Topic of March: Being A Message
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February 29, 2008
February 26, 2008
When We Believe
When we believe in something we believe in doing it right. To believe in something we have to know ourselves, where we are coming from and where we are heading. When we believe in the good, the good will believe in us and when we believe in freedom we will become the freedom we want to feel.
What does it mean to believe in something? To me believing is as personal as it can be. Two people can never believe in the exact same things and the footprints we make will never look the same. We are very different as the same time as we have almost everything in common.
I do believe in that we need something to believe in though, whatever that something might be. Believing is caring and walking the extra mile to make a difference. Believing is being honest and giving up things that doesn't 'talk to us' anymore. Believing is accepting change and change for what we believe in. When we believe in something we take a stand.
What does it mean to believe in something? To me believing is as personal as it can be. Two people can never believe in the exact same things and the footprints we make will never look the same. We are very different as the same time as we have almost everything in common.
I do believe in that we need something to believe in though, whatever that something might be. Believing is caring and walking the extra mile to make a difference. Believing is being honest and giving up things that doesn't 'talk to us' anymore. Believing is accepting change and change for what we believe in. When we believe in something we take a stand.
February 4, 2008
The Lift Game
The Lift Game is a game that we can play wherever we are and whatever we do. All that is needed are other people. The game is all about making people happy and the more depressed or angry the person we meet is the higher scores we get when we find a way to lift his or her day and make happiness out of those negative feelings.
Yesterday I had a really hard target in a supermarket, but I finally succeeded when we both – the woman behind the counter and I – realized that it is much nicer to be friends than to be enemies. I asked if she had a tough day and she told me about her morning that didn’t start very well, and we started sharing all things that can go wrong every morning if we let them to. When I left I felt like I had won the lottery. Not because I was the one making her smile but because it is so easy to feel happy and fully alive. All we need is a little courage and a willingness to prove that this world is a wonderful place to live in.
To be hostile and ‘closed’ is to make enemies and to open up and take every opportunity to really see and meet someone is to make friends. We can have friends in every corner of the world if we want to. It is all up to us to define the word friends and to walk that extra mile to make it something that is ours to keep
Yesterday I had a really hard target in a supermarket, but I finally succeeded when we both – the woman behind the counter and I – realized that it is much nicer to be friends than to be enemies. I asked if she had a tough day and she told me about her morning that didn’t start very well, and we started sharing all things that can go wrong every morning if we let them to. When I left I felt like I had won the lottery. Not because I was the one making her smile but because it is so easy to feel happy and fully alive. All we need is a little courage and a willingness to prove that this world is a wonderful place to live in.
To be hostile and ‘closed’ is to make enemies and to open up and take every opportunity to really see and meet someone is to make friends. We can have friends in every corner of the world if we want to. It is all up to us to define the word friends and to walk that extra mile to make it something that is ours to keep
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