more on hugging

You how sometimes you have that feeling of needing something? One simple thing that will make you feel so much better?

So I've been having that lately. I still have that. But you know what's funny about it: these feelings are usually... how would you call it... healthy? What your body needs is what you want to have. My biology teacher from high school once showed my class a table of diets according to specific blood groups. We looked at it an d came to the conclusion that your own body knows what you need best.
And so I haven't been having much fun lately. If you worry all the time, the fun part comes hard. Well, everyone has ups and downs... and so today I read an article on hugging. Apparently, it's REALLY healthy...

...isn't it ironic? Lately I haven't been feeling to healthy...

So now I'm thinking this: I need to organize Free Hugs somewhere...

Take Five

tebi duba
tabi daba tibudu da
taba didu da bap
badi dadi fa dap

saba dide
fidla dadu tazibi ba
bada sebi du wap
zubi fedlzi zap

taba tabap
sidabadi
faza diwap....

INSPIRATION

It's what gets us motivated and started. The important thing is to know where to find it. I'll share with you the things that make me want to go wild.

1. good music - and I mean GOOD music. The ambitious kind. Classic and jazz is great, but the best of all is: music from the childhood. Nothing gets you on your two feet better than songs you danced to as a kid. Seriously.
2. coffee... - need I say more? OK.: some chocolate only makes it better!
3. weather - this is a country where good weather is quite rare. I've heard we're the only place in the world that shows air pressure on weather reports. So I say: if you wake up and feel it could be a good day to be active: don't wait for your feet to jump out of bed for you.
4. food - you can either buy it or make your own dish... both can be a good idea. I've been told that a single grape can give you lots of energy. I agree. Fruits and vegetables are my favorite energizers. And if you eat good you feel good. But don't eat too much! Remember that after big meals your blood flows in the brain-stomach direction! You don't want to feel sleepy, now do ya? ;)
5. sports - ...or simple walks even :) go out and, do some exercise and breathe. An hour walk can be a good time to observe the people around you... and come up with a genius plan... hehe...
6. memories - come on, all of us have had unique moments in our lives... would it really hurt to do a "remake"? Sure, the sequels are never as good as the first part... but you can always change some small elements... and you're ready to go! How to manipulate ideas (with an example of the new - not necessarily better - version of 'Charades'):
• change an element (if you use time limits: set a time minimum)
• change the setting/instruments (instead of showing with hands or writing/drawing with pens: use flowers)
• reverse something (only one person is guessing: the rest is showing)
• scramble two elements (first start showing something, then decide what the topic is)
• add an element (if the person guesses before the time minimum - all the rest has to do push-ups)
• omit an element (don't choose who's supposed to guess: someone start doing something and the last person to join in - has to guess what the hell is going on)
  
• ...?...
7. friends and/or family - in short: brainstorming! And - one who might have an idea for fun may find people to join!
8. strangers - who knows!
   
9. love - ....mmmh....

If you have any other ideas.... please share! :)

free hug

...speechless...

so sorry... please forgive...

I just realized what is the source of my "unfunness" phase I'm going through. Yes, the answer is very simple: POLITICS!!!

Ever since I began psychology, I suddenly have gotten interested into what is going on in our government. I came to the conclusion, that it's best to know when to flee. Or take action, or whatever. For the past few years, the political scene in Poland has been some kind of a poor-class comedy, cabaret, or... something... Since October 2005, I don't recall it ever being calm, in fact our new government seems to be concentrating only on the past issues and on getting rid of others they believe to be evil. Yes, you got it: not bad, not harmful: evil. E-V-I-L. I believe that sometime about two weeks ago, I seriously started to consider my emigrant future. The thing is: there is a difference between fun and grotesque... and grotesque is where our Polish politics are now at. Scary...

No wonder my inspiration has been lost... No wonder it ran away. Also, I went to my travel agency two days ago, to get an early reservation for a flight to the US by the end of June. Last year I went there in the mid-April and found something cheap. This year, in the mid-February... nada. I was expected to pay big... and fast. Usually, I like to call a search party around town. In this case, it wouldn't even be unrealistically optimistic to suddenly find 1000$... that would be pure insane... and stupid :).

Great... now I can't even run away for vacation... :D

So this was my self-analysis. One more sip of coffee and away we go!

Eureka!

I have just discovered...

... there is a dude who's life career is all about fun... and I think he might be a psychologist, I couldn't find the information though. But he is a member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

GOLLY!!!

I think I just found a "hero" :)

Exam session

I'm running out of ideas. How can I have fun when I'm supposed to be learning? I guess, and actually, I have just discovered that surely, unless you are a very small child, you cannot really learn and funhave at the same time. You end up being in a ridiculous mood and worse, with none of that new and complicated knowledge you were supposed to obtain. It's worse than if you spend your day just on being lazy. It's a lose-lose situation, and that, my friends, is what we want to evade.

The only fun part in the whole exams-and-essays-all-two-weeks-long thingy is when you see the effect as a grade that satisfies you, and you simply cross out another item on the "to do" list. And on such dark and gloomy weather days like today, you only wish something would inspire. Maybe I'm in some kind of funhaving-crisis phase... yeah... Even the coffee I order at a my favorite place suddenly doesn't taste right...

... well no wonder! I order "orka" coffee and they give me a "flamingo" chai? With cinnamon? Tea and cinnamon don't mix!!! ...I think...