It was an unforgettable morning full of excitement and expectations. Finally we made it, we will spend incredible holiday as a family together. Since there isn't lately anything impossible we decided to fly to the Moon. Our friends enjoyed unbelievable honeymoon two years ago in 2089 there and their experiences fascinated me so much that the Moon became my dream destination. We packed stuff and we were ready, our journey people 20 years ago considered something unrealizable, got started. First of all we met astronaut, who gave us instructions. In 30 minutes we were sitting in the spacecraft wearing uncomfortable space suits and our flight was about to start. When the spacecraft took off, we felt horrible mixture of sickness, headache and dizziness and it took us long time to overcome it. Luckily later things got better, so we decided to have lunch. It was big mistake because such inedible dish I have never tasted in my life! I started blaming myself, I shouldn't have forced my family to go with me, it was unforgivable mistake and I felt like the most irresponsible woman in this universe. Suddenly spacecraft changed the direction and in few minutes we landed. We went outside and the view we saw, it was such undescribable experience one can hardly express by the words BUT... in few minutes some weird flying objects started attacking on us. Dust was everywhere and we didn't see anything, we thought we were invisible because aliens disappeared. Nobody informed us about these attacks, all travel agencies decided to hide this fact and came up with the excuse that attacks are unpredictable. Because of this situation we had to spend the whole holiday in the hotel for security reasons. This holiday was our worst and I can literally call it terrible nightmare! I will never ever recommend anybody to fly to the Moon.

Hello guys,
today some melancholic and sad mood wanted to destroy my optimistic soul, so I decided to go through the best therapy - to compose a poem. Autumn depression is here, exactly as I have described it in my blog about autumn, now I HATE YOU, AUTUMN!!! :-) Just pray for me so that it would be soon gone and I wouldn't bother you anymore with some silly poems :-D

HIDDEN IN THE MIST

At times I want to find myself in the thick mysterious mist,

in place where no people, no obstacles, nor limits exist.

It is magical place inside of my mind, little bit dark, no sun,

everything around is blured and I dream of the only one:

To immerse myself in endlessly deep ocean of thoughts,

to forget about own existence and feel happily lost.

I know such unique beautiful moment will hardly repeat,

I know the mist will soon disappear and we will never meet.

Hence right now I am enjoying my stay in this lost foggy world,

with all its indescribable feelings, full of untold hidden words.

Dear Susan,

your latest letter made me sad so the only one thing I can do for you as your best friend is to give you some piece of advice I consider the most effective. I know that it isn't easy at all to live alone after divorce and I know that you find each and every advice people order you sort of unreal.  Anyway, Susan, life goes on and my advice is: "Get on with it, girl! Don't be stuck in the past better live in the present moment." Another word of advice, which is on my mind and might be useful is: "Try to go out, have fun with friends, just don't  sit alone at home." What do you think of it? I know very well that your friend Tina came up with advice like to work hard to forget about everything what hurt you and I fully agree but believe me that you can be even more active to feel once more again "alive".  Just get yourself together and listen to the closest ones who come up with sincere advice, who want to help you out of this stressful period of your life. One day when you remember it, I mean all those people giving you their best piece of advice, I am sure you will be laughing because some of their advice will suddenly seem so ridiculous. I don't want to be somebody who tells you how to live your life, I just care for you and I hope at least one of my advice made you little bit calm. I wish you were again able to see the world from more positive perspective.

Eternally yours, Luci

Hello friends,

today I would like to help you little bit and I hope my advice will be useful at least for some of you. You know, I have read many blogs here, no matter what your English level is, and if I sum it up, many times I have come across one mistake, which repeats over and over again. What is it?

Ok let me reveal this mysterious mistake... ehmm... wait, wait.. not now, let me firstly point out that  I don´t want to be here in the position of somebody superior, of course we all make the mistakes but since I am aware of it I decided to help others, who might have no idea that they make such mistakes.  

