Hello
This is the start of something special.
Well, that´s what I think anyway. Time will tell. This might just fizzle out – but I don´t think so, my last blog lasted ages and I only dumped it because time became too tight to continue and it felt like a lot of baggage – all those old posts. So many typos and things that looked like spelling errors but weren´t really.
This is the new zhisou.
No baggage, a new vibrant fellow ready for 2008 and all it has to throw at me.
2007 was a tough old bastard of a year, as was 2006 – but it seemed more hopeful, though chiefly because I thought 2007 was going to be the one. The logic was mainly based on the numerological luck of the number 7.
That wasn´t a sound logical argument really. I don´t believe in luck except good luck, and only then as a tool to keep my chin up. I am convinced that I am not a lucky person but don´t want to make that a self-fulfilling prophesy, so I make sure I look around me and count my blessings. I have even found that I am able to see the bigger picture and thank my lucky stars that I am not in Darfur or some such place when little things go wrong like I lose my keys or I lose tens of thousands of Euros.
This is a remarkable achievement. That old line about the starving in Africa who´d be grateful for my tasteless tough vegetables actually resonates with a ping of solid truth! That is lucky, although it´s easy to become a tiresome high-horser when you have such a lofty holistic perspective. I still don´t eat my vegetables – but now I feel bad about it.
I have to tone it down it real life – I have to try and be normal. That´s a drag, but if I didn´t I´d even annoy myself.
