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My Impending Empty Nest
My impending empty nest: Thoughts on what life would be when all my kids finally leave home.
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In Pursuit Of Happiness
One thing we all clamour for is happiness. We are all in pursuit of happiness. In our longing to be happy, we often forget to be happy. The elusive nature of happiness grasp our attention and we devise numerous means of achieving this ultimate state of being.
However, what many of us do not realise is that the decision to be happy depends entirely on us. We (individually) decide what happiness meant to us. It is within us all, we only need to carve ways round it.
Our States Of Mind
A negative state of mind and a positive state of mind are more or less what determines happiness. Invariably, when we are stressed, anxious and afraid we remain in a negative frame of mind. It is not healthy to remain in this state for too long, but sadly many of us find it difficult not to. For many, this is a long boring and sad rabbit hole that sucks not only energy but any glimpse of happiness out of us.
(more…)45 Lessons I Learnt At 45
Hitting the age of 45 feels surreal to me. In my mind flashes of memories, long-lived filtered through. In reality, four decades and a half aren’t that long. It wasn’t long ago I viewed forty as a milestone. It felt like days ago that I turned forty and here I am at forty-five, five years away from FIFTY!!!
I was a teenager a few years ago looking through the lens of life wishing for freedom. Planning my life ahead of me, sieving through the bad eggs, I was sure of how long it would take before arriving at forty.
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