Well, guys, time has come, Grammar Inspector woke up inside of me and wants to share something, soooo listen up:

"Dear EC members, please, DON´T DIVIDE ONE WORD INTO TWO INDIVIDUAL WORDS, it might sound little bit weird to understand I know, so for better understanding check kindly the examples bellow:

1. MAYBE

I think the most common mistake. If you want to use MAYBE as PERHAPS – adverb, it must be ONE WORD. The thing is that expression MAY  BE also exists but it has totally different meaning.

Examples:

A/ It is nice weather, MAYBE I will go outside. (I am thinking about it, it isn´t so certain, if I should go or not - maybe – perhaps - ONE WORD) 

B/ It MAY BE good idea to spend the weekend in the mountains. (Here MAY BE is similar to MIGHT BE – it is VERB - TWO WORDS) 

2. SOMEBODY, EVERYBODY, ANYBODY etc.

Especially the word SOMEBODY I have seen many times written here as SOME BODY. Guys, if you divide this word it has totally different meaning or it will become nonsense since the word BODY means human corpus.

Examples:

A/ EVERYBODY in the class is so nice with me. SOMEBODY has stolen my purse. (Here both - everybody and somebody are pronouns - it means they must be ONE WORD).

B/ I was walking at night in the forest and suddenly I saw SOME BODY on the ground. (means for example dead body, here SOME BODY are TWO words - some - pronoun, body - noun)

3. MYSELF, YOURSELF etc.

Even this word I have seen here divided. Here it doesn´t have any special meaning, if you divide it but I have one tip for you, how to remember it. As you can see in such words like MYSELF, YOURSELF etc. appears SELF – so remember that SELFISH people are greedy and they would never ever divide anything – means MYSELF, YOURSELF should be kept as one word. Maybe for some of you silly advice, for others something useful :-)."

Well, that´s all for today I wanted to share with you, dear learners, hope Grammar Inspector explained it clearly and if you have some questions, leave them among the comments. Thanx for reading me :-)

Hello guys,
I decided to take part in Mr. Bob´s Dialogue Challenge and to prove that dialogue is possible to make even though it is just one man - ehm woman show :-D

So here is my link with audio record:
https://audioboom.com/boos/2648556-dialogue-challenge-jane-wants-to-lose-her-weight

And here is the text:
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (phone is ringing)
Peter: Hello Jane, how are you doing, my friend?
Jane: Hello Peter, to be honest, I am little bit down, that´s why I decided to call you.
Peter: Ohhh, I am sorry to hear that. What´s your problem?
Jane: Well, you know I noticed I gained and since you are personal trainer in the fitness center I wanted to ask you for some advices.
Peter: Jane, to be honest, in your latest facebook profile picture you look little bit ehmmmm how to say it „bigger“ and I was wondering, what is going on with you. Anyway, it is good you decided to ask me, I will do my best to help you. Have you already started doing anything against it?
Jane: Sure, I bought some diet supplements and I reduce my portions. However, I feel so week , yesterday I almost collapsed, so I am sure, something is wrong.
Peter: OHHHHHH NOOO, are you kidding me? Please don´t believe in some magic power of diet supplements, they won´t help you so much. As for eating, you should eat five times a day.
Jane: NOOOOO I can´t do it, to eat five times a day, it would make me even fatter!
Peter: Not at all!!! Depends on what you eat. So remember that you should eat once in three hours.
Jane: But what should I eat?
Peter: Hmmm, that´s good question. Forget about fried, junk food, chips, cakes, chocolates. Instead of it focus on vegetable, fruits, salads, chicken, fish… don´t underestimate your breakfast, never skip it
Jane: Ok Peter, I will think about it. What about drinking? May I take one glass of wine in the evening?
Peter: Oh my gosh, I must be very patient with you, my dear friend. Alcohol contains so many callories, drink water, water and water or some fruit, herbal tea and don´t forget to drink one glass of water in the morning before you take breakfast.
Jane: Well, when I am thinking about it, it means that my life will be totally changed since the start of the next month. WOOW, hmm, I am so excited about it, I love it! So thank you Peter, thank you.
Peter: Why can´t you start right now? Those who say I will start in some days, will never succeed!!! And the last thing, don´t forget about sport, try to be active, do some sport activity three times a week. By the way you can visit me in the gym.
Jane: OHHHH, please have some mercy on me, you know I am just poor blonde girl who is trying to get it all. Anyway, I have to leave now to polish my nails, so see you soon in the gym! Byeee
Peter: Ok girl, m curious if you can make it, you can call me whenever you want to. Take care, bye.

