Future is now!

Yes, i started my blog with a title that was also the theme of a World Jamboree. And it was the one that was in Holland in 1995. I really like that theme, because it's true.. What's happening now is important for in the future. And so are we, the youth, because we are the next leaders of the countries that will have to build peace and to care about our parents..

i've just read Ida's blog and i really must say she's right...
It's so nice to travel, but most of the times it only stays with dreaming.

In my case not about Spain, but so many others..
and sometimes even Spain and France, like right now hahaha
I wished future came something faster.

I would like to have a timemachine, for just travelling to nice times in the past or to the future for being so independent and make my dreams come true :)

Travelling in the past...
to the time i was able to hug my Grandad
to the WSJ2007
to the time i was in Sweden
to the time in my old house, i note that i'm forgetting what it looked like from inside!! And although i now live on the other side of the street i would like to see it again how it was when i was the little Marloes. The blond girl who really thought Switzerland was next to Sweden...
to the time that life was so easy and you were so little that you couldn't really see all the bad things in the world
to the time that Sinterklaas really existed

But my age now has positive things too..
I'm having great and real friends
I'm discovering the world, by learning at school but also by realizing how big it is and how different things, cultures, and countries can be. "Near" (like Sweden) and far away (like Africa).
I'm realizing the world i live in and it's only becoming bigger and bigger.. Sweden is no longer the neighbour of Switzerland and in Luxembourg aren't all people rich (because they could buy luxe things, because they were living in LUXEmbourg)
I feel like i'm living and i'm finding out what it is like to be human and to live in this world, with all responsibilities and nice things
And most of all i'm discovering myself. I feel like i'm becoming the woman i will be for the rest of my life. I'm forming my opinions about things and i'm taught how to be a good and responsible citizen of the world (like i see it.. not a good citizen of only Holland). And with discovering your life and opinions are the negative things. For example that not everybody shares your opinion. In small things, you don't all think the same boy is hot, and in big things, about people with other cultures, traditions and religions who live in Holland. It's all part of it!

But the most beautiful thing is that i have found my real friends. The ones that respect me in all.. I didn't believe my parents last year that friendships from that moment would go over and that you would find the ones for the rest of your life in later times, in the second part of secondary school, in which i'm now. I didn't believe it, my class was too nice and how could i ever lose Laura who was my best friend??
But they were right.. At the end of that year i found better friends and, really, i lost Laura. She's not more than somebody i know well and with whom i can talk sometimes. I still can talk better with her than with some other people, but a real friend she isn't any more.
My class with which i have Dutch, English, gymnastics and societystudies (V4C) IS nicer than the other one (VG3A) and i have my real friends...

And positive things of the future, i'm not going to mention because you will know them yourself.. Freedom, responsibility, money, independence... they all have a black side too. And they are teaching us NOW how to use it, by giving us more and more and by letting you discover your way of thinking and being. And of course we will discover the bad things of them, and we are already doing that sometimes, but the most important thing for then is that you will have those friends you're making now and that you will have a nice time to look back at.

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends, <3 Marloes