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Overview

  • 6 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Student
  • Uni
  • From Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Ride the wave

ABOUT ME

Passionate world citizen

PHILOSOPHY

desiderata - by max ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann c.1920

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, spreading the love

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Since my OLD roommate got a CSprofile some years ago I effectively became a co-host, met a lot of beautyfull people, anD got my own profile to get on this train

Interests

Languages, Cultures, Love

  • exercise
  • surfing
  • business
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Yes please, and loads of it! Right now enjoying the peacefull sounds of Xavier Rudd, Devendra Banhart, Andrew Bird, always up for a wide range of new genuine tunes!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Untamed isolated nature @ Scottish atlantic coast

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