The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Prompt: Wisdom. What was the wisest decision you made this year, and how did it play out?
That is for sure a good question and one I have a problem to come up with an answer. Decision I took this year: most of them have an impact on my future since I am now 20 years old and about to finish schooling. Probably the best decision was to finish the school I am at right now and not to break up early. I think that will help me someday. On the other hand it is also the worst decision since I have my problems at school and with the system. I have so many good ideas which I would like to get to work on but have no time for.
So it is as usual: the best at the same time is the worst decision taken. There are some decision to be taken over the next month and I am looking forward to taking them.
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans.
For a long time now I wanted to write a post on the topic of the way I like to party. But I still think it is inappropriate. It is something I do not want to write about in public. Sometime I will. But not now!
About the prompt: Social Gathering that rocked my socks off is most likely the demonstrations around the castor transport of atomic waist through Germany. It was an event I only attended online and read a lot of what was going on via Twitter and social-media. It was a blast to read what was going on and even more of a blast to see what was happening online in the mean time.
This is the event I will describe here. In my personal life there are some others!
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Prompt: Beautifully Different. Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different – you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful.
I can not tell what makes me different. At least I am not as narcissistic as I would need to be to say that I light people up. Maybe I just don not know if and how I lighten people up. But I am pretty sure that I am different in many things I do.
I tend to do things the way I want to. I tend to swim against the current. And that for example is shown in wearing my cloth, doing my thing, not drinking any alcohol, not smoking at all and many other things. Some of which are not too different but if you look at my age most of which is at least not normal. Maybe those things make people think sometimes but most of the time it does not make your life easier since I am the one who has to reason my behavior. I yet found the persons who make me feel good, beautiful or favorable as is.
Even though I think I am handling my life well, that I am on the right track and have nothing to be ashamed of. I will go on doing my thing and improve along the track. I will keep my thing up and even though it is against the current I will succeed! That is my intention for 2011. And maybe someday there is a possibility to see if I am right in what I do and hopefully someday I will not have to reason that many of my doings as now. Maybe…
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Prompt: Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it?
To make is something I can not stop. I am always thinking about new things to make or to achieve. Sometimes new things, new projects. Sometimes new ideas for an already ongoing project. The last things I made have been photographs and the last big project I finished has been AIDvertisement.net. For those two things I mostly used my Macs or my Cameras. And some digital tools like Lightroom, Photoshop and Coda.
Making is something that makes me happy. Finishing even more! 2011 will bring many new things to the table as far I can see and it will be exiting since I will be able to actually get my hands on more stuff than I had time for over the past year. I will have some exiting stuff coming in about a year from now!
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Prompt: Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?
There are many things this prompt makes me think about but there are many which I am not going to write here in all the public internet. But I have my take on this which I think I am ok with sharing.
It is one thing to think about this prompt from a personal relationship matter. But it is an other to look at it form a internet relation ship basis.
I tend to admire some people online about what they do and what they accomplish. Many of which I try to get everything they publish online. I try to get to know how they accomplished their goal and how I can replicate that process.
This year I let go some of those things. I was reading their stuff online, I was following them on twitter and spent hours on that. I let go those very shallow ‘relationships’ to spend time with either real-life relationships or to spend the time on what I think is more valuable: own projects.
Other things I let go:
- Many things I read in the RSS like for example big Apple news blogs
- Many unnecessary Twitter people I just followed but did not actually want to read
The best about letting go is that it most of the time is not as hard as you think. You just need to take the first step and move on.
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Prompt #4: Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year?
Side-Note: This prompts are keeping getting harder to answer. But it is challenging and that is great!
About the Wonder part: what made me wonder what cultivated a sense of wonder?
My current wonders are looking out of the train in the morning while driving to school, listening to some great music and having nothing to do till I get to school (somedays I have to study in the train). Especially in the last few days where there was such a great amount of snow everywhere and the reflections and glittery feel of it.
But there much more things that made me wonder of which most are related to people in my life. Some new people came into my life this year which is great and I am enjoying the change that slowly starts. Some other people slowly disappear and some others get more important. It is change all around me and there are very interesting moments to come in the future!
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
The prompt this time is Moment – remember a moment in 2010 and its smells, texture, voices, noises and colors. I am having a hard time doing this. There are so many moments in my life but I can not remember one in depth. At least I am not able to chose.
The moment to be described this time I chose the travel to spain. It has been the first time I traveled for a three week trip on my own. The time I spent at the transit airport — over 3 hours — have been a thoughtful experience. I sat down in some area where I found many seats and actually I was able to lie my self a little and relax. I listened to Ich bin dann mal weg: Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg by Hape Kerkeling
(Affiliate). Mr. Kerkeling normally is a german commedian. But with this book he describes his way and the experiences he had during the time he spent walking the Way of St. James. He quiet hit me with that and I enjoyed listening to the book but what is more interesting about this moment was that I decided over the course of the listening — I actually needed some more days to finish — that I will do that walk too! This is the first time to mention that on the internet. After I finished school the start of my after school life will be introduced by this massive walk over 800km (500miles).
