4 months later...

We've made it to March, April is right around the corner, January a distant memory and the New Years resolutions just another parenthesis in our life. Usually - believe it or not; I still remember mine. No, I'm not a saint and haven't changed my ways completely. I admit I've totally forgotten to live by it now and then. Can't just break a bad habit like that...

So here's to the revival of my New Year's resolution:

Self respect

Our brains have to process a lot of information every day and it has to trash some of the less important (just think of how much doesn't mattering information you pick up during an episode of Sherlock Homes for instance). I don't need a super detective to explain the mystery of the forgotten New Years Resolutions.

You gotta keep it activated. Now to the strategy; every week I'm going to do a challenge to keep up with my goal to have more self-respect (it's also gonna challenge me to keep my blog updated... Which has been quite dead, I know)

I respect people for what they do; how they treat others, them selves and what they do with their lives. To have real deep respect means that you need to know what you respect them for, so here's my first challenge:

Week #1: For every day of this week, you have to find one thing, you have done that day, that you are proud of

To kick off, I'll give to you the "deed of the day"; as part of my fast I'm eating any kind of sweets. Today marks 3 weeks free of all that sugary stuff - don't think I've gone that long without chocolate EVER. Only 27 days to go...

Stay tuned for more!

Happiness as a destination

"You are always happy!" Are you kidding me? I'll take it as a compliment, cause I definitely try. I wish I could say I always succeeded as well!

Rainy weather, rude comment, bad hair day and that one guy doesn't text you back. There can be many reasons that it's just not your day. What's worth noticing is how often it's your surroundings that affect you. You can probably see where I'm going... About to give you "be happy"-speech. If you know me, you will know that it truly is my attitude, but whether or not you follow it, I don't care. I just know that to me, being mad is a waste of precious time.

I woke up, thinking it was going to be great day. The sun was shinning and it seemed like spring had finally arrived. That illusion crushed when I literally crashed into a fence on my way to school. A road worker didn't see me coming. He walked right into me with a concrete block. It torn a whole in my pants, that revealed the wound he gave me and sent me crashing into a fence. Not really the way you want to start of your day.  It didn't hurt too bad then, but I was choked and the guy didn't even say sorry.

I walk into class a little late, since... Well, I didn't expect to be part of a collision on my way to school. My teacher gives me one look and says nothing. Happy to have some friends that are a little more caring, when I start crying in the middle of class. Even though I always hate crying in front of people, but I couldn't help it.

A group presentation that wasn't exactly ready, a missed train and another one that was canceled didn't exactly make my day better.

Still what I wanna remember from this day is that it finally seems like the spring is coming to Denmark. It's 59 °F and the entire school is eating lunch in the first sunshine. My little brother keeps asking if it's summer now. And one more thing; we can finally play basketball outside again. You have one guess who made the winning shot? The only girl on the court.

Like a camera, it's a question about what moments you choose to capture. I choose the picture of the guys' surprised faces when I made those last points.