Well, I hope nobody will start searching free bed for me in the madhouse after listening to it!!! :D Just take it as a fun :-p

It was just an ordinary autumn day and I was preparing here everything for the birthday celebration of my daughter. Since I was in a hurry, I asked  my husband to take the garbage out and in few minutes he came back and was holding in his hand a coin. Ehm… boring? Ok, let me add one important fact. The coin he brought was from the year 1851.

Firstly I was just staring at it and didn´t believe how come he was able to find something like this. Something what is 163 years old, he just found on the pavement. Maybe some numismatists was moving and somehow lost it, maybe a dog found it in the grass, hard to say.  All of a sudden so many questions started popping up in my mind. What´s the story of this coin? Who had to work hard to earn it? What one was able to buy for it? I became obsessed with it, literally I wanted to know everything.  

As for the history of the city part I live in, I know it was just a village (situated close to the city) surrounded by the fields and around 1851 approximetaly one thousand inhebitants lived here. As you know I am curious and I decided to look up what happened during the year 1851 here in my city. I came to know that in Ostrava thanks to another one drill people discovered black coal reserves and the very next year the new mine was opened. Maybe some of the workers was the owner of the coin, why not..  In the same year was also opened the chain bridge over the river.  What if that one person traveled to visit their relatives or went to buy something, maybe he or she went over the bridge ..why not? If only the coin could have told me its story…

As a matter of the fact I would like to point out that in the year 1851 the Czech republic as an independent state didn´t exist and it was under the control of Habsburg monarchy with the seat in Vienna – the capital of Austria. Why am I telling you? Well, if you check the coin, you can see that there is written 1 KREUZER and this word is originally from German language. It is maybe even more exotic to me because this change already doesn´t exist, now we use the Czech CROWN. 

What was one able to buy for 1 KREUZER in the 19th century here? Well, don´t laugh but I would be able to buy just 1 kg of the potatoes :-D Anyway, here are some interesting facts I came across:

What was possible to buy  for.. :           

20 kreuzers:  1 kg of rice                     

30 kreuzers:  hen  

300-400 kreuzers: trousers

6000 kreuzers: cow                         

Sallary:

mason:  1.800 kreuzers/month 

fireman: 1.000 kreuzers/month                     

officer: 1.600 kreuzers/month    

teacher: 1.000 kreuzers/month

*Poor teachers in our history had to suffer a lot with such low sallary.

I know I can´t turn back the time, I know that the mistery of this coin will never be revealed. Some of you would maybe sell it even though the price of it isn´t anything extraordinary, just around 3-5 dollars, depends on the condition. I have better plan. I decided that it would be nice idea to give it to my children when they are older and to ask them to give it to their children. Isn´t it awesome to keep such historical heritage in the family?

Finally you came.

The whole year I have been impatiently waiting for you.

All the year I was just curious to see you, to admire your beauty. 

Dear autumn, welcome to my life again, I missed you so much.

To walk in all these crunching yellow and red leaves, to take a breath and feel the cold morning air, to watch all these magical sceneries around.

You are talented painter,  you can draw the best masterpiece of all the times and I do appreciate your work a lot.

I simply can´t help myself and everytime you appear, I have to take the pictures of you.

To capture the beauty, the undescribable moments forever, is just something wonderful.

I love you but I also hate you, however that´s what love is about.

If you show me your bad side, fullfil my days with cold, rainy weather, I can´t stand you.

