I only work in theory
‘E questo è il fiore del partigiano, morto per la libertà’
I have rediscovered yoga in the past week and I incorporated yoga into my morning routine. For 10-15 minutes each morning, I will do some exercises. It’s a fun way of waking up, stretching and taking a moment for myself each day. And the cold showers afterwards is a bit more enjoyable this way.
I’ve been doing body weight exercises the entire week. I’m not going to the gym as often as I did and I feel like finding a new balance in my workout regime. Working out, maintaining strength and agility and eating healthy is currently winning the race from growing bigger in the gym. I don’t know if it’s the warmer weather or a slight mental crash I’ve endured for the past week or two, but it’s good to take some time to reflect.
I’m doing okay. I sometimes have some mental struggles where I get very negative or anxious for a while, and I can’t enjoy life in these moments. But overall I have to remind me that I’m okay, life is okay and things are going well.
I have one month left at my current job before I start my new job at the union. I’m really looking forward to it. Before I start I have a 3 week holiday of which I will spent most of the time abroad. We’re probably heading to Sweden to do some road tripping. My gf’s father bought a piece of land there in the middle of nowhere just last week and it would be nice to see it, if possible. The alternative is the Gironde area in France, if weather in Sweden would suck. Eitherway I’m looking forward to some time off.
A while ago Belgium’s biggest supermarket chain, who has been in fights with their employees for months now, issued a ban on striking which effectively put their workers in a stranglehold.
The Union (my future employer, yay,) has fought this ban in each State and judges in the first one agreed with them, effectively reversing the ban on striking. This is a huge win for the workers ✊🏼 but the fight is not over yet.
In a rare moment of honesty, Dutch media are now reporting that the Americans knew that Ukraine was going to blow up Nord Stream. Well, honesty is not really accurate. They are blaming a rogue Ukrainian force and the US and Zelensky couldn’t do anything. But at least Russia is not in the wrong according to them.
China does.
I’m kidding, but bumping your post as I had someone explain it to me in the hope that they see it. @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml was it you maybe?
Western people see it mostly as a form of exercise and maybe, for people more involved, as a breathing method to keep composure and stay calm. The goal of yoga itsel is much broader though, as it aims to help you reach Self Realisation. Now, that’s where the interpretation of the practice comes in place.
To get some positive but very local news: Antwerp’s chapter of our party had two good victories this week!
We managed, through action, to keep a bus line in the city running.
We also, after two years of action, managed to ban a new, elite Maritime Campus high rise from being build in one of the city’s green areas.
This was all done through campaigning, petitions, visits to people living in the area etc.
Yes but have you considered doing something extra hurts their profits and that’s bad?
My gf and I are toying with the idea of saving some money, selling everything we have and go on a trip of a year or maybe longer. Travel, see the world, discover ourselves in other settings. That, or we want to buy a plot of land to become more self sufficient in our living, so that we can work less since we provide for our own stuff.
When I tell people this, they automatically ask me: ‘what about work?’. As if that’s the only thing I’m supposed to do.
New polls have our marxist party as the fourth largest in Flanders and third largest in Wallonia. We’re also the only party still growing with the rest decreasing in popularity. And we ain’t stopping bby