Hurt! Are you hurting and have you let all the pain become defining factors in your life? How many of us have let hurt keep us down?
It’s natural for us to feel hurt or disappointed from failures and possibly withdraw into our shells, but the sad thing is that some take it that it’s the way their life is meant to be, thus they remain withdrawn or at best living their lives at half mast.
Remember that the entirety of your life is far bigger than one fall, so you must keep rising. Remember that odd circumstance could just be a detour that could always turn around.
Remember that those deliberate negative aims from others are just in a bid to keep you where they feel most comfortable ‘under their thumb.’
Ask yourself. Is that where you deserve to belong?
Next week, I’ll share a post on how to get past the pain and to live on purpose.
P.S. You are invited to our monthly blog party this weekend. It’s fun and you get to meet fantastic folks
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On Thursday’s, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Every Thursday, share a photo of bits and pieces of wherever you are at any point in time. It could be a house, backgrounds of your neighbourhood, activities and so forth and you can tag it Echos of my Neighbourhood, add my link to your post so that I will get the ping from your post.
Every other Thursday, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated the previous week.
This is just a fun way of getting to see more of the World around us through your eyes since we cannot all be at those places, we could, at least, see them through you.
Roaming around
Park walk way
Loungers
The Zabeel park library
Play time
A kitty came to play
Pruning the palms
Some planets
People watching
Some part of the office where I spend most of my working week.
A peek out of my office window
Knick knacks on the window sill
We met the benevolent cat lady 🙂
These days the eye of the Sun rises sharply around 5.am over here and by mid-day, it’s steaming hot. Alas, my days of weekend park forays will be cut a little short
We managed to sneak in a park visit last week, spent some time at the lovely library, played football, ate our sandwiches and ice-cream and generally lounged till it got too hot and we left for home.
We satin our homes and travelled to many exotics locations. Hop on let’s go and see
Saying thanks: Lady Lee shows us great pieces, delicious platters and shares snippets of a wedding in London. I hope she’ll give us a peek to her trip when she returns 🙂
A lady of many talents Compelling pieces of artwork from Kat Myrman herself. She’s one bundle of a talented lady 🙂
Giggles and Tales: Absolutely gorgeous bits of Denmark. If I can climb into a picture, I would.
The village: When I say this village is enchanting, I mean total enchantment. I felt like I was reading my childhood books by Enid Blyton and those sweet romance of Barbara Cartland 😉
Thoughts and entanglements My children would totally love this place. Skateboards, calmness and crickets…
Now, don’t horde the beauty of life around you, just for yourself. Do share with us 😉
P.S. You are invited to our monthly blog party this weekend. It’s fun and you get to meet fantastic folks
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
I wanted to join the Kindness challenge right from the onset but with so much on my schedule, I could barely see where to fit it in until an idea struck me that I could tie it with my daily observation of everyday people. I’ll try as much as I can to keep to the challenge for the next few weeks.
However, having always being a people observer, over time, I’ve noted both the lapses in human kindness as well as the beautiful expressions of kindness people show.
The lady below caught my attention during my early morning visit to the park over the weekend.
Pets and strays are not particularly a favourite in this part of the World though people own their pets and learn to keep them behaved, but in the case of strays, they are at the mercy of mercy.
I’d noticed the cute kittens when they wandered closer but within minutes, I was privy to a scene that made me happy.
The kittens seemed to know that their benevolent ‘Cat lady‘ was on her way, so they wandered out of their hidden corner.
She buys food for them from a nearby Waitrose and comes to the park to feed them each day, under the scolding gaze of the groundskeeper.
We had a chat and she related to me on how she had been told off severally by them, but her mind just couldn’t let her be when she thought that they were starving and now the groundskeeper ignores her 🙂
She couldn’t take in pets ‘cos her apartment is ‘no pets allowed.’ We talked about letting an animal shelter know about the little ones and she agreed to look into it and I thanked her for doing what she was doing.
I left with some sense of happiness. Her kindness didn’t go unnoticed.
The fastest way to take away the joy from your everyday living is to consistently spend your time comparing your life to someone else’s.
Set your own goals and stay focused on them.
Always ask yourself why you are doing what you are doing? What’s the primary purpose?
That way you don’t run the risk of drifting like a used paper napkin that floats in the wind, from one track to the other.
When you stay on track, you get to your goal post, but drifting will find you aimless, stressed and not getting to the desired destination.
Like my people would say back home “after the race, we count the miles.” Don’t exhaust yourself and run the race only to find at the end that you ran aimlessly.
“Free yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley
I totally love this quote taken from Marley’s song.
When I look up to the skies
and watch the way a bird flies
free from any inhibitions
that hinders its expeditions
I wonder if you and I
are free to fly that high,
or are we buckled down by precepts
handed over time to preempt?
True state of freedom, I find
lies in the state of mind.
For the one who seeks to be free
must learn first to master the mind.
Today’s prompt for writer’s quote Wednesday challenge is “freedom” and interestingly this is one theme that I’ve been thinking of throughout this week.
Freedom to be. Can we truly experience freedom in entirety as a human race? Freedom to be you without the silent permission of others?
I doubt it. Society can’t exist without rules. Freedom comes at the price of having responsibility and most people don’t like responsibility.
However, I cherish the freedom to pursue my passion one word at a time. The freedom of etching my words can’t be taken away from me.
P.S. You are invited to our monthly blog party this weekend. It’s fun and you get to meet fantastic folks
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
We draw to the close of May so fast that I’m left gasping to catch my breath.
Yesterday was just December, and now we are done with the 1st quarter of the year, with some water gone under the bridge and quite some notable celebrities have crossed over to the other side.
Today, my thoughts have been on a reminiscent drift. It’s three years today that my dad passed on and I find myself replaying a lot of scenes of the past in my mind. Not in a bad way but in a bitter-sweet way.
I find myself filled with peace. Peace for having known him as my father.
I’ve not achieved all that I set out for myself for this quarter. I’ve been slow, but I’m thankful for the much that I’ve done.
I’m grateful for the Grace and Favour received each day, to wake and see the rising Sun and pursue my dreams. To drink my warm cup of beverage and hope for tomorrow. I’m grateful.
There’s always something to be grateful for. You canYou can join Colline’s or Maria Jansson gratitude challenge platforms.
P.S. You are invited to our monthly blog party this weekend. It’s fun and you get to meet fantastic folks 🙂
Below is my first just published Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
When his face is sought with such fervent endeavour
We have no idea how much we do for our hearts and minds when we embark on a journey of self-discovery and freedom.
Each of us has a different path to take to their ‘Uhuru.’ Though we may keep each other company and cross paths, my path can’t lead you to the end of yours.
Each of us has different shackles to loosen to set us free. Each of us has many rivers to cross, mountains to climb and time spent in the valley.
What I’ve found is that once you’ve chosen to walk into the light and positivity, then begins the joyful results of freedom.
Freedom is not a result that comes idly. Freedom is a consistent journey of the mind and it’s in that process of finding your freedom that you truly become free.
Jacqueline
P.S. You are invited to our monthly blog party this weekend. It’s fun and you get to meet fantastic folks
Below is my first Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.
When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.
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