent verdict? What parts of ourselves remain undeveloped because they have never been given enough opportunity? What might change if we stopped waiting for certainty and began creating evidence through small, honest actions?Not Yet is ultimately a book about possibility, but it is also a book about judgement. It asks us to become more careful about the conclusions we make about ourselves, other people and the future. It reminds us that possibility is not certainty, and uncertainty is not impossibility.Some things will never happen.Some things should never happen.Some things are waiting for the right conditions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ABOUT THE BOOKThere is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from being misunderstood by the people we hoped would understand us most. We may spend years explaining our choices, defending our intentions, correcting other people's assumptions, and trying to make someone see the story behind the person they have decided we are. Sometimes we explain because we want to be loved. Sometimes because we want to be forgiven. Sometimes because we are afraid that if someone misunderstands us, they will leave. And sometimes we explain because we have forgotten that our life does not need everyone's approval in order to be real.The Need to Be Understood explores one of the quietest and most persistent desires of human beings: the desire to be seen beyond the surface and understood beyond our words. It looks at why being misunderstood can hurt so deeply, why we become exhausted from proving who we are, why certain people's opinions matter more than others, and why we sometimes spend years trying to change a version of ourselves that exists only in someone else's mind.The book moves through the many ways in which we are perceived, remembered, judged, loved, misunderstood, and explained by others. We meet the versions of ourselves that live in the memories of parents, friends, partners, colleagues, and people from chapters of our lives that have already ended. We explore what happens when someone decides who we are and refuses to see that we have changed. We examine the loneliness of being misread, the exhaustion of overexplaining, the silence that sometimes becomes the only answer, and the freedom that slowly arrives when we realize that we cannot control every story told about us.But this book is not only about wanting others to understand us. Beneath that desire lies a deeper question: do we understand ourselves?As the journey moves inward, the book explores what it means to become honest about our fears, motives, contradictions, needs, boundaries, mistakes, desires, and patterns. It asks us to distinguish self understanding from self justification, self awareness from self judgment, and self respect from the endless need for approval. It reminds us that we can take responsibility for who we have been without allowing our past to become a permanent definition of who we are.Along the way, we encounter another kind of relationship, the rare relationships in which we do not feel compelled to explain every silence, every decision, every change, or every part of ourselves. These are the people who listen without immediately judging, who allow us to change without treating our growth as betrayal, and who understand that knowing someone does not mean possessing a complete explanation of them.Some people will remember us differently. Some will misunderstand our choices. Some will carry an old version of us long after we have changed. Some will never know what we were carrying when we made certain decisions. Some will never understand why we stayed, why we left, why we became silent, or why we became someone they no longer recognize.And perhaps we can allow that.Because there comes a time when we stop standing before the world asking to be correctly interpreted. We stop trying to win every explanation. We stop defending every version of ourselves. We begin to understand that another person's inability to see our entire story does not make our story less real.We can still desire to be understood. We can still value those who listen deeply. We can still explain when explanation matters. We can still apologize when we are wrong and listen when someone tells us that we have caused pain.But we no longer need everyone to understand.The Need to Be Understood is a reflection on identity, perception, relationships, self knowledge, emotional freed Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Business Organisation and Management - A Textbook for B. Com/B.B. A/M. Com/M.B. A courses has been meticulously crafted following the NEP pattern. It offers easy-to-digest content descriptions, ensuring clarity of thought and a lucid presentation. Each concept is complemented with relevant diagrams and images, enhancing understanding and engagement. At the end of each chapter, a comprehensive summary is provided, facilitating a conclusive understanding of the material. Additionally, students will find unit-wise and topic-wise questions that cater to their convenience, ensuring thorough preparation and mastery of the subject matter. This textbook stands out as distinctly superior to others in the market, offering a holistic and engaging learning experience. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Business Organisation and Management - A Textbook for B. Com/B.B. A/M. Com/M.B. A courses has been meticulously crafted following the NEP pattern. It offers easy-to-digest content descriptions, ensuring clarity of thought and a lucid presentation. Each concept is complemented with relevant diagrams and images, enhancing understanding and engagement. At the end of each chapter, a comprehensive summary is provided, facilitating a conclusive understanding of the material. Additionally, students will find unit-wise and topic-wise questions that cater to their convenience, ensuring thorough preparation and mastery of the subject matter. This textbook stands out as distinctly superior to others in the market, offering a holistic and engaging learning experience.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - There is always more to life than what we see. Behind a smile, there may be sadness. Behind success, sacrifice. Behind confidence, years of insecurity. Behind someone's departure, a struggle we may never know. We see people, but we rarely see the stories they carry.And perhaps the same is true of us. Beneath the version of ourselves we show the world are thoughts we never speak, fears we hide, memories we carry, and dreams we quietly abandoned. We learn to say 'I am fine' when we are not, to appear confident while doubting ourselves, and to live by expectations until we can no longer tell whether the life we are living is truly ours.Much of what shapes us remains invisible. Fear disguises itself as logic. Insecurity hides behind perfectionism. Comparison convinces us that we are not enough. The desire to be accepted slowly distances us from who we truly are. Most people carry far more than they reveal, which is why we should be gentler with one another. Everyone is carrying a story we cannot see.This book is an attempt to look beneath the surface of human life. It explores the fears, expectations, comparisons, contradictions, losses, dreams, and silent struggles that shape us. It asks the questions we often avoid and examines the hidden forces that influence the way we think, feel, choose, suffer, grow, and live.Perhaps these pages will make you think. Perhaps they will make you uncomfortable. Perhaps they will remind you of something you have tried to forget, someone you once loved, or a version of yourself you left behind. And perhaps, somewhere within these words, you will find language for something you have felt but never known how to explain.This is not a book of perfect answers. It is an invitation to pause, question, and look more honestly at the life you are living. Sometimes, transformation begins not when we discover a new truth, but when we finally become brave enough to question an old one. Sometimes, we do not need to become more. We need to stop believing that we are not enough. Sometimes, we do not need a new life. We need to return to the self and the dreams we abandoned while trying to become acceptable to everyone else.Beyond what we see, there is always more. More to every person, every silence, every goodbye, every failure, every success, and every ending. And perhaps, more to ourselves than we have ever dared to believe.This book begins with a question, a silence, and a willingness to look beyond what is visible. And perhaps, somewhere along the way, you may see the world differently, forgive yourself more gently, and finally see yourself a little more clearly.Rahul Kumar Das.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ABOUT THE BOOKThere is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from being misunderstood by the people we hoped would understand us most. We may spend years explaining our choices, defending our intentions, correcting other people's assumptions, and trying to make someone see the story behind the person they have decided we are. Sometimes we explain because we want to be loved. Sometimes because we want to be forgiven. Sometimes because we are afraid that if someone misunderstands us, they will leave. And sometimes we explain because we have forgotten that our life does not need everyone's approval in order to be real.The Need to Be Understood explores one of the quietest and most persistent desires of human beings: the desire to be seen beyond the surface and understood beyond our words. It looks at why being misunderstood can hurt so deeply, why we become exhausted from proving who we are, why certain people's opinions matter more than others, and why we sometimes spend years trying to change a version of ourselves that exists only in someone else's mind.The book moves through the many ways in which we are perceived, remembered, judged, loved, misunderstood, and explained by others. We meet the versions of ourselves that live in the memories of parents, friends, partners, colleagues, and people from chapters of our lives that have already ended. We explore what happens when someone decides who we are and refuses to see that we have changed. We examine the loneliness of being misread, the exhaustion of overexplaining, the silence that sometimes becomes the only answer, and the freedom that slowly arrives when we realize that we cannot control every story told about us.But this book is not only about wanting others to understand us. Beneath that desire lies a deeper question: do we understand ourselves?As the journey moves inward, the book explores what it means to become honest about our fears, motives, contradictions, needs, boundaries, mistakes, desires, and patterns. It asks us to distinguish self understanding from self justification, self awareness from self judgment, and self respect from the endless need for approval. It reminds us that we can take responsibility for who we have been without allowing our past to become