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Wat is n ontsagwekkende dag / What is a awesome day

Wat maak n ontsagwekkende dag? Dis nie die bollie werk of die rye waarin mens moes staan by die winkel. Nee. Dis daai oomblik wanner jou hondjie verby jou hardloop met n slipper wat sy gesteel het. Wanner jy daai glimlag kry en als los om agter haar aan te hardloop. Onskuldig maar stout. Wanner jy net die oomblik in jou kop het en van al die ander goed vergeet.

Die dae wanner jy n prentjie of boodskap sien en dit aktiveer duisende emosies en gedagtes. As jy op gelig kan word deur die klein goedjies. Om met iemand te praat oor wat jy doen en eenvoudig net n konneksie te maak.

As jy iets reg kry wat jy nie gedink het jy kan doen nie. Dis n ongelooflike gevoel.

Sulke dae is ontsagwekkend en iets om oor te skryf.

English Translation:

What makes an awesome day? It’s not the bore of work or the rows in which one had to stand at the store. No. It’s that moment when your puppy runs past you with a slipper she stole. When you get that smile and leave everything to run after her. Innocent but naughty. When you just have that moment in your head and forget about everything else.

The days when you see a picture or message and it activates thousands of emotions and thoughts. If you can be lifted by the little things. Talking to someone about what you do and just making a connection.

If you get something right that you didn’t think you could do. It’s an incredible feeling.

Such days are awesome and something to write about.

One small thing at a time

With all the things going on in the world we can get negative and give up easy. I think we should take it day by day and attempt to make every moment matter. Since I started using my time productively, I’m feeling more free and well not sad.

One small thing at a time. I’m attacking big tasks and breaking them up in parts, at the end of a day, completing those parts does put a smile on my face. The small things makes the biggest changes in the world. Think of it this way, the world is made up of small processes and it’s those processes that makes everything.

If you don’t know what stoicism is, I suggest reading up on it. There are enormous amounts of information available. As always, here are some stoic quotes:

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.”

Marcus Aurelius

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

Marcus Aurelius

“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”

Seneca

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”

Epictetus

“Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.”

Epictetus

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl

“Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity.”

Robert Greene

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

Marcus Aurelius

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

Epictetus

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”

Voltaire

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I leave you with that, you are probably tired of reading. I hope this makes you think about a few things and brightens your day a little.

Odd numbered days

Today I’m describing some thoughts that had been prickling away at me the past month or so. I’m expressing it in the form of a few quotes.

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Tennyson

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better.

Camus

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Victor Hugo

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Also seeing what’s going on with SpaceX and our current technology, I found this quote at the right time.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Dan Quayle

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Sigmund Freud

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

You may not see the pattern, that’s OK. I’ll leave you with a few more.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

Sigmund Freud

I hope these quotes gets you thinking.

Thanks for reading.