The sun always shines even in the dark

If it's all getting impossible, look at what else may be possible!

Do what you can, and forget what it seems you can't do!

Think, for example, of how differently you feel on a morning after a good night's rest than how you feel at the end of a long hard day.

There will come a moment when you face easier circumstances and are carrying a far lighter load.

There's not long to go now before a situation changes.

So, if something has to wait just a little longer till you're ready to tackle it, that's not so bad.

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Who’s your daddy

These modern days are meant to be full of fun and loose ties.

The age of the flower children is gone but their “free love” has remained.

People go out and let their hormones do their thinking and “it is all in fun and in eternal love too … and many other lyrics they might think about their precious fun” but in their enjoyment, do they allow their brains to take responsibility for the fun effects?

There is a time to play, there is time to stop and think “am doing this right?”… “is this for my own good?”… “is this what I want for my life?” “Am I ready to take the responsibility of raising a child?”.. “Can I afford to bring a child to this world in my present circumstances?”

We are humans after all and we are weak, we are weak from 12-25 years of age, after that age we have our heads on our shoulders even when the fireworks are reaching heaven. Whether is a male or female the responsibility falls on both, she has to protect her body and sanity, he has to make sure there are not risks involved and make sure he protects her from unwanted pregnancy as well. After all we are RESPONSIBLE human beings after 18-21 years of age.

I am a pro-abortion where there is a reason to protect the carrier, where there are children abused or raped, no religion should interfere where the life of a child has been compromised by selfish force. The poor needs family planning education and protection of unwanted pregnancies, areas infected with HIV/AIDS need to be protected to avoid spreading the disease.

Pope Benedict XVI made the controversial remarks last week when he travelled to Africa, the worst-hit continent for AIDS saying that “condoms exacerbate the problem of HIV/AIDS, the Pope has publicly distorted scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine on this issue," The Lancet said in its editorial. AIDS is a tragedy "that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems," the Pope said aboard his flight to Cameroon.

Then in a country where poverty reigns and physical-human needs must be met, how does the Pope plan to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide?

These type of comments from very influential figures are devastating to the health of millions of people, I hope the Vatican retracts the Pope’s comments otherwise let’s sit and wait for the worse to come over us.

Few weeks ago little Alfie Patten from UK, just 13 years old made news after the classical “only once” his girlfriend fell pregnant and now they are the happy parents of a gorgeous bouncing little bab…

Little Alfie stood tall at his young age taking responsibility for his actions, I was so proud of him for stepping forward, a reaction hard to be seen on older males. Although in his heart he wants to be the daddy of the new baby, fortunately the tests are protecting him and the tests have shown he is not the daddy of little Maisie.

Now the question for the new mum; “who’s the daddy” of the baby? That is her problem and I hope the support from her parents will take her to a safer platform.

At this stage Alfie has been protected by nature and in the future he will be thankful for the DNA results as he is free to be whoever he wants to be when the time arrives. He has shown a high degree of responsibility at this young age, he might develop that responsibility by being near Maisie while she grows up and who knows, maybe become her dad.

Little Maisie has lots of love right now and she is a blessed little girl. Her mum also took her stand by allowing her baby a chance in this life. Both Alfie and Chantelle have defended their young love against all odds, I wish them well.

If older people could afford to sit and think the best solution to protect "their eternal love" there would be more happiness around.

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wanting more

Time to look after number 1... let go, be free

There is more to you than meets the eye.
Many times what catches my eyes' and/or my heart's attention is deceiving.

There is more to life than an unsatisfactory situation that you seem to be caught up in.
The feeling of attachment is so strong that letting go hurts, once mind is made up, loosing grip to attachment becomes a breeze.

There is more hope, more joy and more love in your heart than you could ever experience if you dedicated the whole of the rest of your life to pursuing this and nothing else.
On my way to it now, and it is a great joyful adventure getting there.

Why then, when your life could be full of so much more, are you seemingly willing to settle for so much less?
I WANT MORE, and I always want MORE and MORE... why settle for little when I own the world?

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Who...

The feeling of floating made me a giant,
owning the whole world,
everything around me became so small and
easy to control from where I was,
life felt vibrant, light, and powerful to own it all.
I'm still in charge of my life while I am 'floating'.
Jeglyla swapped skydiving for a more relaxing environment.
Photo: Jessica Jose

Q. Who are you?
A. I'm Lyla, Jeg, and whoever I love being at any time, I AM a human being

Q. What makes you 'you'?
A. My sweet, loving, caring, passionate, grumpy, energetic essence

Q. Are you who you used to be?
A. Nope, I left the old me 9 years ago to be exact, now I am the New Me Me Me

Q. Are you who you will be one day?
A. Not yet, maybe one day I will be perfectly Me

Q. We assume that you must be 'who you are right now', but wait.
A. Correct, I am now more loving, caring, straight-forward, and mean at times, I accept myself as I am with all my faults and virtues, a person who loves being happy no matter what.

Q. What if you are not feeling yourself at the moment?
A. Then I am also Mean Me, I simply must accept my less happy me as it is part of my being, I have to carry my little less-happy self at the moment, that is if I were not feeling myself.

The factors that go to make up our sense of identity are complex, subtle, yet crucial.
You are learning a lot about yourself now.

One of the things you are (or should be) learning, is that you are worth more happiness than you have lately experienced.

When I am less happy is when I give too much of myself to others then I find that my love is less appreciated, as soon as I find out where I am standing then it is very easy to bring back myself into a happy mood.