a permanent definition of who we are.Along the way, we encounter another kind of relationship, the rare relationships in which we do not feel compelled to explain every silence, every decision, every change, or every part of ourselves. These are the people who listen without immediately judging, who allow us to change without treating our growth as betrayal, and who understand that knowing someone does not mean possessing a complete explanation of them.Some people will remember us differently. Some will misunderstand our choices. Some will carry an old version of us long after we have changed. Some will never know what we were carrying when we made certain decisions. Some will never understand why we stayed, why we left, why we became silent, or why we became someone they no longer recognize.And perhaps we can allow that.Because there comes a time when we stop standing before the world asking to be correctly interpreted. We stop trying to win every explanation. We stop defending every version of ourselves. We begin to understand that another person's inability to see our entire story does not make our story less real.We can still desire to be understood. We can still value those who listen deeply. We can still explain when explanation matters. We can still apologize when we are wrong and listen when someone tells us that we have caused pain.But we no longer need everyone to understand.The Need to Be Understood is a reflection on identity, perception, relationships, self knowledge, em Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There are questions we ask because we want answers.And then there are questions that remain with us because, somewhere inside, we already know that the answer might change us.Why do we want what we want?Why do we fear what we fear?Why do we return to things that hurt us?Why does success sometimes leave us strangely empty?Why do we need people who may never understand us completely?Why does the mind remember what the heart wishes to forget?Why do we keep trying to control a life that has never promised to obey us?Why does losing someone hurt even when we knew, somewhere deep inside, that nothing could last forever?And perhaps the most frightening question of all: If we knew exactly how much time we had left, would we still live the way we are living now?We are rarely taught how to ask these questions.We are taught how to study.How to work.How to earn.How to succeed.How to become respectable.How to build a life that looks meaningful from the outside.But almost nobody teaches us how to understand the person living that life.We learn how to take care of our bodies, but not always how to understand our minds.We learn how to communicate, but not always how to feel understood.We learn how to achieve, but not how to recognise when achievement has become an endless hunger.We learn how to hold people, but not how to let them go.We learn how to remember, but not how to live with what we remember.We learn how to fear death, but rarely how to understand what makes life worth living.Perhaps this is why so many intelligent people remain confused about themselves.Not because they lack answers.But because they were never taught which questions mattered.This book was written from that place.Not from the certainty of someone who has understood life.But from the curiosity of someone who has realised how little any of us truly understand.These pages are not an attempt to explain humanity completely.Human beings are too complicated for that.We contradict ourselves.We want freedom and security at the same time.We want to be seen, yet we hide.We want change, yet we fear uncertainty.We want love, yet we fear dependence.We want success, yet sometimes dream of escaping the life success created.We want permanence in a world built entirely from things that disappear.Perhaps this contradiction is not a failure of being human.Perhaps it is what being human means.This book moves through some of those contradictions.Through consciousness and identity.Through fear and desire.Through approval, comparison and success.Through love, loneliness and heartbreak.Through pain, healing and the voices we carry inside ourselves.And eventually, through the truths we spend most of our lives trying not to think about-that everything changes, that everything we love is temporary, that time takes more than we notice, that some dreams must be released, and that one day there will be a final ordinary day we will not recognise as final.You may not agree with everything in these pages.You do not have to.The purpose of this book is not to give you another set of beliefs to carry.It is to make you pause long enough to examine the beliefs you already carry.Some pages may remind you of someone.Some may remind you of yourself.Some may make you uncomfortable.Some may make you feel understood.And perhaps one or two may make you close the book for a moment and simply sit quietly.If that happens, the book has already done what it came here to do.Because perhaps the greatest purpos Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ABOUT THE BOOKThe Things We Get Used ToHow Ordinary Things Slowly Become Our NormalThere was probably a time when many of the things in our present life felt extraordinary. The home we now enter without thinking may once have been something we desperately wished for. The salary that now feels ordinary may once have represented independence and possibility. The person whose presence we sometimes barely notice may once have been someone we were afraid of losing. Even