You can make me depressed , so after such period I eagerly wait for every single sunshine, which  can make my life once more again happier and can give me the energy to love you more.

Please, stay the way you are just right now - sunny weather, leaves falling down from the trees, little bit cold breeze and the peace.

Let me absorb this moment, let me remember it because afterwards I will have to overcome winter, spring and summer, will be again waiting for you for so many months  with knowing that it is worth it! 

Let me add the pictures I took...

Once upon a time there was a kingdom, where people lived peacefully and enjoyed each and every awesome day. The royal family was very popular and finally the day, when the Princess Smarty turned the age when others get married, has come. Her father the King Respectful II. didn't want to wait longer and decided to organize the courtship. He invited every prince from the surrounding kingdoms and all people were eagerly waiting for the princes' decission. Smarty was very very choosy but on the other hand she was well known for her smartness and golden heart. Since this was supposed to be a big step, in fact the start of her new life period, she didn't want to underestimate it, didn't want to be in a hurry with her final verdict.

In one week she wisely chose three best "candidates" and noble people, including royal family gathered in the Grand Royal Ballroom decorated in very festive style. The King Respectful II. welcomed all and announced that before the Princess Smarty would choose one of those three young men, she insists in asking one question.

The Princess stood up and said: "My dear three princes, let me ask you one simple question. Please, tell me, what would you do, if you saw me eating worms?"

Suddenly the royal ballroom turned to little bit weird place. People were confused, didn't know what to think and some of them even started doubting, if their princess didn't go mad.

The Prince James Careful answered first: "Dear Smarty, do you really want to eat worms? I have to admit that it is something so yucky to me and to see people eating worms would make me without doubt disgusted. I want to be your husband but I am not sure if I can love somebody who is able to eat worms. Please, try to change your mind. 

Now the Prince George Dominant was ready to answer: "Smarty, if I saw you eating worms, as your husband I would immediately order you to stop it! You are smart enough to know that I am right and I mean it in good way with you!"

As the third one prince Henry Tolerant came up with his answer: "Princess, in my opinion you are free to do what you want. If you like worms, it is simply your free choice and nobody has right to judge you. I would let you enjoy eating them."

After listening to them attentively, Smarty realized she didn't need long time to make the decission. She came to her father and whispered to his ear:

"Dad, please let me choose Henry Tolerant, he is the only one of them, I am able to imagine my life with.

The King was smiling and answered:  "My beloved daughter, you made great decission, and I am so proud of you!"

Later the King Respectful II. announced, who is going to marry his daughter and people in the ballroom started muttering since some of them didn't understand why princess chose Henry Tolerant. Princess again stood up, clupped her hands to make people quiet and said: 

"Dear inhebitants of our beautiful kingdom, I was raised in freedom and to be controlled by somebody, to live imprisoned with someone who wouldn't respect me or would be disgusted by me, it all would kill my nature. I hope you want to see me happy and smiling instead of sad and hurt. Please, respect my choice the same way the Prince Tolerant proved he would respect me eating worms."

In few days there was wedding ceremony and do believe it or not, dear readers...they lived happily in harmony, peace and tolerated each other till the rest of their lives. 

                                                    --- E N D ---

Thank you for reading it, dear friends.

I just wanted you to stop for a while and to think about yourself, if you are TOLERANT or NOT. 

Have you ever been a victim of the manipulator? Or what's even worse - have you ever manipulated anybody? I guess, we all came across something like this at least once in a life time. To manipulate means to skillfully force others to do the things we want them to do, even though it is against their will. Sometimes we aren't even aware of the fact that somebody applies their manipulating technique on us. On one hand we can say, it can happen mostly to people with low self-confidence, on the other hand there are the situations that make us weak and then we can easily become the manipulator's victim.

Even innocent kids try to manipulate their "desperate" parents at early age. All these crying scenes to get something they long for, we can without doubt call manipulation. Poor kids just think..the more I will cry, the better it will work and I will get what I want. In my opinion, if we show them that such scenes are totally useless, will not pay attention to them, they will learn that such way of acting is not effective. It isn't easy at all but once we succeed, we are on the best way not to raise spoiled kid.

