Pay attention to life...

To many life goes by blindly, and no-one really pays attention to their lives and what is happening to them. And perhaps this has been my fault in life, a kind of hyper-awareness to the fact that I am living life, and that there are lessons that we need to learn and without an awereness of this, one can be doomed to repeat their mistakes.

This blog, is dedicated to the woman who made who I am. When I was growing up I had a seriously antagonistic relationship with my mother…and let me be honest with my siblings as well. A more angst-filled child never existed, I remember hours spent hiding in the closet, sucking on my fingers contemplating life and what it meant. My earliest memory is of me walking around my family’s seat in Waterval in the Northwest, feeling completely abandoned, so heartbroken and alone. It is a very dark memory that haunts me to this day. I must have been around four or five years old, and I just have no idea why I would have felt that way. Church was a deeply felt event, where the lyrics to the hymns moved me to ecstasy, and every year I wondered why humanity was the way it was and they acted they way they did, and why we just felt so helpless about being human and allowed ourselves to be so evil towards each other and do the horrible things that we did.

It was the hours I spent alone contemplating who I was and what I had done that solidified this aspect of my personality, hours that I have my mother Seipati. H. Mothoagae to thank for. It was her who after a spate of deep naughtiness would banish me to my room to go and think about what I had done, and whether that served me.

This blog is dedicated to these musings, and what I have learned about life, love and spirituality. If you wonder about the same, and are as given to introspection as I am, then this should prove interesting for you. If you are interested in the musings and the viewpoints of other, no matter how strange, than this is the blog for you. This is about what I think, what I have come to accept as true of life, the world, humanity and spirituality.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

What i know for sure.

  1. We all have choices. These choices are often the opportunity we are given to change our lives. It is important to know what the choices on offer are, to consider the outcomes that they bring, to consider the outcome you want, and to make the choice that best suites your plan. Our lives are what they are because we chose that they will be that way. Don't be the victim of a life lived through choices you refused to partcipate in, be an active participant in your life - make a choice. Be aware of the life you live, so that you may live the life you want.
  2. There is good in all of us. We all have good in us, but some of us just refuse to allow it to be the trait about ourselves that others experience first. Others of us believe that we are evil and there is no hope for redemption. But, being good is an active human trait, it must be chosen and it must be practiced. You choose to be good and you choose what this means, and you act it out through the way you behave to others and to yourself. We choose who we are, so if you are evil it because you choose; if you are good it is because you choose.
  3. There is greatness in all of us. Unfortunately some of us are so busy looking at the 'other' - our friend, or sister, or brother, colleague etc - that we fail to see what greatness is ours. We are not the same, we are not gifted the same, we are not gifted to achieve the same thing, in the same field, in the same way. Self-exploration and self-knowledge is important, because this introspection allows you to understand where your gifts lie, to explore and grow them and realise them in the physical plain. So, stop looking at others and look at yourself, and focus on what you can do for you, through your gifts.
  4. We are here to re-member who we really are. We are here to remember that we are God, that is the whole purpose of life. Think back to the times when you experienced ecstatic happiness and what this was about, it was probably when you felt loved and appreciated and part of a bigger whole than who you are. This my friend is God; for he is more than who we are, is true love – i.e. unjudgmental, accepting, encouraging, joyful.
  5. It's all you. You create the reality you wish by accepting it as truth. So, choose only the outcome you seek, accept only the outcome you seek, see only the outcome you seek.
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