the ordinary mornings we move through without attention may once have been the kind of life we hoped we would someday have.Then something happens quietly. We get used to it.This book explores one of the strangest abilities of being human: our capacity to become familiar with almost anything. We become accustomed to comfort, success, responsibility, relationships, routines, disappointment, loneliness, and even pain. What once demanded our attention gradually becomes part of the background. The extraordinary becomes ordinary, the precious becomes familiar, and the familiar can eventually become invisible.The Things We Get Used To is not a book about telling us to be grateful for everything or to stop wanting more. Life changes, circumstances change, and sometimes we genuinely need something different. Instead, this book asks us to look more honestly at what happens when familiarity changes the way we see our lives. It asks what happens when yesterday's dream becomes today's expectation, when constant presence begins to feel permanent, when pain becomes normal enough to stop being questioned, and when we slowly become a person we never consciously decided to become.Across four parts, the book moves from the things we become used to in life, to the dreams we once wanted, to the people whose presence becomes familiar, and finally to the versions of ourselves we gradually learn to live with. It explores why first experiences feel different, why extraordinary things lose their emotional intensity, why we sometimes stop seeing the life already around us, why success keeps moving the meaning of enough, why people can become invisible through constant presence, and why we can become so familiar with our own lives that even we begin to feel like strangers to ourselves.At its heart, this is a book about attention. Familiarity does not necessarily mean that something has lost its value. Sometimes it simply means that we have stopped looking closely. The house may still be the house we once prayed for. The people may still be the people who once meant everything to us. The achievements may still represent years of effort. The morning may still contain the same quiet possibilities. What changed may not always be the thing itself. Sometimes what changed was the way we experienced it.But the book also recognizes the darker side of adaptation. We can get used to things that should not become normal. We can become comfortable with exhaustion, tolerate unhealthy relationships, accept constant disappointment, lower our expectations, and mistake endurance for a way of life. Being able to live with something does not automatically mean that we should continue living with it. Sometimes familiarity protects us. Sometimes it quietly limits us.Perhaps that is why the question running beneath these pages is not simply what have we become used to, but what have we stopped noticing because we became used to it?The people sitting beside us. The parents whose presence feels permanent. The love that survived its first excitement. The achievements that once seemed impossible. The salary that once felt huge. The home that once felt like a distant dream. The pain we learned to carry. The expectations we slowly abandoned. The person we became while adapting to everything around us.</p Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. About the BookWhat if something is not impossible simply because it has never happened before?We often make decisions about our lives using evidence from the past. We look at what has been done, what has failed, what people around us believe, what society considers realistic and what our own experiences have taught us. Slowly, without realising it, we begin to confuse what has never happened with what cannot happen. A lack of precedent becomes a limitation. An unfamiliar path becomes a foolish one. Fear begins to sound like reason, and uncertainty begins to feel like proof.Not Yet: The Things We Mistake for Impossible explores the space between possibility and impossibility, between what we know and what we have never tested. It asks us to examine one of the quietest forces shaping human life: our tendency to close questions before reality has answered them.This is not a book that promises that every dream can come true. It does not suggest that effort can overcome every limitation or that persistence guarantees success. Some things are genuinely impossible. Some possibilities become unavailable with time. Some dreams should be released, and some doors should remain closed. The wisdom lies in knowing the difference.The phrase "not yet" offers something more honest than blind optimism. It does not promise success. It simply refuses to turn uncertainty into a premature conclusion. It allows us to say that we do not know yet, that the evidence does not exist yet, that the conditions are not ready yet or that perhaps someone has not tried yet.Through reflections on fear, precedent, social judgement, permission, familiarity, readiness, inherited limitations, imagination, failure, evidence, acceptance and personal transformation, this book explores why we so often limit ourselves before reality requires us to. It looks at the psychological comfort of believing that the future must resemble the past and the hidden cost of living according to possibilities defined by other people.At the heart of the book is the idea that every established possibility was once unfamiliar. Every path that now looks obvious had a beginning when nobody knew whether it would work. Every first attempt