What about teenagers? Have you ever experienced the situations like...your classmates expected from you something forbidden such as smoking, cheating during the test etc and if you rejected doing it, all those so called friends would consider you loser? This is also manipulation since somebody is pushed in the corner and is forced to do the things against their own principles, morals. Honestly, such manipulating "friends" might influence us a lot in a bad way and it is nightmare of all the parents to see their kid surrounded by such kind of people.

Another chapter is love and manipulation. Unfortunately, there are people who think that to love somebody also means to owe him or her. Sentence like: "You don't love me, since you don't want to do this or that for me" is just typical example of manipulator's behaviour. Furthemore, if one wants to break up with the manipulator, it won't be easy at all. Some of those people might go so cheap that they are able to emotionally blackmail partner and they even don't hesitate to say: "If you leave me, I will commit suicide". Since nobody wants anybody to die, victim's life can become hell. Even though most of the manipulators will never commit suicide, they simply will do everything to force the second one to stay.

To find out, if the manipulator is somewhere around you, check this website to get to know their psychological profile:

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/emotional_manipulation.htm

In the end I would like to point out that there are several ways of manipulation we might face - we can be manipulated by tricky sellers who persuade us to buy something absolutely useless or our kind boss can in few days turn to the worst manipulator, who will force us to work 24/7.

So dear friends, just be careful when you find yourself in the situation you don't feel comfortable, stay strong and say: "ENOUGH!!!"

I am GARBAGE and I hope, you guys will enjoy calling me like this :-D Here are my useful tips I just summed up few hours ago in the stinky dustbin I occupy!

1. Don´t mix me with other waste

I like being seperated, I am individualist and honestly I dislike being mixed with other waste. I am aware of the fact that you - human beings are lazy and seperating might be consider time taking, therefore I would like to recommend you to invest your money in purchasing recycle bins. One for me - garbage, second one for my jealous brother - trash.

2. Don´t throw me away on the streets

Dear people, you all have smart brains in your heads, so try to use them and don´t be selfish and careless. When it comes to throwing me away on the streets, I feel so sad about it. I don´t want to find myself on the streets, I don´t want to make them messy, better let me rest in peace - in the DUSTBINS !!!

3. Don´t store me for a long time at home

I dislike being stored in the households for a long time. I can become awful stinker and you know that to visit somebody and smell me around isn´t anything one would feel comfortable with. So my another advice is – don´t store me for a long time, I need to get out of your house. Do believe me that I don´t want to invite visitors like rats and other cute animals to your house !

4. Don´t keep me in the residential areas

I don´t want to occupy the cities, I don´t want to float the rivers. Try to make some space for me out of the city or the village. I love places like dumps, on the other hand I know it isn´t any breath taking view to see me and my brother trash in the nature, though. Howerver, it is more acceptable than to find myself somewhere in the residential areas.

5. Don´t ever dare to touch me

In the case you remembered there may be something interesting in your rubbish bin and you want to find it, keep on your mind that some parts of me might get rotten or even moldy! If you don´t use gloves, if you don´t watch out meanwhile touching me, you might get some infection or dissease! Don´t understestimate this and please don´t touch me because sincerely, I hate being touched by human beings hands !!!

6. Don´t forget to educate your kids

Teach your kids basic important facts about me, which I have just mentioned above. In the end parents are those who are role models for their kids. For instance show them that to throw me away on the street is not good idea at all. Such way of raising the kids could help us to make our life better, to make our environment cleaner.

It was late September night, kids were sleeping and after a long time I decided to open a book. Firstly I wanted to choose it randomly but then the book my mom gave me last year for Xmas caught my all attention. You know, I am crazy reader, once I am reading a book I feel like I must finish it as soon as possible. My husband was watching one of his action movies I can't stand and when his movie was over he said goodnight, which I almost didn't notice since I was so immersed in the story.

