The last goodbye for now…

Last night at mom’s was fun! I arrived at four-thirty, and we immediatly had tea. I showed her my larp pictures (all of them) and we talked about all of the stuff that had been happening, the cats moving to my brother’s and so on. I also showed her my ‘peasantdress’ as I keep calling it, and she was impressed.

Then around six, we drove back towards Gouda, to the Witch’s place! Connie is a dear friend of my mother. She now has about 20 horses (not all of which are hers), some 5-10 cats, and 7 dogs. It’s a farm, horsepension, so they have room for all that. The dogs are the only creatures that were inside last night, and they occupied the couches and chairs. I cuddled with every one of them because they’re very cuddlylike. Especially Maddy Max, a Jack Russel with a spotted belly and Shaka Zulu, the matriarch Bouvier.

Ah yes. And we ate. Pilaf…yummm. We laughed a lot. Connie is cwaayzy I tell you!
After the food we went home. We drank some more tea and talked. And then Gea called for an hour or so. By the time my mom hung up it was very late and I was quite ready for bed. But I still had to go home! It was hard going, because it is the last time I saw her for the next two months! She must have waved five times and honked the horn a few more.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky

It looks like the long-lasting promise will be fulfilled! The beerfest is going to happen!

*big yay*

So I'm making invitations like Tommy did, stealing some of her sentences...harhar. I'm really in a harhar mood.

Good. Well. Today in school wasn't much jazz. I have sat out two hours of ethics with horrible presentations of a now again Purple Sheep. After that I went to ask more people to join Mirror in my again and still beautiful peasant dress.

And then I broke my roaming profile. Darned school network. Tommy is so nice to lend me her login data so I can internet....*deep sigh*

She's such a nice girl. She says that if I screw up, she'll throw me out of the house. She's so funny!
But I bet she's not joking.

Anyhoo. I'm off to write to people about the fest. Bye now.

Grateful I recline and rethink.

Reading a book of Howard Cutler and the Dalai Lama: The Art of Happiness. I have read only sixty pages so far but I am greatly impressed by the Dalai Lama already.
I find my life and my life philosophy are very different from his. He sees people as humans. A human like he is himself. Such a simple recognition. I see the people around me as christians, cardboard boxes, irritating non-understanding surface-striking. Some patch trough. But beneath that, ofcourse, everyone is human. Realising this, I still walked the school as if I were different than all of them. As frightening as the thought is, the che’ers are all ofcourse humans. I know they have minds, and wishes, and feelings, and dreams.

On another note. The Dalai Lama claims that the meaning of life is to find true happiness, on several different levels. Not only the mere superfluous happiness. (There are more levels to become truly happy at and I won’t tell all. Just read the book. )
For example: you can save all the money in the world and buy the stuff you want but you’ll find that you can’t buy happiness. Somewhere along the lines you’ll realise your wishes are in conflict with the reality.
Continuing, if you have to work hard to acquire a house for yourself where you can be at peace, you’ll appreciate it more. Appreciation of what you have is the first step towards truly being happy.

Now I’ve always said that all the rough times I have had in the past were there for me to learn from. What if I say these rough times are meant for me to learn to realise what I do have and learn to appreciate it?
The simple joy I can find in a nice cup of coffee passes. But realising that I have a house to live in, money to buy food from, and a bed to sleep in should fill me with gratitude and happiness for a long length of days!

Does this sound like new-age babbling to you? Allright. Name five things you are glad you do not have, like ailments, disturbing factors in your life, etc.
Then tell me, how your life pleases you.

I am grateful I am very healthy and I am not sick often even though I have a cold right now.
I am grateful I have a loving mother and a father who wishes to keep in touch with me
I am grateful I have a roof over my head and a friend as a roommate, and a roommate who is my friend.
I am grateful I have friends I can really talk with.
I am grateful because I feel loved.