As the years continue....

....to pass by, the more I realise that this world is a crazy place. So, how crazy are we that, even when we can see how crazy it is, we still seek our place within it? We still seek sanity, strive for order and look for something that will make sense of the nonsense. Only one thing though, really makes this world go round and it is not money. It is love. A love that's linked with compassion, sympathy, sensitivity and respect.

That's what we're here to feel, to share and to show. And when we do, all becomes meaningful.

All great achievements require time.   (Maya Angelou)

A serial kliller....

The world can be....

....a cruel place at times. Some people, it seems, delight in being cold and critical, judgemental and disapproving. They show no respect.  They will go out of their way to force others to go out of their way. Negativity, of course, begets negativity. Intolerance begets intolerance.

But friendliness fortunately is just as contagious.

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, 

the more noise they make in pouring it out.

If you walk....

....up to the entrance of a supermarket, you won't satisfy your hunger. You can't illuminate your room just by purchasing a light-bulb.  Until the food is in the stomach or the bulb is in the socket, you don't have a full solution. You may be one step closer to the answer, but you still have a way to go.
Sometimes, when we have nearly done the right thing, we forget to complete the task. Then we wonder why we can see no change.

Take one more step and you may very well see a very big difference.

Sometimes, you have to stop thinking so much and just go where your heart takes you.

The only time to look back....

Society subtly urges us....

....to be decisive. We applaud those who look as if they know what they are doing. Upon those who seem uncertain, we heap, at best, pity and, at worst, derision. It seems there is shame attached to conceding confusion with regard to almost any subject. 

Yet know-it-alls never discover anything because they are too pompous to allow themselves to ask crucial questions. But anything that's bewildering you, is potentially what may be about to teach you the most rewarding lesson.

Enjoy life today, because yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is never promised.

It is a civilised world....

....in which we live; or so we are told. We are not primitives. We are not cave dwellers. We are part of a sophisticated society, a refined, elegant culture in which good manners predominate and only the highest values hold sway. 

Well, you have to give credit - it sounds good, doesn't it? (I certainly haven't been bombarded by good manners in recent months.)  And as long as we ignore the things that happen in dark corners under murky shadows, we can uphold this comforting, if questionable, belief. Yet the world is surely, not just what we choose to see it is, but how we choose to make it.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, 

not our circumstances.    (Martha Washington)