We live
We live
We love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
I’ve always loved these lyrics from Superchick’s We Live. Although the band name suggest sugar sweet pop-ness, it’s actually really good and I love this song.
I’m trying to see the world like this. See every day as a gift and to forgive and never give up. It actually helps! You’ll be surprised how much better it makes you feel to just take a step back and breathe.
A lot has happened this week, including, but not only, the Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas! (If you hadn’t figured it out already, I live in The Netherlands and Sinterklaas is a traditional dutch thing.) The whole thing is in essence the same as Christmas, santa claus (sinterklaas) comes and brings children presents.
Sinterklaas on the Leidseplein, Amsterdam.
As you can see here, Sinterklaas is accompanied by a helper. This helper is called Zwarte Piet, Black Pete. According to the Dutch critics Pete is a slave laborer and is owned by his white, religious, master (the guy on the horse). What these left wing masterminds haven’t deducted yet is that Black Pete is actually white. According to the tradition Sinterklaas gives presents to the good and kidnaps the bad. He takes these children back to his residence (in Spain) and makes them into his helpers. Eventually their skin turns black because they deliver presents through chimneys and the ashes and dirt “sticks”.
This doesn’t mean that I’m not a supporter of the left side of the political spectrum, just that the Dutch left wing political parties only seem capable of hiring idiots at the moment.
Back to me. It’s saturday night and I’m catching up on my Physics homework instead of going out. This tells me two things:
A, I have no social life
B, I’m actually being serious about school! (which is a huge improvement for me)
Except for being serious about my physics (I’ve (almost) calculated how many gamma rays you’d need to kill me, it’s not a lot, really!) I’m also serious about my diet now. I’m staying away from high sugar and fat products and cutting down more and more. My friends always taught me that a slow start makes for better dieting and I’m actually trying to do it that way. I’ve been a vegetarian for a number of years now, that and my very limited alcohol consumption helps a lot in keeping calories down. =D
I should probably end up aiming for a certain amount of calories per day, I think I already know but I won’t post it here for obvious reasons. 
Life is getting better, day by day, hour by hour.