Survival in the playground

I’ve been thinking. There are so many things that influence your life, so there are a million different ways to life it. It’s all a matter of significance, what has a priority in you life and what things are forgetable.

What do you think controls your life? What standards do you have?

I think joy dominates my life. I want to have fun, I want to live.
Most of my friends care about their social status, they wear the clothes the media dictats on us, they are all subscribed to the same magazine and will even fail a subject just because it’s nog cool to attend gym class (imagine having to get sweaty for school *gasp*) .

I don’t envy them, they miss all the fun things in life, that make you forget the world for a while. Lying in the grass in the park watching a ladybug walk over your hand, skipping down the street, wearing a top hat in public.

But then i start thinking, isn’t it a bit selfish to want to enjoy life? when so many other people in the world are suffering. I try to help, i donate 2 hourse of work every month to greenpeace, volunteer at dierproefvrij, write for amnesty and last years christmas money went to pakistan. I know this won’t help much but it’s something. But at the same time we have the luxury to be able to forget the world at moments, to be carefree for a little while. Wouldn’t it be conflicting to waste those moments? So i think we shouldn’t let the guilt controle our lifes. We should enjoy life and forget the world every ones in a while. Only so we can appreciate what we have and try to help others achieve their care free moments.
Now lets all enjoy life and skip to the mailbox to donate all the money we can spare.