Some minutes passed and I heard my daughter crying in the bedroom. Anyway, I knew my husband was there and to give her dummy isn't such a big deal, so I decided to continue reading. However, crying was getting more and more intense and after few seconds I caught myself being very nervous. I stood up and sort of upset went there.

I made my daughter calm, just gave her instinctively dummy she was looking for, something I can do even with closed eyes and....then I realized it!!!

Such cry would wake up dead body and my husband was sleeping?!! "Omg, what is going on?" I asked myself. It was dark and I couldn't properly see, if he is in bed or not. I found as a good idea to check his presence by touching his feet because I was standing near them. I touched blanket..and ....nothing!!! He wasn't there!!! Panic totally controlled my mind. In some seconds my sight got better and I was able to recognize what I saw. I looked down on the floor if he isn't lying there..and again nothing. In such a situation some people become insane so do believe me that even idea like UFO kidnapped my husband was for a while on my mind!

Oh my gosh, finally I realized it! I didn't know if I should start crying or laughing. My confused brain was restarted and ready to help me out of this scary "nightmare". All of a sudden I remembered my husband telling me that this night he will sleep with our son in his room because he must wake up early in the morning and didn't want to be disturbed by our daughter.

Honestly, I felt like idiot but I was immensely happy that my husband didn't disappear. So guys, no matter what's going on around you, try to stay calm and don't panic!!! :D 

  ❤ HEART ❤

Last time I came up with "Bloody blog" and I think, guys, you liked it so here I am with another one related blog .. this time.. about HEART ❤.

Without doubt heart is one of the most important organs in human body and your heart beat proves daily that you are alive. Heart is a muscle and to have strong and healthy heart, one should work on it. What can we do for it? Easy - just follow healthy life style. Grab some vegetable and fruit instead of junk food, instead of three cups of coffee, drink three glasses of water (ehm ok one coffee is allowed) and instead of sitting in front of the computer, go outside and move your body!!! Of course, smoking and drinking alcohol are another two factors which influence the quality of our heart in a bad way, so guys think about it properly if it is worth it to spoil your health just because of some bad habbits.

If we go back to the history not so many people in the past died of heart dissease. On the other hand in Egypt were discovered bodies of mummies that were 3000 years old and after checking them, american scientists came to know that they suffered from heart dissease. How come? In their opinion Egyptian food was very fatty, which could have been one of the reasons. In Ancient Greece people were aware of the fact they have heart and well-known philosopher Aristotle mentioned heart as the most important organ in his many studies. In the Middle Age studies about heart got kind of stuck because religion was more dominant. Later many scholars wanted to go for the heart surgery and first unseccesful attempts appeared in 18th century. However, so called "doctors" were scared of cutting the heart because they believed that since heart is still in move - wound can´t be cured. Finally in 1896 German doctor Ludwig Rehn succeeded in his heart surgery and since then medicine got evolved a lot. Nowadays, as you know heart transplantations are being performed and such invention for sure saved, save and will save many lives. I think we should be thankful to all those scientists, doctors who work hard on their studies, surgeries to extend our life.

Let me share now some interesting facts about heart I came across :

Did you know that our heart beats daily 100.000 times?

On the basis of researches – owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks more than a third. (so high time for me to surround myself by three cats to be fully protected :-D)

According to studies – multivitamines increase the risk of heart dissease !

Your left lung is smaller than your right one. Why? There must be more space for your heart.

Eating the dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart dissease by one third!

For more interesting facts you can visit this website, which was my source :

http://www.factslides.com/s-Your-Heart

As we all know heart is also a symbol of love and since I am curious, I tried to look up on the internet how old the sign itself is and where it came from. Did you have a clue about it?

