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Emotional bursts
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:date: 2017-10-11
:status: published
This is a reaction of mine to a post in which a father talks about an emotional burst he had when
his daughter did something nasty. He had hard times processing it, at the end turning his anguish
to a blog post. Unfortunately, the post is unavailable since then (i guess he deleted/renamed his
account on Medium), but my reply worths to be seen (in my opinion).
We have talked it over and over with my wife. Not this instance of yours of course, but the
situation you got in. We found that what you did was more than important.
Even though you write the ego is bad, sometimes it is the necessary evil. You will find times in
your life when the only way to solve a problem is using the ego. The ego has feelings, while the
spiritual doesnt (you can say that everything the spiritual feels is endless love and acceptance,
but for me it seems the Spirit doesnt *feel* it: it *is* love and acceptance).
What you did at that moment was expressing your feelings. Us, men, are usually easier to explode,
but its also easy for us to calm down. I, explode on occasions, too, but thats pretty rare.
Sometimes I get grumpy or even mad about something. But when it happens, I get back to my calm
state in seconds. My wife, on the other hand, gets angrier every moment until she becomes, with
your words, a fire breathing dragon (in Hungary, however, calling your wife a dragon is usually
considered as a terrible insult). And then she needs about the same amount of time to calm down.
The other day, our daughter was playing with plastic clay. She ended up asking her mother if she
can put it in the aquarium for the fishes. Mom said no, but she was eager to try it, making my
wife going up the hill. At the end she did put some clay in the water, exactly the same time when
my wife reached the top of her anger. She yelled at her hard while she was fishing for the pieces
of clay. And it took her a lot of time to get back to calm grounds, while she recited “honey, I
told you many times not to put anything in the water”. When she did calm down, she said to our
daughter she was sorry for yelling at her, but at that time the little girl was doing something
totally different, and probably forgot about the incident.
I dont dare saying you have to yell with your kids whenever they do something bad. If you can
get their attention, a short talk or raising your voice just a little bit is usually enough. But
if you dont practice your feelings before them, they wont learn how to do it. And trust me, a
kid without all the social skills is more than miserable.

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On weird kids
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:date: 2019-11-03T08:28Z
Are you in school? Then most probably there's a classmate of yours who is looked down by everyone
because of different behaviour, clothing, or whatever. Give them a smile! Not to flirt or
anything like that, just to assure them you care about their existence. It may mean a lot to
them. Trust me, I was in the role of the “weird kid” before. Same applies to workplaces, or
basically any community.
After giving up the typical “weird kid noone loves” role, I made several friends this way. In the
process I became the “weird guy everyone wants to know”; well, everyone who is fed up with their
“normal” state.

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Why many people dont know how to lead a happy life
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:date: 2015-08-12T13:34Z
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We read about such success stories all the time: people on top of successful companies tell us how
to be successful both in their job and in their private life. These people are usually in their
40s or 50s and, for some strange reason, they all dropped off of school around their late teen
years. If you ask me, there are many problems with such stories.
Education is important. Now dont get me wrong, I dont say these people are under-educated, they
are indeed intelligent people. I dont even say you cant be successful today if you drop off
from school. Still, as I hear the reactions of some teens to such stories, they really consider
leaving school to start their own business. Problem is, in this business-led world of ours,
starting your own company without being funded by one of the bigger ones is almost hopeless. And
there is one more thing to be considered here: not everyone want to become the owner of a top
company, why should they follow these “rules”?
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I was pretty good at school, I could be in the “middle class” even if I refused to learn extra at
home (quick fact: Hungarian schools didnt keep their students in the classrooms after 2pm in my
time, but gave a fair amount of homework). However, I got very lazy after high school and didnt
finish university; to be honest, I didnt complete half of it. And guess what: I still dont have
my own business, yet I lead a happy life.
After reading `this story of Richard Banson <https://medium.com/p/284adfa6f6c1/>`_ from Vikas Jha,
I started thinking. What can people do if they want to live a happy life? Well, you should just
listen to these advises. If you skip the first two paragraphs, you get pretty good ideas on how
to do it, the most important being “love what you do & do what you love”. Lets rephrase it a
bit:
“Find out what you like, and do it with passion.”
As I see, the real problem of todays young people is that, except a few of them, they hardly know
what they want to do with their lives.