Tag: words

  • How would we live our lives, if we knew the potential we had within? Would we heal for a better future?

    How would we live our lives, if we knew the potential we had within? Would we heal for a better future?

    Healing.  Noun. the process of making/becoming sound and healthy again.  Why would anyone want to heal? The path is narrow, the terrains are (let’s be honest) shit. So why? To weather the storms of life with some level of comfort and assurance.  I realised what I just typed sounds like the ultimate contradiction. And maybe…

  • The Journey to Healing Part 2: Choices and Progress

    The Journey to Healing Part 2: Choices and Progress

    Change starts today, to make room for the progress we want to see tomorrow. It is in the small moments where we find ourselves choosing. Whether to grow or to remain. The triumphs are found in small victories. This is healing. This is growth.

  • Healing part 1: Learning to listen to your inner voice.

    Healing part 1: Learning to listen to your inner voice.

    “The ears may never hear, but the soul knows. Learning to listen to your inner voice”  Whatever the healing looks like, or what we are trying to heal from. It is a journey. An opportunity to be honest with ourselves.  That anger that is bubbling deep within from a disrespect we told ourselves that was…

  • Those who judge the harshest, are the most broken

    Those who judge the harshest, are the most broken

    Life becomes more bearable when it is understood. This is my observation of judgemental individuals and trying to understand life from their perspective.

  • Navigating Friendship: Quality vs. Quantity. What is more important?

    Navigating Friendship: Quality vs. Quantity. What is more important?

    My complex has a shared garden area for the residents to use. There is also a self appointed garden committee who “looks after” the garden. The representatives, decided that it would be a good idea to have a native garden. Even though it sheds leaves like crazy and requires constant watering. The head of the…

  • Good leaders have great vision

    Good leaders have great vision

    I don’t think about leadership or being a leader. What’s the point and purpose in leading someone? There must be a greater purpose to leadership other than a title to boss people around. Because, that is not true leadership; that is autocracy. There is a difference.  Good leaders are also excellent individual contributors. They know…

  • The Power of Choice: Embracing Growth Over Comfort

    The Power of Choice: Embracing Growth Over Comfort

    I write essays about human connection, hope and finding healing. All of my essays are either found by existing and experiencing life for all that it is. Or they have been inspired by connections and conversations.  Why the path of least resistance is so alluring Each and everyone of us on God’s green earth would…

  • The power of human connection.

    The power of human connection.

    “Everybody has a story” This is the essence of the human connection. The shared experience and relatability. At the core of my blog, I want the reader/ a reader to experience the “human connection”. And whilst it is not optimal as an in person connection, it is still a connection nevertheless.  I wholeheartedly believe that…

  • Reflection: Saying goodbye to May. I’m not quite ready for June.

    Reflection: Saying goodbye to May. I’m not quite ready for June.

    As May comes to an end, I reflect on the seconds, hours and days this month has bought me. Apart from the everyday things of life, pay my car insurance and all that other good stuff like: catching a cold and acquiring a lingering cough that won’t leave my body, and having people look at…

  • Life: Remembering the simpler times

    Life: Remembering the simpler times

    I do remember life before the internet, but that will also mean I am admitting that I am old. Well I kinda am. I am the generation where dial up internet was a real thing. Where we had to wait ages for the internet page to load up and the pixelation was all blocky.  AOL…

  • Life: You cannot compare & be happy

    Life: You cannot compare & be happy

    I have (for one reason or another) met people from all walks of life. Call it fate or call it something else, our paths crossed. Professions of many kinds. Even an ex special ops who taught me about box breathing. (I wonder why it’s called box breathing?) Anyway … who knew I needed to learn…

  • Relationship: If you want to know what love is?

    Relationship: If you want to know what love is?

    The sort of love that will weather the storm with you, protect you during times of hardship, are the ones that kindly says no to things when it is needed. And whilst it does not feel good, you will know that this kind of love has the stamina to run the race.

  • A Random encounter: A happenstance perspective shift.

    A Random encounter: A happenstance perspective shift.

    The strangers we meet, are sometimes a divine intervention for us to see hope in the most unassuming places. This is the story about Leilani and her positive disposition.

  • Relationship: If you love someone, never go to the supermarket together

    Relationship: If you love someone, never go to the supermarket together

    When we’re single, there is always a romantic notion attached to the ideals of coupledom, and all the things we could do as a couple. Neglecting the mundaneness of life … Catching up with paired up friend/s, and them … showing wonderful holiday snaps (fuels) a tinge of envy that we are not at that…

  • Forgiveness comes from a place of understanding

    Forgiveness comes from a place of understanding

    If you can’t do it for them, do it for you.  Don’t wait to forgive. The time on earth is finite.  Why are we holding a grudge? Is it because we feel entitled to it? At what cost are we paying?  We never consider the hidden cost of unforgiveness. Or the fact that we ……

  • What would you do if you weren’t afraid. A tale of courage

    What would you do if you weren’t afraid. A tale of courage

    What would you do if you weren’t afraid?  Do that. That’s your calling.  Don’t look around to see what others are doing. A footstep in the sand is never the same. It has a unique pattern, just like our spirits.  Sometimes, it takes a long time to play ourselves.  There is no manual on how…

  • A floral installation: A short tale about hope & growth

    A floral installation: A short tale about hope & growth

    A flower does not bloom over night. Their beauty also came with many struggles. They had to fight the darkness in order to find the sun, the source of nourishment. The flower never gave up because she couldn’t see the light. She has faith. Pushing one sprout at a time. She never gave up until…