Games of Knowledge

knowledge | March 10, 2010

Travelling can be a very soothing experience. My guess is that it is being far from one’s typical environment that provides the greatest thrill.

When you travel don’t make the mistake of trying to buy everything you eat on the way. Rather take pre-cooked food with you that includes snacks and a meal or two to have on the way. You can store this anywhere, even in home storage boxes. The good thing about this is that you can have a picnic on the way as you rest. You will also be able to save money that can be spent on buying souvenirs.

Entertainment on the way is very important. Children can become very irritable when they aren’t entertained enough. Carry with you enough music which everyone likes and you will have sound to fill the occasional silence. The value of such songs will only be seen when you’re much older and you hear such songs being played on the radio.

If you want to make sure that you enjoy travelling you can make an arrangement to travel as a bunch, family and friends. This is great especially if all the families involved have children. Your children can travel in one car and some parents in another. By so doing you never make the mistake of talking about the wrong things around children huddled together in the back seat.

Have maps when you travel. This might seem like it is unnecessary but it provides for good entertainment. When you travel to far away places you can stop over to check how much progress you have made. You might think this is boring for children but you’ll be surprised to find your child asking for the map to see how far you have travelled. If you have a baby, take breaks to stretch your body and maybe even give the baby a baby bath as the baby will feel fresher after a long journey sitting in a baby car seat.

Record your experiences with a camcorder or camera. This is always a fun thing to do especially if you transfer the footage to cd and play it later when you get home. Give each other turns to record footage and also remember to bring enough memory cards with you so that you never run out of storage space.

If you take a newborn with you make sure you have all the things you need. Take diapers; the britax car seat; medication and anything else your baby will need. The reason for this is that there are areas of the countryside where you won’t find a single shop or clinic for miles on end.

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knowledge | March 10, 2010

People who have never tasted alcohol did themselves the biggest favor of the century. I sometimes think I should never have started drinking because stopping has been such a difficulty for years. But with time I managed to quit my habit and enforce a new personality. To be able to do this too I have a little bit of advice you might find useful.

The company you share with contributes a great deal to how well you cope with the new transition. The friends I had hardly thought twice about spending a huge sum of money on alcohol within hours. Secretly I realized that this was going to be my downfall because I saw nothing wrong with our condition because we were always together.

After I started living on my own it became easier to control myself and not make decisions based on the general feeling and perception. From this view point I was able to see the sort of person I had become because in the thick of things I was not able to see my downfall because, since we were all similar, it didn’t seem like there was anything wrong. But seeing what I had become in the peace of my new home I eventually managed to control my alcohol intake.

There is no real point in trying to quit alcohol when you don’t have anything to replace it with. This is about finding an alternative activity to replace your alcohol addiction so that you have your thoughts occupied. What I did was buff up the entertainment in my flat by getting video and board games as well as a left handed electric guitar. So when I thought of drinking I would drink at home and I would not even think about abusing alcohol, it was fun.

Sometimes people who are addicted to alcohol are abusing it because they will be trying to fill an empty void in their life. The empty void in my life had suddenly become not having friends that shared the same mindset as mine. So I sought to make sure that I surrounded myself with people who thought like I did. And even though I wasn’t anticipating having a girlfriend I eventually met a woman who represented all that and more. It is more like sorting your clothes in the home storage shelves if you want to enjoy wearing new clothes.

Alcoholics are usually slim and underfed. But there are others that are well fed, but this is rare. The point I’m trying to stress here is that of eating more food and taking care of ones body. I realized how I cut down on my intake of alcohol when I noticed how much I was missing out on by drinking instead of eating more. This is good replacement therapy but it must be done in moderation.

Anyone with an addiction problem can get over it if they focus for long enough to see themselves changing. Just never give up and lose sight of your goal whatever you do. Be sure to suck the power out of your addiction like a dyson upright vacuum cleaner would suck out dirt form carpet.

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