I remember that time sitting in the airport listening in some way as a change time. Manifesting my way for the future.
The December and this Post is about to look back on the year 2010 and forward to 2011, together with many other people around the world who participate in the #Reverb10 Project.
Blocked
I have chosen this word to describe the year 2010 because it describes my situation and how I feel my self sometimes. I am blocked. A little bit by my self and most of it by the school system. I want the highest general education degree possible in Germany and I have the possibility to write it. How it will turn out is an other question. The thing is: I have to many other plans and ideas. Things I like to do better. Things I think I need to get done to stay on top of the news and to stay in the flow with the technology and stuff. So that I do not loose track. That blocks my school work. Which essentially than worsens my marks in school. But in addition it also is bad for my feelings. I am never pleased with my self. I always search ways to not do school stuff which than makes me feel bad. The second thing that is blocked is through the school. The school blocks my dreams. I have some plans I would like to work out. I want to go the freelance route and to go in all in! But I feel like I can not do that as long as I do not have this degree. Overall: I need to stay in this till Jun and than I can start what I want to.
Change
Is the word I would like to be the word of 2011 for me. It represents drastic changes in my personal life, professional life as well as my location, people, thinking and feelings. I have some great thoughts and ideas for 2011 and I will to accomplish them—there is no room for: might! Even though the change already has to start from the beginning. I have to change my attitude about school a little and be more disciplined. So the changes are:
- One: do only school till june! (no big other projects or stuff).
- Two: do my stuff and change a lot in life after June!
That is it for today. Prompt 1 of #Reverb10. I am exited about the next one tomorrow!
It is that always have ideas in the wrong moment. Wrong by the means of I usually do not have the time to get down to actively produce what I would need to get them done. But I still do sit down and think about them. They are blocking my mind from the stuff which actually is important right now. The bad about this is that I have decided to finish this year of school. After that I have a time dedicated to my ideas. To try new stuff and to get down to things that I really like and enjoy doing. Even though that is against most of the social standards here in Germany!
Even though. This post is not about what I am going to do next year or anything like that. It is about what I am going to do this year. This year 2010 nearly is over. There are merely 1 month left which is filled with stuff you have to get done. For example you need to get some Christmas presents for family and friends ready. Focus on time with friends and family. And finish the last year.
The focus on this post is on the ‘finish the last year’ part. I have had a lot of todos over the past year. Many of which I actually got done. Some of which got canceled and some which are still undone. The thing is: with only one month left you can not focus on all the unfinished things. You need to focus on the important parts. The following is about my plan how to handle the last month of todos:
I hope that gave some insights about how I try to focus. If you have any ideas what I could do better please contact me via email or Twitter.
Movies or TV-Series. I know a couple of people who really enjoy watching a TV-series every week—or even daily. Some buy the whole Season on DVD and watch them one part after another. Most Series do not have an end. Some seem to be never ending, some have a defined end and some get discussed weather to continue or not after the current season was streamed. But what the Series all have in common is that they need your attention, they want to chain you into the story. They want you to want to watch the next episode and in conclusion: that needs your time — much of it!
Over the course of my interest in life-style design there are many who discuss weather you need a TV or not. I think the discussion is not weather you need a TV but more about how you use the TV or the content that comes through it. My take on the whole thins is the following:
First of: I think TV-Series are evil! I tend to enjoy some and that is kinda scary, cause I also tend to fall for them and have this feeling of: I want to watch the next episode. Currently I am pretty good at holding my self back. Some evening I lay my self down in front of the TV and switch it on, watch one episode of whatever I chose and just enjoy this one episode, currently I am am very good in not wanting to watch all the other episodes that would come afterwards. But overall my argument is that movies are much better! Movies are longer (per ‘episode’) but most of the time they are closed stories.
Movies are the way to go! In January I tried something: I tried to watch 31 movies in 31 days. I actually made it. And I kept the habit of doing a statistics about the movies I watched till today and I will continue further but what is interesting: in the beginning of the year I nearly daily watched one movie. And if I have a look at the past 4 weeks: I watched less movies than before and if I watched a movie the percentage of movies watched in cinema is much higher!
Conclusion!
TV is not evil. The TV-Series are evil. The movies are the way to go and the right does is what you need to figure out!
If you have something that you enjoy more than watching a movie: you will not have the desire to watch as many movies / TV!