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| Reading your recent posts got me looking through my bookshelf for a book I've not picked up for a while:
The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom
Although I'm not buddhist, there are so many wise words spoken in this book by his holiness.
I hope some of these will guide you.
I think human beings are the superior sentinent beings on this planet. Humans have the potential not only to create happy lives for themselves, bus also to help other beings. We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.
With the realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self -confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of one's own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.
The smile is a very important feature of the human face. But because of human intelligence, even that good part of human nature can be used in the wrong way, such as sarcastic smiles or diplomatic smiles, which only serve to create suspicion. I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives, How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on ones own behaviour.
Good conduct is the way in which life becomes more meaningful, more constructive and more peaceful. For this, much depends on our behaviour and mental attitude.
Quite simply, keep smiling hun, it's genuine smiles like yours that bring meaning to the mundane. | |
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| I'm sick...again!
I've just got over a throat infection and now I've got near to no voice apart from something that sounds like a squeaky frog lol
It's so annyoing, I got myself a nice warm winter coat, a scarf and I've not been caught in the any of the downpours lately, but still I end up getting sick!
*sneezes, coughs and splutters at you all* - Mood:sick
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| I'm not saying much in this entry, there is stuff on my mind far too heave for the likes of livejournal.
I start my first 'official' day at work today 10am-7pm, it's the first day that the pub will be open to family and friends for us to serve them food and drink, I'm not really up for it today, but so is life.
It's also mine and Curtis's first Anniversary, one year and hopefully many more to come! - Mood:blank
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| I havn't wrote an entry for a while, so here is a little update.
I started a new job Sunday, so far it's been all training, paid, which is good. It's another bar job, less pay but a better environment than my last job. It's a whole new pub, well what was an existing wreck of a pub taken over by M&B and it looks amazing, everything is new, the place was completely gutted and started afresh. I have my first 'shift' for family and friends on Saturday and then Tuesday we officially open to the public.
Nothing much else has been happening personally.
It's coming up to mine and Curt's first anniversay on the 1st December = D
He will be visiting on the 17/18th December until a week after Christmas which will be awesome.
Thats all for now <3 | |
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| http://youtube.com/watch?v=1FdB5Adws78I love this song... On to what this post is actually about. I need to talk and seeing as everyone is out the house and also that I don't think my family would really understand, I'll spill it here. I'm not expecting a reply, I just need to say what's in my head. I'm extemely happy with how my life is at the moment, I have a wonderful family, an incredible partner, a job, I'm almost near graduation...but still I feel like there is one area where I am seriously lacking. Faith. I'm not 'religious' in the sense of classing myself as Chrisitan or otherwise. I've never been christened and I've so far in my life never 'chosen' a religion through this process. However, I'd say Christianity is the closest to how I feel about God. I feel as though i'm lacking in this area though, I know that I love God and that he has blessed my life with so much goodness but I don't feel like I'm fulfilling my 'religious' role as I should be, to connect with him in on a more personal level. When I was over in California with Curtis and his family I felt so close to them and so much closer to God than I had ever felt in my life. Since being home, I sit to read the bible, to read through passages I know so well, but it's not enough. I feel like I want to be doing something, volunteering, helping out with Church, going to Church! I dunno, doing something... I don't kniow if that sounds selfish, if it does that isnt my intention, I just want to learn more and to share what I know with other people I dunno. x - Mood:thoughtful
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| Ok, so my hair is starting to get a lil long, well longer than it has been for some time. I'm thinking of doing something with it...Im not sure what. Right now it looks like this:  and I kinda like the lead singer from New Young Pony Clubs hair, here are a few shots:    They aren't very clear pics as they were screen shots from their videos lol | |
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| It's been a while since I last updated this. Thing's have been pretty hectic lately. Started that new job, University assignments to work on and hand in and looking at various options which lie ahead of me.
So first off, Uni. It's going alright, I handed in my first assigment the other day, only a short one but it felt like a good start to the year to sit down and actually be able to think of things I wanted to say with ease rather than fumbling for words. The classes are progressing and I'm enjoying them more especially the 1960's class, there are some fantastic books and the lectures are pretty interesting. I finished reading A Clockwork Orange and now I'm mid way through re-reading (after several years) Island by Aldous Huxley.
Work...work...work. It makes me want to scream and rip out my hair. I'm annoyed because it's been about 4 weeks and I still don't have a set work schedule, one week I could be doing 6 hours the next I could be doing 20 and instead of day shifts that we agreed on he's calling me in to work evenings...at a job 5 miles away! My boss is also a bit of an ass, yeah yeah the typical moan about the authority figure at work, wrong. This guy is a jerk, seriously. The cook left yesterday for a underpaying job just to get away from him. He is bitter, spiteful and snaps at you for nothing, and I mean nothing.
But, on a lighter note I have an interview Tuesday for a job at a new pub/restaurant opening near by so *fingers crossed* if not that then there are other options. But one things for sure, I can't stay there any longer, there are a lot of sharp knives and temptation about.
On to other things. This morning I got my application for my provisional driving liscence. So, once I have that I can start booking lessons, I'm 20 and I've never driven, I feel slightly ashamed saying that.
Swoop and Mookel have new homes with fantastic new mommy's and a truck load of absolutely adorable bucks and does. It was extremely sad to part with them but I just don't have enough hours in the day at the moment to play with them and they really both needed the company of other sqishies.
Things with Curtis are as fantastic as ever! He'll be visiting from the 17/18th December until January 25th = D I seriously can't wait to see him, I'm so excited! We've not had a lot of chance to chat lately but things have been hectic for the both of us, me with work and Uni and Curtis with work, he's been re-hired because of the So.Cal fires so he is up in the foothills doing relief work for the firefighters that are out in So. Cal.
There are loads of other stuff I could chat about here but I'll save it for another post.
<3 - Mood:sleepy
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| I had an interview yesterday for the Why Not Inn, a pub in Essington. It's good pay and a good pub and I think I've pretty much bagged the job. The only thing that's off putting is the distance. It will take me about 2hours by Bus to get to work everyday so it's going to be a 4 hour commute every shift. Yeah I could get there quicker if my parents took me (I don't drive and I don't have a car) but I feel like such a burden if I ask that of them...
I dunno, yay for indicision. - Mood:tired
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