Hamstern - Stock Piling

Reading the subject, I think that most of us think it is about toilet paper, those days, right?

Yes, we are restricted in our lives, the dark clouds hang above us and no one can escape.
Sh!t happens,  right?

So, my beautiful Toilet Roll Collectors, are you happy, now you have a stock for a few months?

And if so, what problem did you solve?
Was there a problem at all? Apart then for the people, who needed paper and could not get it?

Is it stock piling what you do?  I love the german word Hamstern so much more ;-)

The principle of stock piling is saving things for when you are not able to access it anymore.
For example, when you are ill, and you can not leave home, and you have no one around who can get your stuff for you.
So... why the toilet paper?
It was a run, but it is over now, and the shops start getting their normal stock again.
Why did you collect all those cans, all those water bottles (you can drink from the tap, you know!), and heaven knows what more?

I must agree, I have done some extra shopping as well. It was basically, because so many people are buying like crazy.  Look into the mirror.  Do you really want to tell your mom, or your children, that you were in the queue at 6 am to get toilet paper?  How do you explain it ?

The idiot who started buying a pallette of rolls, who was it?   Now the entire worlld is pampered with toilet paper, what's next?

People, be nice for yourself. Be nice for your wallet.  Yes, buy a bit extra. When you get ill, you may not leave your home for 2 weeks.
Ask for help, if you need it.  Yes, I know that that is the problem. There are many lonely people, who have no one to ask for help.
Don't be afraid to ask, if you need help.  You will be surprised what happens!  You have nothing to loose, right?

Care for your neighbour, maybe he or she is the one who needs your help, and can't go out for shopping herself.   How should you feel, if you offer help, and you can not get the item that the other desperately needs?
Would you share your stockpile with them?

Think about it.  The time to think 'me first', is definitely over.
The time now is, together we can!  And we will!

Take the challenge, not the paper work!

Bricks in the wall 3

Saturday. 
A two days weekend.
Can you imagine, how happy I am?

Still no trace from that document...😑😑

Very positive ... A lot of sun☺
A message from my daughter 😍😍
After shopping (what is not fun, those days)  there was market 😊
I avoided it, of course, but it looked so familiar 😄

A little walk on a bright and cold day
Waiting for dinner for two
Almost ready

Tomorrow I really  must find the document.

Bricks in the wall, 2

Things come to a change rapidly, but not so fast as the weather.

The lockdown is prepared, it wont last long before we all are in our houses. 

So, what to do with the time.  Cleaning the house is definitely an option, and it will be done , one day.  Now I feel still a bit restless, and I am running around  without being very productive. What of course is not a nice thing, not for me, and not for my beloved.

So, what I go to do, is writing this blog, and then, after it, a bit of house cleaning. I have to learn it again, I think, and when this lasts a bit, we shall end in a place as it was not before.  Just like in the world outside.

Tomorrow I made this photo. It is exactly telling what the day is.  No sun, not much color. But, if you look well, you see a tree behind the house.
Considering that this is the view that we have from our kitchen, I also got inspired by the book of Anne Frank. Who was hiding as well for something bad, something evil.
And in the time, that she was hiding, she wrote her diary.  As I do it now, now I am hiding (well, not always, but more and more) , for the evil.

Spring starts, officially, and the temperatures will rise.  The grey will soon be decorated with a bit of green. It is the lesson that nature gives us.  After a hard time a winter, with not much sunlight (and loads of rain, lol), it now is time to recover.  The tree is already in spring modus. And every day that I look at it, I will know that we are a day closer to the end of this fear.

I will make messages of hope, as if only to defeat my own unhappy feelings.

I will make a plan, this afternoon, what I can work out and what I can do, a daily scheme.  Life goeson and so are we.

The  countdown started.  We are strong, when we are not alone :)

Bricks in the wall 1

This morning I got the idea of starting a little diary, about the things that happen with and around me.
We are in times, that we can not be sure what is happening tomorrow with us, also it has not much use to think about that. The show will, and shall, go on, and the make up might be flaking, but.... our smile still stays on.

I got a lot of crying people today, they were all worried about the virus that is on its way. Well, I must be careful, else I can join them in their sadness, and not knowing what to do.  I need people to talk to, yes, but for all I need to talk to myself, and stop the thoughts at tomorrow.

I got a nice talk, today. Someone who thinks about challenges. Someone who likes to use the time, to get creative, and do something for us all.

I think that that is amazing, and a good thing to realize.
It are 'slower times'  at the moment, what means, more time forourselves.  Something that we are not good in. We are better in telling others what to do.
Now, we will learn to be good for ourselves. And for the people that are close around you.

Facebook --- again

Let's talk about Facebook

Again?

Yes, again.

Because, we are part of it.  We almost all are part of it, and it is a problem!
It is a problem, that Social Media (for all FaceBook) takes so much of our time.  When I was in the queue in the shopping mall, before me a man was checking his facebook. I am not a stalker, but I saw the F app lightening up at his handy, and he almost 'forgot'  to pay, I guess he had a very important message coming in.

