Chasing away the Facebook Crowd

Posting.  No Comment.  Posting.  No Comment.  Posting.  Chat people vanish and all go online.  Write on your wall.  No other comments posted for a full ten minutes.  What is it?  You have not realised that most people on Facebook only want one thing  ..... to be the Centre of attention.  Not YOU, not the next person and their writing tells you.  Rather, be a follower and commentor and see.  

Next time you are afraid

Remember that you are not the only one.  I am afraid of darkness.  Sometimes I am even afraid of noises, or my own thoughts.  I am afraid of not having enough money, or having too little not to be able to do what has to be done.  I am not afraid of failure, or embarrassment, or getting my hands dirty doing honest work, or talking about my predicaments, but sometimes, ego gets in the way of reasoning.  What other people think, or say, or might say or think, takes such prominence it makes me loose sight of what is important and that, is what is right ..... by your beliefs, whatever they are.  We cannot all go to the same church, or agree to the same interpretation of christianity, or sexual orientation but, we are all human and that is that. 

I'm lucky

To do what I am passionate about and call it work.  I get excited when I work.  New ideas keep constantly flowing in and I have difficulty getting up to leave the computer and go home.  I feel good when I do this.  I come alive and my life feels worthwhile.   Maybe that is all there is to work, the ability to feel good about what you do, whether or not you get paid for it.  No one can take away the satisfaction of accomplishing something fruitful with your time.  Remember that next time you have to do something you want to do ..... even if its for free.

I wannabe ......!

A human being who can find common grounds of communication between my parents and my children, not be the counduit of their frustrations with each other. 

How to get out of a foul mood

Snap at everyone and have none of them do the same to you. Get a few minutes on your own and enjoy realising what a total idiot you have made of yourself. And indulge in the battle between your pride refusing to apologise and your conscience insisting that you do. Look at the people you have snapped at refusing eye contact with you and throughly appreciate the silences which follow your entry into a room. This is the point where you either turn on your heel and go away (yawning gap in the ground please swallow me!) or you brave face it and continue as if nothing happened..... and continue, till its done to YOU.

What they wore

I remember what he wore when he cut off the electricity on a Friday, right in the middle of winter. He would not accept evidence of a wrongly dated receipt, even when logic dictated that it was a typo error. He wore his work uniform - light blue. I also remember the doctor, wearing the famous whites, his stethoscope and the way he spoke to his friends and laughed for a whole hour while children wreathed, puked and moaned all around us, because it was a government hospital, and the attending midwife who was busy chatting about her favourite television programme in the maternity ward. I identified the still-born twins who could have made it, had that midwife done what she came to work for.

In my world, you accept these things and life goes on.

I like

You.  Me.  The space and the mess that my life is right now.  Its tough, its tight, its crazy but it is life.  Yes, it can drive you to see the person who lives under a tree, who tells you that the reason why you have not made your millions is because of your mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle or friend.    And the reson why your family has not progressed for the last five hundred years is because of 'bad winds' in your family fortune.  Very   enlightening. And profitable by the number of  "clients" such people have.  You like it better than the motivtional speaker who tells you to stop living with self limiting beliefs.    Or the one who purports to see what the future holds for you, (with a little help from a lot of generalisations of life's events as they happen to most people, thank you).  What I think.  Stick with what works for you.