Well, if I sum it up - the first form of this symbol was the LEAF of the plant called IVY. These symbols of IVY we can see on the oriental ceramics, which is 4000 years old. Later it was spread to Europe and old Greeks and Romans also used this symbol. In short – green ivy leaf was symbol of love in the acient times. Anyway, the symbol as we know it nowadays started being popular in the Middle Age, especially in the 15th century and was more related to romantic love, we can see it in historical poems and of course green color turned to red one since people knew more about heart, especially how it looks like. Since 19th century people started using the symbol of heart on Valentine´s cards, candy boxes – simply as a symbol of  romantic love. And the last but not least, nowadays we use heart symbol a lot in our text messages so I am sure that all of you know what this symbol means ………..  <3

And now.. high time to study, guys !!! Here are some interesting ❤HEART idioms: 

Young At Heart

Somebody who is old but their actions don´t match up their age, they act as a young, cool people. (I would like to mention as a great example our member Rysperski - hope he will not mind it).

Example : My neighbour is enjoying his life and I can say he is young at heart since he goes clubbing at the age of 60.

Pour one´s heart out to someone

To start sharing all worries, troubles, sadness with others, to express emotions all of a sudden.

Example : Jane was very tensed lately because of divorce and yesterday she poured her heart out to me.

With All One´s Heart And Soul

To do something with big enthusiasm, energy and to put some effort in it. Simply to be excited about doing it.

Example : I wrote this blog with all my heart and soul to show you some interesting facts.

Eat your heart out

We use this idiom when somebody is so jealous or envious.

Example : When she comes to know that I was in the USA, she will eat her heart out !!!

Follow your heart

To follow something we consider the best option.

Example : I know that you are still not sure what to do, if to move or to stay with parents, anyway you should follow your heart.

Thank you all for reading my blog and I hope your hearts will beat for a long time !!!

This blog I decided to dedicate to something what can scare you, can make you even insane and sometimes you can have problem to handle it because it totally control your mind !!! Still not getting me, what I am here writing about? Ok, I won't be mysterious, I won't tease you, dear readers, let me introduce you the word: FEAR !!!

It is obvious that fear evolves with our mind. Since we get older and older day by day, the things we fear are being changed. Let me share here with you fear I have come across so far and please at least pretend that you sympathize with me :-)

As a little innocent girl (hope you can imagine it) I was very scared of the dogs. Now I can just laugh at it but at the age of 5 when some big dog started sniffing around me, I can't even describe how much terrified I was at such moment. By the way as we know the dogs can recognize when somebody is scared and it made such situations even worse !! Luckily, no dog has ever bittten me and I wonder how come they were so patient.

Later, when I was older around 10 years this fear turned to something new. Anytime I saw somewhere outside drunk stranger I was very frightened. I even felt that they had some special instinct to recognize my fear and it attracted them to start conversation with me. Drunk strangers outside were simply my nightmare and I would say that even now I still don't feel comfortable in company of drunk annoying people.

As a teenager I guess at the age of 15 when I attended grammar school, fear of being examined when I wasn't fully prepared was also something very stresfull and I am sure almost all of you know it very well (nerds won't read this part). When teacher entered the classroom I felt like teacher knew it was me who was shivering there, I almost prayed so that he or she wouldn't notice my presence in the class. I wish I were invisible, to disappear would be the best way but unfortunatelly any teleport has been invented so I had to suffer…

What about my another fear? At the age of 19 I watched movie Blair witch project – horror movie, first one of this kind, recorded by common camera, which gave it very authentic impression. In short - group of people was chased in the forest during their trip by some evil. Maybe you won't believe it but in upcoming few years I didn´t feel comfortable walking in the forest!!! If you are laughing now, better check out who is standing behind you! :-D

I grew up and suddenly I was with big belly facing fear of giving a birth. All those rumours like - friend of my friend said that her friend experienced this or that made it of course worse, so I even couldn't sleep at nights and felt like I won't survive it. Such panic controlled my mind that finally one day I realized I should start using brain, decided to attend special course for pregnant women and it helped me a lot. As you can see I survived and all this fear was in my opinion useless.

And what is my current fear? Honestly to see my parents aging isn't easy at all and I find it very sad because I am aware of the fact that they won't be here forever, so fear of their death is something what I consider very frustrating.

