Ugly Words

Lately I feel like my ears are bombarded with nasty words, and it doesn't even matter if I change country, the bad language keeps coming, it flows like an unstoppable river. I have to admit I am no saint, some of those words have come out of my mouth too, but I'm really trying to make an effort not to let them slip. Because I just can't believe that our beautiful languages have been boiled down to unpleasant and offending words. I can't believe that we clever human beings cannot communicate and express ourselves without using bad language.

Just thinking about how it reflects back on me, my family (the rest of the country?) I really wanna change what words I use. I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do or not to do, at all! But I somehow think we all have responsibility for how our language develops and how our children are gonna speak. I for one am gonna try to change the way I speak (it's hard breaking bad habits).

Change is always possible.

Smile :)

Sometimes when you are down you need the world to remind you to smile, a smile is contagious and often we forget to smile to the world around us... Most of the time we walk around without realizing what we express and we don't think about how that effects our surrounding and ourselves. Smiling is free and even if you are in a bad mood or feel down smiling will make you feel better, it releases endorphin's. And we love endorphin's since they make us feel happy and content. 

Today's becoming one of those gloomy Scandinavian days and I think a lot of people will agree that they wouldn't mind a smile. I'm definitely one of them!

Smile to the world :)

Water

I Have made myself a goal to drink more water! I'm really bad a drinking any kind of fluid during the day. On a good day I drink 1 L, and the normal recommendations are 2 L, so that means I have to double up my intake of water. Which is really hard when you never really feel thirst and when you are busy, you just forget sometimes. Most days I come home from work, and realize the only fluid I have been drinking is my one cup of tea in the morning.

The reason I'm so focused on drinking enough fluid is because it's so important for our bodies. The body consists of up to 60% water, that's more than half! You loose some of that 60% every time you breathe, go to the bathroom, sweat etc. And if you don't replenish it, you will get dehydrated which means,  you can get sick more often, get obstipated, feel tired, get headaches more often and a lot more! So of course it's important to drink enough water, it's the most important basic need after breathing!

Now how do we start drinking more water? Because we all know it's easy to say that now I'm going to drink more water. But it's hard to actually do so. What I do is I take a container that I know can hold a certain amount of water, for instance a water bottle that can contain 0,5 L and then my goal is to drink 4 of those a day. It's much easier to drink more when you have a specific goal.

So now I'm going to go back to my 1,75 L of water I still need to drink today, it's almost as hard as having a second job, haha…

Have a great Sunday!

Save A Life...

We had a First-Aid course at work today, because we got an automated external defibrillator (AED), you know one of those where the doctor gives a electrical shock to the patient when their heart isn't beating. Well, we had to learn how to use it today plus normal First-Aid. During this course we had a heated discussion about what people do during a "crisis", almost all of us had experienced a situation where there were people who would just stand and look at this person who was having a heart attack maybe. 

I can't comprehend how it is possible to stand by a person that you can see needs help, but you don't do anything to help. They don't even call 911, or maybe bring to someone else's attention that this person needs help. It's sad that we live in a society where someone can collapse in a crowd and it will take 20 minutes before there is any reaction from the surroundings. There is so little required, you only have to call 911 and stay by the person. The operator will tell you what to do and send help.

I hope you will all take that little amount of responsibility it takes to make a call and save a life.