Thoughts, Notepads

Yesterday was a really neat day. It put my mind into some new perspectives that I have never thought about before. Yet my mind is still wondering about certain things. Chambery like many cities has several beggars that come and go and several that are just standard. Sometimes I run into them on a daily basis. On one hand my heart is split on this issue. I can either give them money or not. I have decided to not give them money but I needed to know why. I have determined that the more of them that you give money the more of the habit you produce. A better option would be to give them food if you want to give them anything. At least you know that they the choice is now in their hands to eat it or not. Anyway it is a strange concept to think about but I ran into one yesterday that really made me think about it. There must be a better way than just begging for money.

Afterwards I wandered my way into a free art exposition. When I entered the exposition they asked if I spoke English I said oui and continued in French. Sometimes people try to force me into English when I don't speak perfect French but now I just plow past that and continue in French because that's is why I'm here.

After I looked at all the pictures I got a chance to talk to the artist and photographer, a mother son team. It turned out that this time the son actually didn't speak very much French so English was the better option. They were from Romania and I got to hear some interesting perspectives on life, love and war and things in between. It was a nice conversation overall and lasted for at least and hour. Overall it was a great experience and it was nice to listen to the perspective of the world from a Romanian point of view. He also commented that I had a good energy which was neat because people haven't typically said that to me in the past.

Today I have continued my new daily routine of more massive walks. It have me some more time to think, which I have had plenty of time to do so far. Yet I need to put more actions into these thoughts because there is only so much, and so much more than we realize, that thinking can produce. I'm starting a checklist of things that I need to get done each day and getting those things done. I general I have started writing down thoughts that I come up with on an daily (hourly?) basis and it is helping keeping me more organized. I would recommend that to always carry a pen and notepad around. Why I never started this earlier, who knows. It is simple, and simply worth it.