Do you know MC Escher's Lithograph "Drawing hands":
http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW355.jpg ?

I've put this picture on the wall in my desk to remind me to keep practicing
a "healthy thinking" attitude. It is like pulling yourself up by your
bootstraps ("bootstrapping"). For me, this Lithograph is a very nice
visualization of a positive self-reference.

People with a healthy mindset believe that they can do the same like the
drawing: starting from almost nothing building up an increasingly happy and
healthy life. And just by accepting this very axiom, they actually proof to
themselves that this is possible, every day more and more.

People with a destructive mindset can be illustrated by the same drawing,
*except that the pencil is replaced by an eraser*. They walk the opposite
way: they have a happy life, but they erase it themselves by negative
thoughts, catastrophic thinking, pessimism etc...

ikke

ikke benne een belg nie, ikke woon in Suid Afrika ;-)

Stop that. What is it?

lol tis in dutch, i can just bout read it, but no way can i write, only
cos i watched galaxy quest with dutch subtitles to many times hehe.
C.

Very close, but this was no standard Dutch: someone asked me whether I'm
from Belgium and I replied by joking that I'm from South Africa where they
speak some kind of Dutch , the same kind of 'funny' Dutch as my dialect
alias "ikke"
:-)

To put things right: I'm indeed from Belgium .

ikke

hehee okies, it was dutch enuff to read anyhow
C

It could be worse, you could be from Barnsley.

Zorg

Barnsley thats heaven compared to Luton

Lawrence