Marieke started thinking and that is where it all went wrong

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

The world will never get as pretty as it is in your imagination. But the world is the world. We have to accept it, because I don’t see us moving to Mars anytime soon. We have to accept the volcanoes, the tsunamis and the snowstorms. We have to accept the differences between us, because that is how we have evolved from beings with tails. I don’t believe in God, but I do believe that if we all keep our hopes up, our hearts in the right place, our minds open and our eyes focused on happiness, we will each reach our own type of heaven. Let your mind wander to that stage after death, let it ponder the possibilities because that is what imagination is all about. The realization of our dreams. Even if it’s just in our heads, our hearts will believe it and in the end it will come true.

Other then living in my own little Marieke universe, I did something else this weekend. I baked. Which is not that shocking, because I like baking. Somehow I consider the fact that I can create lovely cookies from just a few ingredients, some handpicked berries and a little heart shaped cookie cutter pure magic. I guess I am at seventeen not as grownup is I like to believe.

I made what they in England call Jammie Dodgers, only heart shaped and with homemade raspberry jam peeping through the little hole. Picture? Nahhaah, they were literally swallowed down by my ‘’little’’ brother (He gulps down a box of cereal a day...), so I never even got the chance to take a proper blog picture of them. You know all colourful, edited with my name fancy down in the corner because god forbid someone used one of my pictures and wasn’t capable of cutting of my signature! Mine are grey and slightly unfocused and they’ll probably will be until I get myself a proper camera, so feel free to use them wherever and whenever you like. As long as you don’t blame the quality on me.