What I have learnt about life....

I confess: I am passionate about learning. I don't mean stubbornly learning Latin vocabulary, but discovering truths, principles and interesting facts that make life richer and stronger.

In the last few weeks I have learnt...

  • Conventional tampons contain pesticides, fungicides, dioxin, perfume (!), chlorine... how could I live with that!
  • Pasta is cooked with salt.... I apologise to all my friends who have had to eat my vermicelli for years.
  • Dictating messages into your mobile phone instead of laboriously typing them is very easy - it only took me 20 seconds to understand it... why didn't I ask earlier....
  • At weddings, it is possible for the partners to say „Yes, I do!“ at the same time. It gets funny when the groom says „Yes“ and the French bride says „Oui“.
  • People who make a note of what they want to ask God for usually actually pray more than people who pray „at random“.
  • In everyday Farsi, „thank you“ means „merci“.
  • Fruit flies can be efficiently vacuumed away with a hoover.
  • It helps victims of trauma and terrorist attacks dramatically if they are supported in putting the events in chronological order.
  • Today, the average German eats 35 kilos of sugar per year (rarely pure, mostly hidden in drinks, sauces and convenience foods). The recommended amount is 50 g per day (18 kilos per year)
  • 31 migrants arriving in a French town with 45,000 inhabitants make it into the headline of the day.
  • It's called „la baguette“, not „le“
  • ...and much more.

In addition to the things that you „just learn along the way“, there are also lessons that life teaches you - sometimes painfully. Or through experience. In the wonderful, inspiring book „Happiness Project. How I spent a year looking after my friends, clearing out my wardrobe, reading philosophers and generally enjoying life more. „, Gretchen Rubin lists, among other things, what she has learnt since she grew up (in English on p. 31 of the Reading sample)

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  • Not everything that is fun for others has to be fun for you.
  • Take a jacket with you (if it might get cold)
  • Small steps every day will take you further.

I was also inspired by the list of 15 things, that Pastor Kris Valloton learnt from his mentor and friend Bill Johnson.

In short: I have my own, still very incomplete list of sentences and life wisdoms that have strengthened and shaped my life in recent years and decades. Some of them are certainly worldly wisdoms that I have actually grasped in depth at some point, others are sentences that I have developed for myself personally.

My life-giving sentences 2014-03-16 16.37.40

  • It can be what is. I shape what becomes.
  • If the doors are closed, you can climb through the window.
  • Sugar and wheat are worse for the body than natural fats.
  • „Is it good, is it bad, who wants to say!“ (Don't be so hasty with your judgement, some things are different in the long term than they are in the short term).
  • What the other person does, he does for himself, not against me.
  • Sin is nothing other than a wrong (for oneself and others destructive) strategy to fulfil a justified need (e.g. recognition and love).
  • „God creates peace within your borders“ - you can only feel peace within your own borders. If I want to be somewhere else than where I am right now, I become dissatisfied.
  • There is a need behind every action.
  • I can and may leave other people's feelings with them. And at the same time consider whether I want to fulfil their (unspoken) requests.
  • Work in the morning as an artist who creates new things, in the afternoon as a manager.
  • If God does not answer prayers, it does not mean that he does not see me. He always looks at me with love. Only sometimes he says no.
  • „Every thing has its place - every thing has a place“ - takes the pressure off life.
  • „1 in, 2 out“ keeps things in check.
  • 1000 small steps get me further than one big one.
  • Only surround yourself with things that you find beautiful or that you actually use.
  • It's okay and good to say to yourself: „You did a good job!“

In my Quadro „Joie de vivre. Discover the fullness of life“ I have explained some of the sentences and principles in more detail and invite you to try them out.

I would be interested to know what you think about the sentences. Which ones appeal to you? Which ones provoke contradiction? What are your own sentences and principles that you have discovered to be life-giving? I look forward to your feedback.

 

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