twenty one one...so it begins

Twenty one one! So it begins another year for target setting if you that way inclined or just for living if that’s your thing too. I cant sit here and tell you one way is more right than the other.

Ow mates, this is going to be one of those philosophical types, cos man that’s been my mood for the last few weeks…and it’s the beginning of a new decade so I am allowed to not so?

Greetings dear friends and people who may not like me that much but still read this ;) it is my hope that inspite of whatever ups and downs we may have faced in 2010, by the fact that we are wherever we are and reading this means that we had the strength from wherever to persevere and see it through! May the year ahead be absolutely everything you make it. I know I am stating the obvious here and we are all old enough to know this, but no matter how hard we try to make sure we prevent it, sh it will definitely happen, our reaction to it determines how our hour, day, week, month or year turns out.

Over the December period and most of last year I did a lot of reflection and it made me smile. I actually love my life. I am not shoving anything in anyones face or anything like that. I just took a step back and thought about it…many an outsider would look at me and think shoo what a looser! Or what a fatty, or shoo bra is losing his hair, shoo bra is 35 and no girlfriend, qualified accountant and no job, whats wrong with him…or…or… but inspite of that I wake up every day and thank my maker for nothing else other than the fact that its my life and I guess I have the ability to live it how I am allowed to in a manner that pleases me. Not too many people in this world have that ability…little things, roof, food, friends, legs, hands, eyes, ears, mind (even though the last few are struggling)

How often have we heard this question being asked: “What’s the meaning of life?” I don’t know anyone who has been given a satisfactory answer or anyone who can claim to have the answer to that. And maybe that’s just that. There is no universal answer to the meaning of life question. Perhaps we are all here to define a meaning for our own lives as guided by our maker if that’s your thing, which I believe it should be irrespective of who you believe your maker is. The older I get or the more time I have to reflect, I realize that I am happiest with people, listening, learning, watching rugby and doing my little bit here and there where I can and communicating to get more people aware of what is going on out there, not that I know everything but each one teach one I guess….So that’s my meaning in life engaging and if possible shoot making someone laugh even if its at me and earning money somewhere so it can enable me…not define me ;)

Another thing that I am realizing more and more is that we need God in our lives. But I say that with qualification. I am not asking for us to turn into religious freaks because I believe the world has enough of them, people who are all too ready to tell another they are no good because they don’t believe in the same things that they do. Believing in God…any god if its done correctly can never be a wrong thing. Most of us, if not all of us, were raised with some sort of religious/spiritual grounding and we all turned out ok, we learnt the difference between wrong and right, good and bad and most importantly how to relate and treat others. The best teaching I ever learnt and even though I may falter at times, was the teaching of: “do unto others as you would like them to do unto you”. This I learnt when I was a wee lad. If you read and understand that and hold it dear, how many people would be murdered, cheated on, insulted in this world? I am pretty far from God as I sit here. I was raised a Christian, but I struggle with random things and maybe its because I don’t know or only know half the story, things like Adam and Eve (on day 6) from what I remember had 3 kids first Cain and Abel and then Seth…all boys. Cain killed Abel. Cain had a wife and they had a kid Enoch…now where this other wife person come from I ask because all this is before there is any mention of any sons and daughters…anyway as I was saying I don’t have all the answers, and yes many of the worlds evils have been in the name of religion and MAN’s interpretation, we take the holocaust, apartheid, suicide bombings, Waco massacres (David Koresh) to name but a few…many from way back when. But the essence of God as we are taught when we are younger, is about less self and more the world and others and that’s what is really needed in this world. We are all so tending more to self and less the world and others…its fast forward to self destruction! I look at this continent for starters, wait even this country, not just the people in power, but all of us. ITS ALL ABOUT MEEE MEE MEE, taking rotten chickens, and treating them and repackaging them to be resold, who cares who gets sick as long as I don’t have a loss and thus I will have my fat bonus…find a greater being to believe in and follow their teachings, most of them are very similar in any case!

Last thing is start with ME. We are so quick to point out others issues and flaws thinking we are perfect, newsflash we are all soo flawed, I am not saying dwell on it and let it consume, but just bear it in mind. I for one am so F#@ked in a good many ways!! But I know this man, everyday is a challenge to rectify, will I get it right, ehh not so much but acknowledging helps me accept flaws in others…

I don’t know what it is, but I am so positive about the year that it 20 1 1, and come the 31st Dec 2011, and I realize that that optimism/positivity is misplaced, well then if I lived to that day, then there is always 2012 to make right the wrongs of 2011. I know putting it out there has clearly jinxed it, but what will be will be isn’t it?!

SincerelyWish you all the best man, because there is absolutely nothing stopping you from achieving what you want to achieve, or at least giving it your best shot, because at the end of the day if you didn’t get it, well then it wasn’t meant to be, it will be a bummer, but another better thing might just be there.

Ok enough ☺ happy Tuesday people, sorry about al the birthdays I missed end of last year, hope you all had absolute rippers. I am going to start off fresh with this years birthdays:
1st Marc D
4th Sengetile
6th Ebbs and Ingrid
10th Chantal
11th Pops and Presh

And that’s me for now, remember always do you man, life is way too short to live someone elses life!!

Much respect

Y