Good Blogger, bad blogger

Hey everybody

I thought I really wanna be a good blogger so I write an entry every 6 months...

at least that keeps me occupied...

The new semester started, so I'm back at University and it starts all over again. Luckily, for the last time in Geneva. In one year I'm gone. That's an encouraging thought. I decided to work for the university this year to train some discipline and ambition, two things I genuinely lack...

That has as result that I am not at home a lot, I have not had a warm meal for two days now and I normally don't sleep that much. The sleep thing actually goes pretty well, I am still very ok. I got back to my normal state of being a heavy coffee drinker (the energy needs to come from somewhere...)

I had some special insight over the summer too.

To be happy is a choice. Basically this is a very simple approach to life. I mean, after all, there are always a good side and a bad side to everything that happens to us. I for my part was very afraid of failure before. Then I realized that my most wonderful thoughts I have had when I lived through difficult times. I wondered why that might be. And it was pretty obvious that if we fail on something or something bad happens to us, we have to go back and rethink ourselves. We have to redefine ourselves, search for a new identity because we don’t want to identify ourselves with this loss or the failure. That’s why we get to know us better in difficult times and that’s when we learn most. Now this is a wonderful thing. And that’s why I know now that happiness is choice.

The second thing is that we have always to believe that the positive thing will happen save that we have conclusive evidence that the bad thing will happen. I mean why would we want to waste our energy thinking that something bad happens? If we constantly think about the bad thing, we will eventually act towards it. So we bring it in existence, which we clearly don’t want… If we do it with the positive, then it has the same effect. Now this does not mean that we have to walk blindly into the future. If there is conclusive evidence, we have to act against the bad, but as long as there is no evidence, we should not invest our energy in something that we don’t want to happen.

Well, that’s all for now…

A loud CHEERS from me