Take 1: The End of Our (Boring) World

2012 ! TADADADÀÀÀM....

I hear more and more young people around me talk about this infamous – or famous – date of December 21st 2012. WOW, THAT IS GREAT. YOU KNOW WHY???

Whether YOU believe it is “the end of the world” or whether YOU believe it is “the beginning of Something New”, at least something SPECTACULAR is going to happen on our BORING planet run by ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS. It is always the sàààme òòòld stuff we hear in – what they call – “the news”. ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS talking endlessly about the latest natural disaster, about the latest killings, the latest scandals and who is going to win the Oscar, the ball game or the war…

Now, apparently in December 2012, we are finally in for SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

OR there will be NO MORE morning news at all OR the morning news will be about a new epoch of BRILLIANT developments and WONDERFUL happenings on our planet …

TADADADÀÀÀM...

Hi, my name is HANSTEIN and I am a QUANTUM PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER - will explain later, for now, let’s say that it’s a specialist of juggling a wide variety of balls AND a wide variety of NEW IDEAS.

Let me say this one more time (after running towards YOU, flipping the ball over my head – that move is called THE RAINBOW - and a little bit of juggling) :

 

You just heard my sad list of reasons why one could give up hope for the planet. And I could have made this list much longer… however the GOOD NEWS is that WE LIVE IN A VERY SPECIAL TIME…!

I don’t know what you got out of your history classes, but have you noticed that EVERY EPOCH in the whole history of our planet has been filled with WARFARE & MISERY.

Yes, right now it looks like we are even in a BIGGER MESS as ever before, however due to our fast changing digital world, THE WORLD HAS BECOME AN OPEN BOOK. We can now ALL know what is happening anywhere. We can now ALL be connected, hear about new ideas, create networks, exchange with people all over the world.

This is all possible now FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

Many PROMISING ORGANISATIONS have been launched in the last few years, but you hardly hear about them in “the news”. I will mention many of these INSPIRING INITIATIVES in these web blogs. So stick around. There is not only HOPE; there is lots of EXCITEMENT coming up.

-If YOU believe it will be “the beginning of Something New” in 2012, check out these blogs & clips too. YOU AND I AGREE. However “Something New” is pretty vague, isn’t it? This and all following blogs & clips are about trying out NEW IDEAS right TODAY. I respect those Mayas who pointed at Dec. 21st 2012 as the end of their calendar a lot. Some of them must have been REALLY WISE. However I have read that the exact date, December 21st 2012 might be a little off. BUT WHO CARES – what can we do; stay inside in bed with our head under our pillow until that day? NO WAY; we don’t have to wait and talk endlessly about WHEN we think WHAT is going to happen. As I just said; we are starting Something New right TODAY!

-If YOU have never given it much thought….. HELLÒÒÒ, WAKE ÙÙÙP, it is about time you do!  There is so much going on in our world that is out of hand. Maybe you are used to see all that warfare & misery in “the news”. Maybe you happen to live in a relatively peaceful country, but even then, don’t you find that there seems to be a whole lot of UNHAPPINESS & UNFAIRNESS going on around you? And isn’t it bizarre that those ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS (will explain in next blogs how come they “live” there) seem to take all that for granted?

Maybe you do find the world often CRAZY, but you just don’t believe in any Maya date! Is that so? GREAT! Welcome aboard! Join us in creating the “END OF THE WORLD”; the world as we know it!

So TADADADÀÀÀM, all you Doom Thinkers & Something New Believers & Crazy World Youngsters…. LET’S GET STARTED !

BUT WHERE?



There is a long list of things that need to change on this planet, but WE HAVE TO START WITH OURSELVES & THE WORLD AROUND US.

Let me suggest you an exciting FIRST CHANGE. This may surprise you at first sight, but let me explain.

