Hey there,
I just got back from a weekend in London, so as you might have noticed there
were no posts for the last couple of days. And allow me to say, that it is highly
recommendable. Ah, just to be away from everything for a few days: no email, no
phone, no blog, no plans, only a few close friends who can make me laugh (even
with things as simple as a pickled onion, but that’s another story).
Yes I know, we aren’t always given the means to head out and leave the country. But don’t let that stop you, there are so many places nearby where you can go to (perhaps even in the same town). Allow yourself to be surrounded by people/elements that will take your mind of from the everyday hustle. (Hush, I know, the right term would be ‘every day hassle’. Hussssh.)
Ahem, well I’d say sorry about that, but if you are someone who gets annoyed easily by my horrendous puns, then please let me escort you back to your nearest cat-loving website.
Now, back to the blog.
Sometimes people say to me: “Easier said than done, you have good friends, you know interesting people.”
My response: “Well, thank you, they are indeed a lovely bunch of miscreants.”
I do cherish every single one of them, even though I sometimes just want to hulk-smash them against the pavement. And perhaps that is the secret. With today’s fast pacing society we are all too well familiar with the terms ‘unfriend’ or ‘disposable people’. But if there is anything I learned from life, is that sometimes people are worth the effort. We can’t always know which ones until it’s too late. So give it a try, don’t give up on them too easy. Yes, some deserve to be pushed into a bottomless cesspool, but come on… That little mistake happened years ago, anybody could have mistaken your prize-goldfish for a suppository.
A side note: apart from that poor goldfish-pun, don’t discard this idea as too naïve. I do know that sometimes we are indeed better off without certain people and that you can’t be on good terms with everybody. The only favor I ask from you today is to think about the following one: do not discard people too lightly. And if all else fails, new opportunities will rise:
Yes I know, we aren’t always given the means to head out and leave the country. But don’t let that stop you, there are so many places nearby where you can go to (perhaps even in the same town). Allow yourself to be surrounded by people/elements that will take your mind of from the everyday hustle. (Hush, I know, the right term would be ‘every day hassle’. Hussssh.)
Ahem, well I’d say sorry about that, but if you are someone who gets annoyed easily by my horrendous puns, then please let me escort you back to your nearest cat-loving website.
Now, back to the blog.
Sometimes people say to me: “Easier said than done, you have good friends, you know interesting people.”
My response: “Well, thank you, they are indeed a lovely bunch of miscreants.”
I do cherish every single one of them, even though I sometimes just want to hulk-smash them against the pavement. And perhaps that is the secret. With today’s fast pacing society we are all too well familiar with the terms ‘unfriend’ or ‘disposable people’. But if there is anything I learned from life, is that sometimes people are worth the effort. We can’t always know which ones until it’s too late. So give it a try, don’t give up on them too easy. Yes, some deserve to be pushed into a bottomless cesspool, but come on… That little mistake happened years ago, anybody could have mistaken your prize-goldfish for a suppository.
A side note: apart from that poor goldfish-pun, don’t discard this idea as too naïve. I do know that sometimes we are indeed better off without certain people and that you can’t be on good terms with everybody. The only favor I ask from you today is to think about the following one: do not discard people too lightly. And if all else fails, new opportunities will rise:
“There are
no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.” (William Butler Yeats)
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