Sad end? Well, fear isn't anything funny so let's accept the reality and let's try to fight against it so that we all wouldn't end up one day in the madhouse.

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                                          Yours Luzzi 

When I look around in my country I can see many fat, obese people who resigned to healthy lifestyle or have never heard of it and who thanks to no movement and junk food gain day by day. In my opinion obesity started being worldwide problem and it is weird paradox that meanwhile in one part of our planet people are dying of starving, somewhere else they voluntarily decided to shorten their life by being obese.

As far as I am concerned obesity might even kill and it seems to me that many people underestimate this fact and persuade themselves that it can't happen to them. There are so many health problems obese people suffer from starting with high blood pressure and ending with heart dissease and vessel problems, so that's why we should be alert and should be able to recognize when there is high time to start fighting against fat hidden under our skin. Some people opose that obesity is dissease - well, if it is symptom of some illness then of course it is but if it is just a sign of laziness, then I won't ever understand how they can consider it dissease.

Why am I talking about this all? I personally reduced 20 kg (44 lb) one year ago because after second pregnancy I somehow got stuck, enjoyed motherhood and didn't have so much time for myself. I even almost reached the stadium of low obesity and it scared me a lot, so now you can see why I consider this topic close to me. However, I can be thankful to my smart brain, which one day turned on some alerting tone and announced: Enough!!! Unfortunately, not all people are like this because one friend of mine is more than 100 kg (220 lb) and she is  satisfied with her body.

Without doubt we live hectic life and modern life style makes everything easier and faster. Instead of walking we use cars and bikes, instead of going upstairs we use lifts and kids instead of going outside and enjoying some games like football or playing hide and seek sit in front of the computer. From above mentioned examples is obvious that we lack of movement and these who aren't able to realize it might end up as obese.

Without hesitation we can say that obesity is also one big business, which is supported by chains like McDonald, KFC or Pizza Hut and we all know they offer junk food and as for quality one doubt it too after latest affairs. If people would think more about what they eat, would try to follow healthy lifestyle, these chains would go bankrupt one day.. however, we prefer supporting them and don't care about the most important thing we have - our health.

In my opinion some people are lazy and they can make hundreds of excuses why they won't reduce their weight, which is so sad. Others are not lazy but not motivated enough, so I wish at least these people would find some energy to start and to change their lives. If we all would think properly about our lifestyle, about choosing some sport activity we would do three times a week, if we were examples for our kids, if we better went for trip instead of roaming around the mall, then obesity would slowly but certainly one day almost disappear but.. this sounds more like a fairy-tale..

To kiss mom from no reason, to make breakfast for partner, to create some toy for kid or to donate old clothes to charity - these little things essentially reflect our character and prove we have some will to warm the cockles of someone's heart (idiom = to provide happiness, warm sb's heart).

To come up with the excuse like: "I am as poor as a church mouse" (idiom = I don´t have enough money, I am poor) is just something ridiculous since for instance to pluck the flower is the question of few seconds and won't cost you anything. In my opinion it is about ideas and creativity about some inner desire to make others happy and delighted because to watch sincere smiles people give you is inexpressible reward, something what warms your heart. 

Life is about giving and taking and these who only take will sooner or later come to know that something is wrong since friends or relatives better stopped carring. If we all would realize that such little things can make somebody's day (idiom = to make somebody happy) or change their mood, that to express love like this isn't anything emberassing but just proof of our kindness and care and we shouldn´t forget about it, then life would be without any doubt more peaceful and enjoyable. From my point of view to spread the positivity, to do someone a good turn (to do someone favour, to help sb.) or to make people happy with all these little things, this all will be one day highly appreciated and by such actions we can make our life more meaningful.

So, dear friends, think long and hard (idiom = to think carefully about sth) if it is worth it to surprise people around you with some little thing because if this blog would inspire at least one of you, it would put a smile on my face (idiom = it would please me).