Then, I realise that I am more important than anything else around me... By being happy my life, my health, my spirit my environment float and I love that floating feeling as everything runs soooo smoothly when I am floating..

Knowing Who I AM helps to know What I WANT discarding the unwanted, looking forward to see that which I want to see only, looking forward to BE, that part of me that makes me happy or happier or the happiest, appreciating all the tiny gifts life offers me.

Many times is not the hilarious happy, but a pleasant peaceful happiness deep inside me makes me float through out my day.

I'm back...

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March 24 – this day today

1379 - The Gelderse war ended.

1545 - German Parliament opened in Worms.

1550 - France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne.

1629 - The first game law was passed in the American colonies, by Virginia.

1664 - A charter to colonize Rhode Island was granted to Roger Williams in London.

1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis.

1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.

1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London.

1828 - The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway was authorized as the first state owned railway.

1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.

1837 - Canada gave blacks the right to vote

1848 - A state of siege was proclaimed in Amsterdam.

1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was formed.

1878 - The British frigate Eurydice sank killing 300.

1880 - The first "hail insurance company" was incorporated in Connecticut. It was known as Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company.

1882 - In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus).

1883 - The first telephone call between New York and Chicago took place.

1898 - The first automobile was sold.

1900 - Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1900 - In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed.

1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.

1905 - In Crete, a group led by Eleutherios Venizelos claimed independence from Turkey.

1906 - In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal.

1906 - The "Census of the British Empire" revealed that England ruled 1/5 of the world.

1911 - In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment.

1920 - The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC.

1924 - Greece became a republic.

1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.

1932 - Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train. It was the first radio broadcast from a train.

1934 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

1938 - The U.S. asked that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.

1944 - In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.

1946 - The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Iran.

1947 - The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.

1951 – JEG was born in South America, a bouncing cheeky little baby that grew up to be a rebel with and without cause.

1954 - Britain opened trade talks with Hungary.

1955 - Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway.

1955 - The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service.

1960 - A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", was not obscene and could be sent through the mail.

1972 - Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland.

1976 - The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country's military.

1980 - In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass.

1981 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premiered.

1985 - Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain.

1988 - Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded innocent to Iran-Contra charges.

1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.

1989 - The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras.

1990 - Indian troops left Sri Lanka.

1991 - The African nation of Benin held its first presidential elections in about 30 years.

1993 - In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.

1995 - Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martan. It was one of the few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia.

1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.

1997 - The Australian parliament overturned the world's first and only euthanasia law.

1998 - In Jonesboro, AR, two young boys open fire at students from woods near a school. Four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others were injured. The two boys were 11 and 13 years old cousins.

1998 - A former FBI agent said papers found in James Earl Ray's car supports a conspiracy theory in the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

1999 - In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured.

1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.

1999 - The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France was an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught on fire. At least 30 people were killed.

2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.

2005 - The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition protesters took over President Askar Akayev's presidential compound and government offices.

2005 - Sandra Bullock received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2006 - In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire.

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Neither Money or Love make the world go round

Money doesn't make the world go round. Love doesn't either.

It's fashion that causes the planet to spin. That... and pop music.

Didn't you know? Where have you been?

I'd love to tell you this is as close as you are likely to get to hearing a preposterous statement this week. I rather fear, though, that you have heard several already.

The best such announcements are, of course, always made by people who have no idea how ridiculous they sound.

Tolerance is really what makes the world go round.

So is not love, nor money, and not much of musical fashion either but ...

Tolerance aha...! I am tolerant enough to run my truck over the ridiculous and remain with a happy smile sitting on top of the world... :)

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Are you paying me attention?

Listening and Talking

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Iris how to listen, society here would be quite civilized… Oscar Wilde

How to truly listen – actively, positively listen.

Listening is not waiting for the other person to finish so that we can say what we want to say. Listening is not preparing what we want to say while the other is speaking.

Listening is taking a deep breath and clearing ourselves so that we can be receptive to hearing what the other is saying – without interrupting. Listening is letting the words, feelings and intuitions of the other enter into our inner space so that we have the possibility of knowing without words.

No man was ever wise by chance – Seneca

There seems to be a one-to-one positive correlation between wisdom, listening, and humility.

The wisest people are the most humble and skilled listeners. Somehow listening, wisdom and humility seem to form an unstoppable tripod of basics for good living.

• Good listeners have the ability to listen to themselves. They are not selfish or self-centered in their self listening, they are simply attentive. They are attentive to the small stirrings within themselves that allow them to know themselves and be in tune with themselves.

• Good listeners listen to their God, their Higher Power, their Creator or the Universal Wisdom that sustains and informs us all.

• Good listeners listen lovingly to others, finding something of importance in everything that is said.

• They listen to nature, knowing that the utterings of the world around them are older than any of us and need to be heeded if we are to live in balance and harmony.

Then there is talking

When we talk, we have a sacred responsibility for everything that comes out of our mouth. We have an obligation to speak clearly, truthfully, and succinctly so that what we convey has the best possible chance to be understood.

We can be somber, funny, entertaining or serious and we are responsible for our words if we want others to listen to us.

Most of the time I listen and I tend to listen more than what I should causing me a lot of unhappiness as I tend to go out off my way to help out my talker. My restriction should be; "wait until the talker asks you to act", I am too impulsive.

One thing I need to improve is my talking, I let go loose my pent up feelings all at once, take it of leave it otherwise, I practice "sensible talking".

Check out your listening and talking skills…

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