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.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Words I live by

In life, one must have shock absorbers. Because the path of life is filled with pot-holes, and without shock-absorbers an unexpected pot-hole is likely to destroy your vehicle and take one off your chosen path. Therefore, be sure to save a little room for disappointment: hope for the best but expect the worst, it is this philosophy that becomes your shock absorbers; allowing you to bounce right over and through any unexpected and unpleasant events.
M.D. Mothoagae

Take a little time to sit quietly and think about your life, who you are, what you want, and what impact you want to leave on the world. Think and decide who you are and what you are about and act according to that. Without careful consideration we are little more than animals.
S. H. Mothoagae

People must do what they must at any given moment. What other’s fail to understand is that based on the information you have, and who you are, you can only do what you must. And the truth is that this doesn’t always suit others, and in fact may be harmful to them.
Mokopi Shale

Try to know what you know and know it well, lest you forget what is important to you, what must be done, what needs to be done, and what you want to do.
Mokopi Shale

Do not take being flavour of the month seriously because fads always pass. Always be yourself and never allow yourself to be overtaken by popularity, admiration or fawning. Surround yourself with good friends, but have the good sense to know who your friends really are.
Gabonewe Mothoagae
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