number 10

i am still here....

i haven't blogged for ages as i have been busy living life, like i said in my last entry, living life right up to bed time, but now i'm back in isolation i can spend some time inside my head and can think of some wonderful and wierd ideas that will hopefully bring a smile to the face or a tear to the eye (a happy tear) of anyone who should read about them

to what extent is optimism important for achievement? do optimists perform better? can someone alter how well they do something simply by having a more positive attitude towards it? is this something schools should be thinking about? if you do perform better with a more positive attitude, should optimism be taught in schools? is it possible to teach such a thing? and to what extent is optimism ignorance? is it better to be realistic?

why am i asking all these things? i suppose i should be honest... i've got to do a piece of work at uni in the next term and this is what i'm thinking of doing it on, it would be useful to get some people's opinions on it... but i also think its an interesting factor to consider, so please do so...

Also it's christmas time and i'd like to propose an idea (actually i'd like to pinch someone else's idea and present it as my own - not really this was the christmas message at my church in leicester, thankyou andy upton) apparently there are bumper stickers in america that have slogans something along the lines of "jesus is the reason for the season" well perhaps they are wrong...?! how about... "we are the reason for the season..." or... "i am the reason for the season..." why do we have christmas...? simple... because of me! (and you of course!)

ask yourself... why christmas...? what is christmas...? we're all after the perfect stress free christmas and if that were possible there'd automatically be no such thing. jesus came because of the very things that we become so aware of at christmas time: our impatience, our anger, our greed, the list goes on...

i don't want to be preachy on here but my faith is too big a part of my life (well... pretty much all of it) to ignore and it seems fitting that at christmas time i give an idea of what i think its about

i noticed i used to have such free flowing, flowery metaphors on here and i miss them i'll try and get them back for my next blog...

..,and the final reason for my christmas blog is that i'm really loving this picture at the moment its some stairs in budapest (thankyou james, again!!) i think its beautiful...