I have observed many young people in the last 30 years in their daily lives and noticed that most of you find much in your daily lives REALLY BORING. Many, many young people have told me that they are most of the time BORED at school or at work. Of course we are talking in general here. There can be exciting moments or interesting periods in your daily life and fortunately there are some INSPIRING ADULTS around. However in general YOU don’t seem to have much choice, but to follow what ADULTS WHO LIVE IN THEIR HEADS (parents, teachers, coaches, bosses, administrators) have planned out for you, in order for YOU TO BECOME LIKE THEM.

Who wakes up in the morning thinking “YES, SCHOOL TODAY” or “YES, WORK TODAY!”

AND WHY NOT? Why isn’t it possible to create schools and jobs that are NOT boring most of the time? Why can’t we have a daily life that REALLY motivates us? How can any of the world’s large problems ever change if most people live WITHOUT TRUE MOTIVATION? So, let’s put BOREDOM on top of that list of “things out of hand” on this planet. And let’s start doing something about that RIGHT AWAY.

Here is an idea. Who decided that as kids we are allowed to PLAY and then when we grow older we are NO MORE ALLOWED TO PLAY. Who decided that we can play in our – way too little – “free time”, but that PLAY or having A PLAYFUL ATTITUDE is not welcome in educational and working situations?

Check out this great slight show by the National Institute for Play. They explain that if people (YOUNG AND OLD) would PLAY, in many domains of life, they LEARN BETTER, WORK BETTER & FUNCTION BETTER IN GENERAL :

IMPORTANT, watch the complete introduction

INTRODUCTION TO THE INSTITUTE FOR PLAY

So here is the first piece of the puzzle to start Something New; find your own ways to PLAY in your daily life or if you already do; PLAY EVEN MORE. Start TODAY and don’t EVER have ANYBODY make you believe that at one point you have to stop playing. .

Then send this clip to ALL ADULTS AROUND YOU; your parents, your teachers, uncles & aunts and so on. You know what? Send this clip to all your friends so they can also send it to the adults around them. Don't forget to tell them to watch the entire introduction. Don't skip it.

What is so special about the National Institute for Play is that they show that it has been SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN that PLAY IS AS IMPORTANT AS NUTRITION AND SLEEP.

Adults need to hear that. They live most of the time IN THEIR HEADS. Their thinking goes ON & ON & ON. On top of that, in their thoughts they believe they are ALWAYS RIGHT. Unless it is....... SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN!

Ouch, I guess that adults are not always right after all… thinking that PLAY is only for kids… WRONG !

And thinking that learning and working with a PLAYFUL ATTITUDE is not productive… WRONG AGAIN !

The next blogs and video clips will be filled with other tips and suggestions you can DIRECTLY TRY OUT IN YOUR OWN LIFE:

-about how YOU can avoid LIVING IN YOUR HEAD like many ADULTS do,

-about EDUCATION and about what to do if you find your school boring,

-about SPORTS and how to play like A STAR at whatever level you are,

-about ARTS and about the many ways to fill your life with CREATIVITY,

-about finding your PASSION and becoming lifelong friends with it,

-about healthy FOOD and how you can still enjoy some JUNK,

-about FAMILY and about what to do if you don’t have a nice one,

-about how to nourish FRIENDSHIPS and about how to “un-friend” at times,

-about SEX and about what nobody seems to want to talk about,

-about TAKING CARE of yourself and then of OTHERS and THE PLANET.

-and about LOTS MORE.

TODAY we start with PLAY (even more) as a first step to CHANGE OUR WORLD. We don’t need the Mayas telling us when it is all going to end or start. We are ALREADY ENDING & STARTING it right now, step by step.

Peace Out!

HANSTEIN

This series of blogs is a preview of a book I am planning to write. It is just a warming up! You could read each “TAKE” separately (they are all inter-connected), but there is a certain build up in the presentations of the topics. However – as is the title of TAKE 2 – everything is relative; so if you happen to start at a later TAKE, well… that is OK also. I do hope you end up reading them all, but not in one shot though! We don’t want these ideas to only go IN YOUR HEAD. We know what kind of a world we get then…!

Please, feel FREE to share your CREATIVE COMMENTS with me and all readers.  

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