Aidonian's blog

It has shown us that capitalism is essential morally bankrupt, and they don’t hide it anymore. Putting people in dangerous situations just to make a profit and afterwards using the pandemic to lay people off to safeguard their profits is a sign of a morally bankrupt system.The US president Donald Trump has shown that. He is the symbol of the economic system. His actions during the pandemic has cost more than 200.000 American lives. He values the stock market more than he does human lives. Not just him, the whole Republican party is also to blame here. Helping out busisness, but failing to help out ordinary people when they needed it the most. 

In Belgium we had a political crisis that it lasted until the end of September to have a federal government in place. The provisional  government didn’t work like it should be. From the start with the first lockdown I knew that winter would be problematic. Turns out I was right.To be fair, if you thought about back then, you knew it wasn\”t going to be over by winter. Holidays were a real problem, that we couldn’t celebrate it as normal. This was hard. For everyone. These are though times.  We are still not in the clear though. Vaccination has begun, but until 11 million people are vaccinated, it will take some doing. Even then, we should still be cautious, because it is unknown at this point how long the vaccin actually works. 

But we have a vaccine, we have some medicine that works against Covid. If we learn from this, we could prevent another’s outbreak.The thing is, I’m not that hopeful about it. The economic system as it is, will try to go back to normal as soon as possible. But normal is what lead to this situation.

on a personal level. This year was hard. I didn’t get to see friends for a long time. Some of them I still haven’t seen in almost a year. I get why. I don’t blame them. 

At work, I lost couple of a good co-workers. I will miss them. For one person it was due to health reasons, the other one, was that a new career opportunity presented itself and took it. 

If you can improve yourself, you should do it. It’s hard and difficult, but in the end, it could lead to better things, one should take it. 

The one positive note about this year is that I was able to run again. I had trained hard for my lower back muscles and my core muscles so I could run. I had to do stretch exercises so I could continue to run without pain. It worked. I’m happy that I can do it again. Training with MSA has thought me a lot about workouts and whatnot.it ladende realize that jogging is more about using your legs, but it’s a full body work out, more or less. 

This summer I had to say good bye to my beloved cat Simba. After 4 years I had to give her up to Thanatos, because her time was up. The disease FIP took her from me.it was something that caused me a lot of grief. I did love her and did everything I could, but I was helpless and powerless against it. At least she had four good years with me, being spoiled with treats and toys and food. This was by no means a fun experience to say the least. When the second lockdown came, I didn\”t have any companionship. At first I wanted to adopt a dog, but with my hours, me being away from home alot: training 2-3 times a week at night, school one night a week, that dog was going to be alone alot. So i did have to take that into consideration if a dog (no matter how much I love dogs, and cats) is a right pet for me now. Its going to be alone for a long time during the day. I don\”t know if a dog is suited for me. Benefit of having a cat is, that they can hunt spiders. I have seen some big ones at the end of the summer, that i was like: yikes. brrr. Not my cup of tea.