March 27 #howtobehappy2015 Which is worse, failing or never trying?

Right of the top of my brain I would say: FAILING. I had/have (still) such bad stage fight. Like literally being in front of a group of people: telling them something, or singing, or having to make certain standards, it scares the heck out of me.

But than again.. I also had soo much experience where I didn't do something because I was so scared.. and it turned out to be such a stupid decision..

I think my answer is going to be that never trying is worse, and that's what people say, don't they? You fail anyway if you never try..

Here are some quotes to prove that a lot of people feel very strongly about this:

"You never fail, until you stop trying." - Albert Einstein

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, it is in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

This is a good one:

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert H. Schuller

And I'm going to end with my favorite quote.. I don't know why this is my favorite.. it just has a nice feel to it. And it sounds really true.

"Ever tried? Ever fail? Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
(Isn't that an amazing quote?!)

That is a good question though, isn't it? "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" Because what would you do, if you were guaranteed not to fail. I already know somethings that I would have done earlier, if I had that guarantee.


(All the quotes are from BrainyQuote)

February 17 #howtobehappy2015 How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

That's the question for this week.. how old would I be if I didn't know how old I was..
And that quite frankly really interesting. Because I don't feel my age. And I'm not saying this to be cool or anything. But I just think that a lot has happened in my life so far that's not your average, I don't know, life, I guess.. I'm 21 now. I turned 21 the 15th of November.

The question is now of course.. what does define your age? Is it how you act .. or what you've experienced in life.. or what you've taken from those experiences .. ?

My boyfriend is 28, but talk a lot about how he still feels 23.. and how he would like to remain that age, although he is (sadly for him maybe) getting closer and closer to 30 everyday.. But is it really a number that defines you. Because I know people of 70 would can barely move and people who are 70 that still cycle 50 km every weekend.. So what defines your mental and physical age?
Because there is a difference as well.. I'm not a really sporty person, not at all actually.. so physically I wouldn't be much older, I guess..

I have this kind of .. I like to refer to is as 'complex' .. that when I'm in a room full of people who are roughly the same age as me, I instantly feel like I'm the youngest. I just automatically assume this. It's because of reasons that I'm not going into right now. But it's weird, isn't it? 
It actually happened. I was somewhere and we were like kind of getting to know each other and I, as I said, assume that I was the youngest (I was 18 at the time) and I was actually older than like 10 of the girls..
And I still think I'm younger than a few of them.. and now I look back, I think that is just attitude. 
Because when I was in that situation I wasn't going to talk about, people a little older than me would always tell me: 'Ohh, but you are only this-and-this age..' or 'Hannah is too young for this stuff.' And I felt older than my age said at that time.. And I was like: I have more life experience than some of you here. I could tell you stuff that would turn your precious little hearts up side down. (Okay, not soft serving here.. sorry bit dramatic ;) but hey, you get the gist)

These are interesting things to thing about, people.. What do you think? Have you any suggestions as to what could differentiate(is that eve a word?) your mental age from your actual age?

I think I'm going to settle on a sold 36 for the over all age.. if I was single/in a relationship (which I am, the last one) if I was to be married I would be older.. I think.. But that's for a whole other day.

Good thinking, guys.

Hannah

50 questions that will free your mind ! #howtobehappyin2015 -INTRODUCTION-

Hello people of the world,

I, Hannah, will be answering 50 questions over the next 2 months or so. I will do 1 question a day, maybe sometimes I'll think about it a little longer.
I'm not going to show you the questions, (spoiler alert: you can google them), I, myself, only read through them briefly.
I'll start with the first question today. This will be my new project for this blog.
Let's see what I'll win from this:)

I'm trying from now on to focus, on being more of me that I can be, more of the child of God that I can be, to be happier, the more I can be. I'm going to focus and challenge myself on being the better girlfriend for Michiel, to be a better friend for people around me, being a better aupair, being a better daughter to my mom and dad, to be a better sister to my sisters.
I'm not saying, I'm not good. I'm not saying I'm not all that, because of course my parents will say: 'Oh, but honey, you are already the best you can be. We love you as you are.' (Thank mom & dad, I love you too:))
But that's not exactly what I mean. I just want to challenge myself to be more loving, inspiring.

And these questions seems intersting enough to make me start thinking more about life in general.

I don't know if this makes any scense to anyone, it doesn't exactly to me .. yet..
But yes. that's my rambling for now.

Love,
Hannah