in a

Big Box Store

Singing.

Let’s duet!

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The bluebird of happiness

just might be

at home

even if you can’t see her.

I will jump out in the sun!

I am not a plague in a puddle.

I am a polliwog.

I haven’t posted in a while, and I feel right now is the right time.

So the last month has been a testing one, emotionally and physically
Trying to get back to some sort of normality after a tragic loss has been one of the hardest things but I feel now I’m at that place now.

I’m getting happier, my confidence is slowly going up due to my job, and having family around me.
I just wanna do more now, achieve more and see more people, due to starting in the hospitality industry my friends have took the backseat (which I do apologise for) but sometimes you have to make sacrifices to kick start something and it will all go back to normal hopefully so I can see people again.

In times of hardship it’s amazing to see who is there for you and who isn’t and who comes into your life and is there for you, that has been a big thing I’ve learned from going through this. I’ve learned to not take things for granted and just enjoy the people I have around me, you lose friends, you gain friends, but things happen for a reason in this world, and everyone has a path, a constantly evolving path and no one knows where one is going to end up, but I guess that is the beauty of life.

You may feel at one point that you have nothing and you’re worth nothing and trust me I’ve felt that a lot of times in the past, but some days you just wake up and you’re thankful for what you do or don’t have, because it gives you all the more determination to go and get something, learn things, adapt and grow in other areas, and appreciate what you do have, and I think that is a big thing.

Sometimes you have to live in the now and know that one day you’ll get to where you want to be, but it’s going to take time, effort, and it will drain you, sometimes you will feel beaten down and don’t know if you’re going  the right way, but really what is the right way in life? you just gotta focus on you, do you, see what more you have to offer yourself and others around you.

Everyone wants more for themselves and I think that is an admirable thing, you’ve just got to keep your dreams alive, even if you feel they’re hard to attain.

I need to have fun and not be so serious sometimes, I need to let my guards down a little but at the same time, keep it up just enough.

Life is a test with no right or wrong answers, you’ve just gotta do what you do and get to where you want to be, be someone you’re proud of.

“You’re much more than the struggle that you go through”

I think I’m evolving constantly, and I’m getting happier with that.

Don’t mistake the map for the landscape.

“…night and day are ruled by the rising and setting of the sun, the rotation of the earth.” Building upon my previous thoughts on the illusory nature of Time, recall: “We would do well to keep in mind the arbitrariness of labeling”.

When we label a certain time of day by way of our arbitrary societal grid of numbers maintained by clocks, or a season of the earth’s natural cycle as months and days and years, it is a system by which we are able to coordinate and communicate and organize our experiences within each Now. Let us simply bear in mind, that the number is not the Reality, but only a way to understand the occurrence.

Likewise, we use maps to organize, systemize, and depict the nature of a landscape in which we find ourselves. Let us not forget, as we study the picture, that we are studying a representation of the Reality, and not Reality itself.

Thoughts are important; we observe and accumulate observations, then categorize and organize them in order to derive overarching meaning. Let us simply bear in mind, and be ever Aware, that the Ideas floating through our mind are not necessarily the actual Reality. These thoughts are our own observations and our categorizations of realizations we have regarding our observations.

Thoughts float along the river of our mind, and our Ego picks up each thought to cling onto it and identify with it.

If we are aware of this, we can better recognize the impermanence of Thought and decide which thoughts are beneficial at any given moment, and which are not.

Recall the second type of Clinging:

• Attachment to views– “the tendency of the mind to seek out a viewpoint or opinion where everything is clear… Now everything is safe and comfortable for me… The Buddha is pointing to our tendency to seek security, peace, well-being and happiness in our views and perspectives.”

Does this mean, as some posit in various fashions, that there is no Reality and that all is simply a fabrication of our Perceptions? I tend to think not. There is Reality; we are of and from the Earth; we are firmly integrated and a part of the universe we see — we are children of the Stars. But, the thoughts we harbor regarding the Reality around us is a representation of that universe in which we find ourselves. To maintain this awareness is to foster universal understanding and peace.

Let us not mistake the Idea, for the Truth.

super purr and super powers

mingle.

You are the wild peacemaker of souls.

and I answered.

I am a bird on the tree of life.

I am a shadow of a bird on the tree of life.

I am a shadow of a bird on the tree of life.

I am a shadow of the tree of life.

I am the tree of life.

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