- do every day something new?
Things you have never done before, like smiling to the busconductor, buying immensly beautiful and expensive flowers in the lunchbreak for your office, walking home on foot, even with the groceriebag stuffed, buying oysters without a reason. Or something more daring - going into an exhibition of something you have always loathed, talking to someone you do not know.
It will give you a sense of being here and there, and alive.
-start to note down the happy things in your day, now and here?
We are all so focused on the catastrophies around us, that we miss out on the real stuff. And often the real life we lead is more optimistic than we do recognize. I am not any longer interested in knowing how many people died in a bus accident in Bangladesh. My knowing does not change anything about it. But my knowing, that I have made the day of the vendeuse in the breadshop, because I smiled to her and asked her, how she was - this makes a difference.
-give up on trying to change other people into your ideal persons?
Selfish and immature.Nobody can and should want to change someone. Look on your own shoes instead.
-start counting those smiles again?
Neverending story.
- start the famous Peach Diet, to get in shape for summer?
You can eat EVERYTHING, but peaches. Hard one, this. I for one cannot follow it. Love peaches.
I agree with you, everyone should smile more and be more alive.
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Jola, this is now almost a higher level of psychology/life coaching. I would add on my yesterday's list: tea with Jola!
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Kiki
the correct word is "immature", not unmature...
ReplyDeletebut the idea of looking into one's own shoe is right, so if you write it, why don't you do it yourself?!... tricky thing human nature indeed, always prone to avoid truth and fall back into the gold old mask
Thank you, Jorge.
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