Just like the girl that passed the street, and for only a few centimeters 'missed'  the ER car, what was coming around the corner. It was a narrow escape, but it happens more then we realize!

Anyway, my 'problem'  today with FB and Co is, the messages that come.

Unfortunately there were a few bad things happenng, in Germany there were some bad incidents as well.
Now I am following a few news groups, so I am informed pretty well about what happens.
Now, my friends seem to follow the news as well,and they think it is okay to share the news as well.
Result:  I got about 50 messages in my news feed, about each attack.

What happens, when you see bad news so many times?  What does it do with your psyche?
There is a reason that I do not watch the news on tv, because, it is so often the same. I am good informed, anyway, and when I hear that bad news often, it makes me feel sick, worried, helpless, all the things that are not good for me.

People who spread the news, are not aware of this, of course.  I think that it is as well a thing that is used to influence us.  When we read 100 times about the german killer, we believe that every german is a killer and that we are no where safe.
It is like the troll in our head.  It is not true, but it is connstantly tricking us, and convincing us that we are in danger, that the things are bad, and it makes our psyche react, without that we really want to. No one wants to be in panic, no one wants to be depressive. But this agresive way of communicating makes it more easy, and the hate preachers use it, to influence the people as well.  As I described above, I think it goes much further than thatt.


Is it a reason to skip facebook to the 'was nice, next please* ???  No, not yet, and not at all.

It is a reason to consider who I will follow.  My true friends (I know who they are!) are not the big posters of this kind of messages. But there are a few, that leave no opportunity unused to show the hate, the disaster.
I not need photos of killed animals, to care for their health!  And I not need to see terror, to know that we should love each other, every day!

Selecting friends and groups that I follow.  Less is more. I think we all need the balance, betweeen good and evil. And the only one who can make that, are we, ourselves.

Less is more, I think.
And there it is, another try to use the 'new media'  in a healthy way.

And I am sure I will write more about Fb, later

Sturmfrei .... wtf?

At the moment that I write this, the sun is shining, as if it is spring already, on a beautiful Friday, the next horror messages are coming out of the media. Radio and TV.
Everything is preparing for a stormy weekend, in what we expect, next to the normal rain, a storm, with possible windspeed as in a hurricane (140 Km p H)

So, appearantly it is pretty easy to forecast this, what makes our part of  the country preparing. In the schools will be closed on monday, 'sturmfrei', also free for storm. 
Yes...  Storm Free...To prevent our scholars for worse...

Well, call me old fashioned, but I do not understand such things very well.
I remember the time when we were young (yes, that is a while ago), that we had to go at our bicycles, or if not, by foot, walking, to school when the weather was bad. When there was snow, rain, and also when there was a storm coming up. 
I can not remember that there has been one day, that we did not have to go to school, no matter the weather.  Of course it is good that 'we'  can better foresee what all comes to us, so that we not need to bring ourselves in danger, but.....
When the situation is so serious, why are only scholars prevented?  Why do other groups of  people still have to risk rheir lifes, to go to their shops, to serve people, who appearantly better should stay home, just like the scholars and teachers?

It confuses me, it gives me headaches. Maybe I better stay home, and see if I can get out on Monday.  Oh no.. wait, then not. Oh, why not, I am not a scholar, so I can.   Help.... :)

your choice

Oh, is this about elections?

Well, maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

It is about choices, that we all have to make.
Meanwhile, we see that there is a change in how to act.

Was it a long time fine to listen to the opinion from another, now it seems more like you are pro-  or against someone.
With upcoming elections you see, especially in the social media, more and more 'slogans' coming up.. The reason why I do vote for... and then a few  photos, or words, as ugly as possible,, from an opponent.
There is no space for nuances, not a considering, why the arguements from others are not good.
Discussions come not further then... it is MY opinion, and if you don't like it,  live with it.


Well,  apart then that it is true, that I do not need to follow YOUR opinion, I always try to find out why people do things.
Why is the little guy in school bullying a few others?  What is behind it?  Do we accept it as normal, or do we try to find out what is wrong, so that he might be able to stop bullying (when he knows that he has an alternative way to feel better, for example).

When we can not discss anymore, then we drift away in two camps.  You like what I do, or you don't. And in the end no one knows why we are 'against'  the other, just because his hair is orange, or that he has a strange nose...

I keep on trying to find out why people are who they are, act how they act.
I never shall accept violence, bullying, discrimination.  To name a few.
But I can try to let others see what consequences their behavior has. And I can try to find out, where the agression comes from. 

In my world is no place for violence, even when I, now and then, find myself  guilty as well, in thinking bad without any reason.
In my world is place for love and understanding.
Yes, I know, those words are a bit uncool, those days, but it is a fact, that love is the only way to peace.

Look at yourself.  Can you leave in peace with yourself, without that you love yourself, for what you are, for what you do? It is your choice, to make your world better or not!