The sacredness of solitude is so often an overlooked experience to be had in life. Society is made to pity the lonely or those who live alone. Later in life single people at dinner parties are pitied by married couples with children. When you hit 30 it’s as if the whole world has gone mad in its desire to have you settled down and married. Especially as a woman. And…
View PostI am told to express my feelings. To let them out. My writing is what I am all about. With tears streaming down my face, I find it hard to express this place. Today is my loneliness day.The harsh reality of feelings curdling through my soul.Instead of walking or talking back to a safe placeIt is time to express this feeling, my way. While on good days, days when…
View PostAccepting our humanity, including those parts of us we may consider are flaws is so important for our wellbeing and personal balance. When something in us seems wrong, imperfect or even viewed as ugly it can really place a deep dent on our self-esteem. I used to be called goofy at school, my protruding front teeth was the talking point of the school bullies and the boys in my…
View PostI would like to begin to look at my physical self as the new ‘normal’. The media, magazines, television, celebrities, dentists, beauty ‘experts’ share opinions of a smile that is similar to mine needing fixing. The would view my ‘imperfect’ teeth as not nice and not attractive. I feel after much self introspection I have perfect teeth. I have perfect teeth for me. For me, I am wanted to not only…
View PostBeing an outsider is the most rewarding experience of my life. For many years I have tried to fit into a mould. During school years the mould of my peers, during college the mould of intellectuals, as my spiritual awakening happened – the mould of the spiritual elite. AND for most of the time I was always trying to fit the mould of expectations from my biological…
View PostInsights on myself are coming in thick and fast right now. Understanding my desires in life and revealing my true face to myself has been an eye opener. Why do any of us want anything in life? I realised my prime reason in life is to feel absolutely excellent! It is not to share, donate to charity, ‘be spiritual’ the overall essence of what I want in my life…
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