Reasons to be blissfully happy
Reasons to be blissfully happy about how life has treated me up until now:
- I am alive and kicking. My health condition is in no way - except for my horrid hand problem, but that in itself is not even worth mentioning- alarming or problematic, which I realise could change very rapidly
- I feel right about what I am doing at this point in my life and so far the decisions I made haven't backfired on me (so far...!) This goes for studying as well as for every-day life
- I have a bio rythm a lot of people could envy. I can get the most out of my day thanks to my unusal capacity to survive on 6 hours of sleep. I only lose one quarter of my day in slumber, isn't that great?! I have got three quarters left to embrace life and enjoy it to the fullest.
- The more I am learning about literature and the more I am acutally reading, the more I am convinced that books and essays have richness beyond the power of money and wealth. I thoroughly enjoy reading and admiring other people's wit and talent and feel proud of the whole race of mankind when I do!
- I have a great number of people that care about me. This wasn't always obvious to me but I realised that the absence from my usual environment does affect at least some people and I have to admit that this is at times flattering...(ah! Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas...!) It also shows that man needs other people around him to confirm his exsitence, to mirror his acts and to exchange bits and pieces of his personality. And I am aware that I am building new friendships that might even have the potential to become life-lasting ones.
- I deeply enjoyed witnissing Toronto wake up this morning. It's one of those small things only a few people seem to understand. Getting up early, light has not yet reached your part of the world, opening a window, and listening, smelling and feeling how every aspect of the city or village you're in comes to life again, as by wonder, every second counts, every minute alters the view you have, alters the sounds, even alters the smells. It's one of those moments that just make you aware that we are but dots in the spectrum of the universe.
- I am in Toronto and I am able to enjoy what this great city has to offer. I can walk past Starbucks and smell the coffee and muffins, I can watch the squirrel population, with which I have agreed on a truce in battle, I can cross College Street first to the North, then to the West, or the other way around, it doesn't really matter, life just gives me the opportunity to choose, I can go to Dominion 24/7 and decide whether to have Beef Beyond Belief or Pork Chops, I can go to Hart House to have lunch or to read, I can meet all the new people this exchange adventure has thrown in my way (thank you very much) and I can come 'home' and check my e-mail and realise people back home haven't forgotten me. Not bad, ey?!
- My life is as organised and as ordered as I would have liked it to be. A perfect balance of obligations and decisions, just the way I like it.
- My personality is impregnated with optimism and rationality, which in my opinion are good qualities most of the time. I am absolutely aware that those two characteristics are a rare combination and I have noticed that some people could do with some more of one or both of them. Nonetheless I have to admit that there are limits to everything (and I sometimes tend to cross the limits of rationality...)
- I am particulary proud of you for finishing this ridiculously selfish and uninteresting post. Go on and congratulate yourself, be proud of it too! I might as well hand out a prize for those of you who are brave enough to send me an email and admit that they read it through!
- I am alive and kicking. My health condition is in no way - except for my horrid hand problem, but that in itself is not even worth mentioning- alarming or problematic, which I realise could change very rapidly
- I feel right about what I am doing at this point in my life and so far the decisions I made haven't backfired on me (so far...!) This goes for studying as well as for every-day life
- I have a bio rythm a lot of people could envy. I can get the most out of my day thanks to my unusal capacity to survive on 6 hours of sleep. I only lose one quarter of my day in slumber, isn't that great?! I have got three quarters left to embrace life and enjoy it to the fullest.
- The more I am learning about literature and the more I am acutally reading, the more I am convinced that books and essays have richness beyond the power of money and wealth. I thoroughly enjoy reading and admiring other people's wit and talent and feel proud of the whole race of mankind when I do!
- I have a great number of people that care about me. This wasn't always obvious to me but I realised that the absence from my usual environment does affect at least some people and I have to admit that this is at times flattering...(ah! Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas...!) It also shows that man needs other people around him to confirm his exsitence, to mirror his acts and to exchange bits and pieces of his personality. And I am aware that I am building new friendships that might even have the potential to become life-lasting ones.
- I deeply enjoyed witnissing Toronto wake up this morning. It's one of those small things only a few people seem to understand. Getting up early, light has not yet reached your part of the world, opening a window, and listening, smelling and feeling how every aspect of the city or village you're in comes to life again, as by wonder, every second counts, every minute alters the view you have, alters the sounds, even alters the smells. It's one of those moments that just make you aware that we are but dots in the spectrum of the universe.
- I am in Toronto and I am able to enjoy what this great city has to offer. I can walk past Starbucks and smell the coffee and muffins, I can watch the squirrel population, with which I have agreed on a truce in battle, I can cross College Street first to the North, then to the West, or the other way around, it doesn't really matter, life just gives me the opportunity to choose, I can go to Dominion 24/7 and decide whether to have Beef Beyond Belief or Pork Chops, I can go to Hart House to have lunch or to read, I can meet all the new people this exchange adventure has thrown in my way (thank you very much) and I can come 'home' and check my e-mail and realise people back home haven't forgotten me. Not bad, ey?!
- My life is as organised and as ordered as I would have liked it to be. A perfect balance of obligations and decisions, just the way I like it.
- My personality is impregnated with optimism and rationality, which in my opinion are good qualities most of the time. I am absolutely aware that those two characteristics are a rare combination and I have noticed that some people could do with some more of one or both of them. Nonetheless I have to admit that there are limits to everything (and I sometimes tend to cross the limits of rationality...)
- I am particulary proud of you for finishing this ridiculously selfish and uninteresting post. Go on and congratulate yourself, be proud of it too! I might as well hand out a prize for those of you who are brave enough to send me an email and admit that they read it through!
posted by Anouk | 1:27 AM
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how is life different after your Canadian Adventure?
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