today’s quote would have to be this one, verbalized by albert einstein:

it is unbelievable how much the people of my borg (~high-school) class have changed since graduation.

today, after learning some …interesting news, i came to think about the time that we all sat there in one class. and i noticed that this precious batch of memories is only 2,5 years old!
of course, if someone had told us about our future back then, no one would have believed a bit.

so now, having repressed most of the (few) bad reminders from the past, i can’t help but reminisce about the great times we had in borg: the school trips, the boring lessons, the fun&creative breaks (including rumba-queues throughout the whole building), even the “whole class vs. teacher” arguments…
back then, we were constantly told how nice school is compared to real life, but we didn’t buy it. that’s probably just something you have to experience for yourself to really understand it.

 
people my age are making decisions FOR LIFE now. they get ahead, go places, and sometimes take routes that nobody could have predicted.
it’s almost as if we’re they’re grown-ups now.

this impression is intensified by a new “meeting people”-phase: i’m constantly running into old acquaintances and colleagues that i haven’t met in a long time. looks like this is a cyclic phenomenon…

there’s so much to tell once you run into somebody, and (for me) there’s a profoundly good feeling coming along. even if it’s just saying “hi!” and doing some 30 seconds of smalltalk…

 
i guess the world really doesn’t stop turning if you’re not around…

 
[lyrics quote of the moment]

riverdance – the countless cathleen (instrumental)

something that really upsets me is needless stupid behaviour.
like someone throwing half a kebab out of the bus, just because he doesn’t want to eat it anymore.

i was already annoyed because the whole bus was smelling like kebab.
then, that teenage boy threw his kebab out, and i wanted to point out to him that that’s not ok. he didn’t hear me talking (at a normal voice), although i sat right behind him. when he threw out his friend’s leftover-kebab at the next stop, i got …a little louder than i usually get in the bus.
so he *did* pick up the stuff that didn’t make it out of the bus, as i told him very distinctly.
the nice aspect: an elderly lady sitting next to me immediately backed me up!

and i tend to think that my hairdo did its part in saying “i’m not afraid of anybody”

 
it’s nice *not* to live in a big city, where people stab you if you point out their misbehaviour…

[lyrics quote of the moment]
maybe we’re just trying to hard,
when really it’s closer than it is too far.
cause i’m in too deep, and i’m trying to keep,
up above in my head, instead of going under.
sum 41 – in too deep

there’s no way i’m going under!

 
… ’nuff said for tonight!