Inspiration for blogging? Why not get it from other blogs?

I don't know if many of you did this, but I added all your blogs to my reading list on blogger. I did this simply because I'm interested in what you are blogging about, and also to get some ideas if we have to write a post about something special and I don't know what to say about it. ;) Anyway, I just read this one blog post from Güliz Deniz and thought "Wow, that sounds really cool!".
She started a challenge she found on another blog and as I really like the content I think I will try that as well.
^^Sorry for stealing your idea, but as you might know copying is a form of admiration, so, see it as a compliment. ;)

The challenge is as follows:

Make a List of: things you know to be true

Make a List of: things that make you angry

Make a List of: the most unusual things you do every day

Make a List of: things you no longer believe

Make a List of: things you should have learned by now

Write Poetry: with “I remember sentences

Write Poetry: about your heart—not what it does or who it loves, but the odd and weird stuff it is made of

Write: a love poem … for a non traditional item or person

I have to admit that I never tried to write poetry, so maybe I will alter the last three points, but I will definitely try it first. You'll find the outcome on my blog. Next thing I don't know is if will find the time to finish the list in eight days, but I will try my best to do so. 

Well, now that everything is explained I'd better get started. There we go.

Make a list of things you know to be true:

Things that are true are of course the visible/touchable things, but let's talk about the things that are not visible but true nevertheless.

One very important thing is LOVE. I know, I know, not very creative. But still. 

I will not talk about the love between two people because I was not particularly lucky with that and this would become a very negative statement. But the love of a family is worth so much. I don't know how I would ever be able to live a happy life without my family, because even if everyone else fails you they're somehow obliged to stay with you. Of course this is not true for all families, but I am happy to be able to say that I can fully rely on mine. Thank god for that. The same thing works for friends as well, by the way. ;)

What also counts is the love of an animal. We have a family-dog, Boris:

He just gives so much love. Even when you're all miserable and angry when you come home, he's there, wiggling his tail, utterly happy that you finally returned. A dog is the only creature that loves you absolutely unconditionally and expects nothing in return. Maybe their only reason to be on earth is to give happiness. 

Whenever I am in Graz I miss Boris terribly, and whenever I am at home I am unbelievingly happy that I have him around again. 

He is able to make me feel loved and appreciated by his sheer presence, and I honestly don't know anyone else capable of this.

Well, I will continue with the fact that BOOKS CONTAIN POWER. 

From a very young age on I loved reading. I always wanted books for my birthdays and christmas and whenever else you get presents. Luckily, my family supported this and I barely ever ran out of books to read. This love for books still continues today even though I don't have enough time to read any more. At the moment I am stuck with Game of Thrones II, not because I don't like it or because it's hard to read or something like that, simply because I don't have enough time to read. And once I would be able to spare an hour or so I am too exhausted from uni and homework and I want nothing but to turn off my brain and relax a little bit. 

Anyway, it is a fact that, if you're able to get involved in the story, a book can help you to escape your own world and enter a complete new one with new people and new possibilities. 

For me this saying is more than true. If you find complete new creatures or landscapes or physical laws in a book, isn't it a kind of magic that one person was able to make that up? Simply by his/her imagination? 

If that isn't magic I don't know what is.

Have you ever closed a book after the last sentence, feeling sad that the story doesn't continue and with the feeling that you lost a friend? I certainly have. Once you're not able to give it out of your hands anymore, once you suffer with the characters, once you have to laugh or cry, a book is a good book.

But even books that are not literature have power, it's just of a different kind. A scientific book can open one's eyes for something new, for a truth that he couldn't accept beforehand, simply by explaining everything in a logical way. 

The written word is something incredibly powerful. However, it does have a very strong weakness: people have to choose to read them to give them the possibility to wield their power. Nevertheless, once they get the chance to do so their true power looms up. They can rouse people out of their apathy, they can stimulate new behaviour or a change in attitude and so much more. Why else would regimes have burned books in former times? 

Well, at the moment I can't think of anything else, so I'll leave it with that! :)