existed before there was evidence to support it. Someone had to begin before the world could point to an example.But being the first does not mean believing that everything will work. It means being willing to discover what is true. Sometimes the attempt creates evidence that a possibility exists. Sometimes it reveals a better way. Sometimes it proves that the original idea was wrong. Sometimes it teaches us when to stop. In each case, reality becomes clearer because someone was willing to meet it.The book also turns inward. Not every possibility we have abandoned should be recovered, and not every possibility should be pursued. Some belong to an earlier version of ourselves. Some were created by comparison, expectation or the desire for approval. Some need to be released so that something more meaningful can have space to grow.Eventually, the question becomes personal. Who could we still become if we stopped treating our past as a permanent verdict? What parts of ourselves remain undeveloped because they have never been given enough opportunity? What might change if we stopped waiting for certainty and began creating evidence through small, honest actions?Not Yet is ultimately a book about possibility, but it is also a book about judgement. It asks us to become more careful about the conclusions we make about ourselves, other people and the future. It reminds us that possibility is not certainty, and uncertainty is not impossibility.Some things will never happen.Some things should never happen.Some things are waiting for the right co Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - ABOUT THE BOOKThe Psychology of Almost explores one of the most emotionally complicated spaces of human life: the space between what we wanted and what actually became ours. It is about the dreams that nearly happened, relationships that almost survived, choices we still revisit, identities we almost became, and possibilities that remained possibilities.The word 'almost' carries a strange emotional weight because it does not describe complete loss. It describes something that came close enough to reality to make us wonder about the life that might have followed. Sometimes what hurts most is not what we lost, but what we can still imagine having had.Through reflections on desire, regret, memory, missed opportunities, unrealised potential, relationships, choices, and alternative futures, this book examines why the human mind continues to return to lives that never happened. It asks why we compare our present with imagined versions of ourselves and why certain unfinished possibilities remain emotionally alive long after the moment has passed.The Psychology of Almost is not a book about living in regret. It is an exploration of the psychological attachment we develop to possibility itself. It invites us to understand why we hold on to what could have been, what these imagined lives reveal about who we are, and how we can eventually make peace with the lives we did not live.At its heart, this is a book about acceptance, but not the easy kind. It is about looking honestly at the roads we did not take, the people we did not become, the moments we could not change, and the futures that quietly disappeared without ever becoming real.Because sometimes the hardest goodbye is not to something we had, but to something we almost had. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - ABOUT THE BOOK PHYSICALLY PRESENT BUT MENTALLY NOT is a deeply emotional reflection on what happens when someone leaves our life, but our mind continues living with them. It explores the quiet reality of carrying an absence through ordinary days, continuing our responsibilities while secretly waiting, remembering, questioning, hoping, and imagining a future that may no longer exist. The book enters the spaces we rarely speak about, the unanswered questions, the places that suddenly feel different, the fear that perhaps we are the only ones still waiting, the uncertainty of whether what we shared was truly love, and the strange pain of seeing someone still exist in the world while knowing that the person we once knew is no longer part of our life in the same way. Through reflections on love, memory, absence, prayer, hope, lost time, and the futures we once imagined, the book explores how easily we can become physically present in our lives while remaining mentally somewhere else. We may continue working, meeting people, smiling, and fulfilling responsibilities, yet a part of us can remain suspended in a past we cannot change or a future we can no longer guarantee. But this is not only a book about losing someone. It is also about what we lose within ourselves while trying to hold on to them. Sometimes, while waiting for someone to return, we slowly stop returning to ourselves. We postpone our lives, abandon parts of who we were, and allow another person's absence to become the centre around which our own existence revolves. PHYSICALLY PRESENT BUT MENTALLY NOT is ultimately a journey from absence toward presence, from waiting toward acceptance, and from losing ourselves in someone else's absence toward finding our way back to our own lives. It does not ask us to forget the people who mattered. Instead, it reminds us that we can remember without remaining trapped, love without disappearing, hope without putting our lives on hold, and carry the past without surrendering the future. Because sometimes the person we are waiting for may never return. But we can.…

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