Give it away!

Ik doe mee aan de November - geefmaand. Een initiatief van Mirjamdownunder en de Verdubbeldame. In november iedere dag iets weggeven. Aandacht, tijd, een kadootje, wat er maar weg te geven valt. Ik ben niet alleen, we zijn de vijftig deelnemers al gepasseerd.  Onze ervaringen vind je op geefmaand.com. Ik hoop de komende tijd hier ook het een en ander te vertellen over mijn ervaringen. Heb je zin om mee te doen, schroom niet en meld je aan. Dat kan hier.

We zitten nog in oktobermaand, maar wat boeit het. Ik begin gewoon. Give it away - now!

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Oh, en op wiki vond ik ook nog wat info (in het engels) over de achtergrond van het nummer.

Give it away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The lyrical meaning behind "Give It Away" is centered around the philosophy of selflessness and altruistic behavior.[4] The song is titled after its most prevalent lyrical phrase "give it away", which is taken from an experience Kiedis had with his former girlfriend—punk rock singer Nina Hagen—in the early 1980s.[4] Hagen was several years Kiedis' senior and became a role-model during his drug addiction to heroin: "she realized how young and inexperienced I was then, so she was always passing on gems to me, not in a preachy way, just by seizing on opportunities."[7] When Kiedis was looking through her closet he came across a jacket he liked, and commented to Hagen that it was "really cool".[7] Upon expressing this, Hagen immediately told him to keep it. Her reasoning behind this selflessness was due to an attempt to constantly make her life more enjoyable, and explained to Kiedis that "if you have a closet full of clothes and you try to keep them all, your life will get very small. But if you have a full closet and someone sees something they like, if you give it to them, the world is a better place."[7] The act was something that affected Kiedis significantly because he had never before experienced such an enlightening ideology on life. Growing up in Los Angeles he had always thought differently from Hagen; instead of giving material possessions away and being free thinking the vocalist believed one must take what they want as no one will provide for you.[7] Instead, he now adopted Hagen's philosophy: "It was such an epiphany that someone would want to give me her favorite thing. That stuck with me forever."