12-12-'12 and other stuff

Hello everybody!

How are you doing today? And today is 12-12-’12! Which everyone with some kind of social media already knew… Everyone seems to think 12-12-’12 is the most important day of everyone’s life. Okay I have to admit, it is the last time a three numbered date appears in this century, but it’s ‘slightly’ overreacted… It’s not like this day means so much more than other days. But there is an exception though! For some people such three numbered dates are a day on which they dare to undertake ‘action’. Of course there is February 14^th, Valentine’s Day, but that has been made into a silly anniversary, so it doesn't work anymore.

I personally think these dates are not so important. It doesn’t matter whether things happen December 12^th, December 15^th or August 3^rd. If there is something that has to happen, it probably will. And such a thing isn’t coincidence, but destiny. Everything happens for a reason.

Still I want to give you a quick update on what’s happening in my life at the moment. I was very tired this morning, and yesterday morning, even though I slept pretty early. Nevertheless, I’m getting in a sort of better mood the past couple of days. Just certain people who are making me happy. But sometimes confused. But mostly happy.

I also have something else to tell. Namely that although this blog is mostly about me, it is not that it is supposed to be bothering everyone like I’m some sort of egoistic person. It is supposed to tell you my experiences in life and next to that to help people in any kind of problematic, or sometimes just happy, situation.

Life is for living.

Don’t be afraid to make some mistakes.

New features

By the way!
I have added some gadgets to the page!

• At the top I added a translator! If you are not that good in reading English texts, you will be able to translate the whole blog in nearly any language.
• On the left-bottom corner is an option to follow my blog by e-mail! That way you won't need to use your internet browser every time to find out whether I posted something, but you will get an e-mail as soon as I did! Of course it is an anonymous thing!
• And last, in the right-bottom corner you can see the number of page views. Probably not the most interesting thing you've ever seen, but at least you will be able to see it from now on!

Hope you like them!

See you later!

Bored and uninspirated.

Hi!

I'm quite uninspritional today. I don't feel like doing anything and my thoughts are just wandering off. So I'm just going to write down a list of random facts for you today.

1.     I have a friend who is highly addicted to baseball. Me myself only understand the terms home run and strike out, change sides (thank you Wii Sports), but he knows nearly anything about it! So when he talks to me about baseball I need to ask what he is talking about every time. By the way, if you're interested in baseball too, he has a blog with baseball as topic! Just click here to read it!

2.     I have a friend who is highly addicted to pizza. Or actually, it is the same friend. If you ask him a question, but he doesn't know the real answer, the answer automatically becomes pizza.

3.     I play the guitar. Right now for I guess for nine months. I get lessons approximately once a week from another friend of mine. And she is like really good! I would really want to play that good.

4.     I play volleyball. You probably all ready knew so, but it wasn't a random fact before. I play for eight years already. And next to that, I have been a volleyball referee for the past one and a half year. If I can I would like to become a higher ranked referee in the future, because I really enjoy to do it.

5.     Last one for tonight. And the last one is always the most difficult. Although I already mentioned it before: I love Coldplay. I have most of their CD’s and love every song! Except one… I hate the song Princess of China. Probably due to the fact that I don’t like Rihanna’s music. This song is really much ‘Rihanna style’.
To name some of my favorite songs of Coldplay: Yellow, Violet hill, the Scientist, Fix You and Life in Technicolor ii. If you don’t know them, give them a try! I will recommend some more later on. I chose these as they are very inspirational according to me, and Life in Technicolor ii is a very cheerful song to make you happy.

That’s it for now!

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
Of all the things you do
yeah, they were all yellow

Bye!

What's love?

Hi everyone!

Took me nearly a week to write something again! Anyways, a random fact… I don’t really know one, which is sort of a random fact. Well, okay, not really.

Last week, the whole of The Netherlands was shocked. Some teenagers just kicked an assistant referee to death. It was terrible news. I’m really wondering about why anyone would do such an idiotic thing. I am a volleyball referee myself, luckily not afraid to get killed though, but I can imagine that some referees are actually too frightened to come up the field and to do their job. It’s just… Awful. I hope everyone will be able to forget this incident and that the boys who did this will get punished badly. And hereby, I also want to give my full compassion.

But okay. That’s not really what I wanted to talk about right now. I wanted to talk about what love is according to me, and what it means to say “I love you”.

