Best advice in a long time

Inner Peace

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones
are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without alcohol,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

Then You Are Probably

The Family Dog

Handle every Stressful situation like a dog.

If you can't eat it or play with it,

Pee on it and walk away

There are always good surprises

There are always good surprises lurking around the corner, the important thing is to recognise them, if they come your way. This is also a way of making your life much more colourful - really!

One good surprise is, when a person, whom who have not seen for ages all of a sudden calls, simply because you had sent this late Christmas Card and your new address. How nice to hear a voice on the phone and all of a sudden be transported into another era of your life!! This makes people glow for a whole week!
Couple of month ago I met a nice chap who was living in Scotland and he spoke of a German doctor living there - it turned out, that this lady was the same girl I was in boarding school with, some 25 years ago... The world is small indeed.

Another good surprise is often to be found when you are taking to cleaning stuff and reorganising your things - very good to do in spring anyway. Not that we have spring here, but you know what I mean... One can find left overs of letters, a single ticket for the metro, another timetable for the Thalys to Paris ( why not going to Paris??) and some lost coins in the last corner of an unused handbag, a packet of cigarettes ( perhaps better to throw them away..) and the old lighter you have received as a gift years ago and never knew were it was. Same applies to earrings, taken off after a nice evening and tucked away in your little clutch or even better the address card of a nice person you met once at a wedding. Up to you to do the follow up!

The great thing  about surprises is that they depend literally on you and you alone. If you are awake and attentive, then they can come along. If you are hunching in the daily treadmill, little chance for them to get your attention. Do things differently, go out of your way and see with open eyes what is around you. May be a smile of a person in a car giving you the opportunity to pass the street, or a talk to a stranger in the bookshop at lunchtime, the discovery of an Asian little soup kitchen near your job because you took the other street and some information relevant to your life, because once in your life you bought the other journal and not the usual one.

You get the point. Adventure depends on ourselves!