If you ask me, love is a much bigger way of liking. Liking is really easy, because something just has to be 'good'. But loving is way harder. To love, you need something really special. Or someone of course. That is what makes true love so special, it can’t simply work. You shouldn’t say: “There is only love when it works”, because that isn’t true. Love should be there, because love is something special.

And by saying “I love you”, you should mean: “You are so special to me and I couldn’t live without you”. And the phrase “I love you” mayn’t be misused. So think about saying “I love you” before you actually say it. It is too precious to be misunderstood.

Okay, just wanted to tell you that.

Love is special. Keep it that way.

Byebye!

Ps. if “you” are reading this, I just want you to know that I love you!

I'm happy!

Helloooo everyone!

Yes that's right, I'm quite happy! But I have to start with my random fact of course.

It snowed! And that didn’t make me happy. From my room I had a beautiful view over the rooftops completely covered with snow, but apart from the views, I hate snow. I had to cycle for fifteen minutes with the wind and snow in my face. The worst part is that all the snow comes straight into your eyes, and it hurts so badly! The snow felt like hail and when you get back inside, you’re all wet from the molten snow.

Let’s come to the point. I’m happy! Not like superduperenormously happy, but just happy. And there can be multiple reasons for it. The first is that yesterday I celebrated Sinterklaas, and for the ones that have no idea about what it is: Sinterklaas is an old man that lives in Spain, comes to The Netherlands every year in November and the gives all children presents on his birthday, the 5^th of December, but no one knows his age. Not even Sinterklaas himself! When you get older you usually celebrate Sinterklaas by giving friends and/or family presents, sometimes together with a poem or surprise (an artwork that matches the person you make it for).

And I got two CD’s of Coldplay! Coldplay is my all-time favorite band (today’s second random fact!) so I am overly excited! Right now I have four CD’s: Parachutes, Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends, Mylo Xyloto and live 2003! So that made me very happy!

Second reason, and most likely the one that is the actual reason, is that it is going to be alright. I’m not going to say more about it right now, but I will probably as it makes me quite happy at the moment and will make me even more happylier.

So okay, that’s about it for today. You will hear more from me soon!

Always have hope. If you don’t have hope, everything will be worthless.

Talk to you later!

Here I am again!

Hello!

Last weekend I was on a family weekend, so I was stuck with them for over two days. Well okay, not really stuck, but my family differs somehow from most families. Anyways, I have a niece, only a few months old. And literally every time I came even a little bit close to her, she started crying. Quite an awkward moment to be honest! Luckily not all babies do so. And I really like kids, so when I get older I would love to get children myself. Okay, that’s the random fact of this time.

At the moment I don’t really know what I exactly feel. The first moment I’m all happy and stuff, but the next moment I have no clue. So what happened since my last post:

We talked via chat. And that’s sort of it. I have tried to get to know what she actually thinks, but I can’t really find out… I did tell I still like her, but I couldn’t figure out what her reaction meant. So I’m sort of in the middle of two worlds. Partially in a happy world of amazing stuff, and partially in a world of sadness and loneness. Well okay, my friends are there for me when I need them, but it still feels like I’m alone in some way.

I’m slowly starting to prepare myself for the worst. I hope for the best, which is quite logical, but I fear that I blew it all. I blew everything in actually fifteen minutes. And why didn’t I do it better? I don’t know. That’s the stupidest part. I blew it myself and I don’t know why.

So okay.

Hope the best, fear the worst.

See you later!

This is where my story will begin.

Ello. My name is Sander. I’ve always wanted to be a writer of some kind. In first case I tried to be a novelist, but that didn’t quite work out. I did start on it, but after a page of two I quit writing. A few days ago an idea came up in me, namely to become a blogger. At first I had no idea what about, but then life came knocking at my door. So I opened and started a new life adventure, and I feel like sharing my story.

So this is sort of what happened. Somewhere, almost out of nothing, there appeared a girl. She liked me and I liked her. We started to talk more and more and we discovered that we had several things in common. I was really excited about what this could become. Nevertheless, I was oh so nervous as we did not yet meet. This whole story will sound all crazy and stupid, but it’s not less true. It felt like this was finally it.

We were lucky though, with some kind of coincidence we could meet within a very short time (although it felt like months). So we were both really excited about what would happen. Well, at least I was. And so we met. But there was one negative thing we had in common... We are both shy in front of new people. Very little was said and nothing actually happened. Right now we are thinking what we will be doing next. We could try again or just try to forget all about it. I will probably just have to wait some time before I know what will happen. I do hope for the best, to be honest.

And that’s my story. So far...