Foreword: I know these aren't works of art but they were fun to write. I felt all creative and stuff.
When you open an unknown door
You may find a scary monster
But you'll learn to fight him off
Then you'll get the ice cream he's guarding.
When you fall from a tree
You graze your knee
When you fall from the pedistall
You get your wings back.
If you plunge into the ocean
You'll get your fins
If you leap into the sky
You can pick up your cape.
Superheros can fly over clouds
But I have a plane
Superheros can pick up trucks
But I have a crane
I'm a superhero too see?
Some unintentional rhyming in there :)
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Living in Nature
I love nature. It’s no secret, its the reason I donate to Greenpeace and the WWF every month and the reason I’m a vegetarian. I just like to look. Stare at it and soak up every little bit of it.
On the one hand I would love to live in the country as your surrounded by those lovely sights and its so green. On the other hand I would love to live in the city to feel the buzz of people living their lives. Because people are nature too in their own right, we may not be green but we are certainly part of nature. But you wouldn’t see any hills, there wouldn’t be many trees and a lot of the time the nearest you’ll get to nature is a park nearby.
This is why I don’t like living in a housing estate, the houses dominate the landscape, I am literally surrounded by houses. It makes it hard to experience nature, when all the houses are blocking the stars and moon at night and blocking out the evening sun. You have to ask why people feel the need to live compacted together, there are some clear reasons but it removes some excellent sights. I could quite happily sit and stare at the stars for hours just thinking about things, anything at all, trying to wrap my head around how big a world, galaxy, universe it is. Being around nature help’s to block out all the negative things happening in the world and show you the true things in life which should always be there since it’s natures right to be around us.
When I have a house I’m going to grow a large tree and watch it’s branches reach for the sky to grasp at the sunlight, and remember what a beautiful world we live in.
On the one hand I would love to live in the country as your surrounded by those lovely sights and its so green. On the other hand I would love to live in the city to feel the buzz of people living their lives. Because people are nature too in their own right, we may not be green but we are certainly part of nature. But you wouldn’t see any hills, there wouldn’t be many trees and a lot of the time the nearest you’ll get to nature is a park nearby.
This is why I don’t like living in a housing estate, the houses dominate the landscape, I am literally surrounded by houses. It makes it hard to experience nature, when all the houses are blocking the stars and moon at night and blocking out the evening sun. You have to ask why people feel the need to live compacted together, there are some clear reasons but it removes some excellent sights. I could quite happily sit and stare at the stars for hours just thinking about things, anything at all, trying to wrap my head around how big a world, galaxy, universe it is. Being around nature help’s to block out all the negative things happening in the world and show you the true things in life which should always be there since it’s natures right to be around us.
When I have a house I’m going to grow a large tree and watch it’s branches reach for the sky to grasp at the sunlight, and remember what a beautiful world we live in.
Run through the Forest.
You can tiptoe through life down the trodden path to ensure nothing out of the ordinary happens. But sometimes you just have to sprint through the forest and hope you won’t run into a tree. - View on overthinking and questioning things to much in life.
Today I’ve been considering te notion of questioning our actions and over-thinking them to the point of it being ridiculous. A lot of the time we can do things without hinking or do the total opposite and overthink things far to much. There is rarely a middle ground.
I have questioned things I do very often, thinking ‘Is this what I want to do? Is it a ‘me’ kind of thing to do? Am I comftable with this situation or is it out of my comfort zone?’ I’ve rarely been out of my comfort zone. When I am, I’m scared, but as a firm believer in doing things that scare you I go on and hope to not run into any trees. I take that sprint into the forest to see whats off the path I’m on and sometimes you find some things that you never expected. This doesn’t mean that I spend a long time wondering if I want to do it and getting confused…you just run.
But everyone is a little confused, our personalities change so often and develop over time - especially when you’re young - that it’s difficult to ever define the things you would ‘normally’ do. It would hinder you, make you less open to new experiences. So you have to stop questioning things sometimes to become open to new things. When I say that I don’t mean bad things, illegal things as they aren’t going to do you any favours but things which will improve your life.
I believe there is a number of people out there who need to question less things and do things they may be unsure of because you can be surprised, I know I have been by some of the things I have done. As it can result in not just letting yourself live your life.
Today I’ve been considering te notion of questioning our actions and over-thinking them to the point of it being ridiculous. A lot of the time we can do things without hinking or do the total opposite and overthink things far to much. There is rarely a middle ground.
I have questioned things I do very often, thinking ‘Is this what I want to do? Is it a ‘me’ kind of thing to do? Am I comftable with this situation or is it out of my comfort zone?’ I’ve rarely been out of my comfort zone. When I am, I’m scared, but as a firm believer in doing things that scare you I go on and hope to not run into any trees. I take that sprint into the forest to see whats off the path I’m on and sometimes you find some things that you never expected. This doesn’t mean that I spend a long time wondering if I want to do it and getting confused…you just run.
But everyone is a little confused, our personalities change so often and develop over time - especially when you’re young - that it’s difficult to ever define the things you would ‘normally’ do. It would hinder you, make you less open to new experiences. So you have to stop questioning things sometimes to become open to new things. When I say that I don’t mean bad things, illegal things as they aren’t going to do you any favours but things which will improve your life.
I believe there is a number of people out there who need to question less things and do things they may be unsure of because you can be surprised, I know I have been by some of the things I have done. As it can result in not just letting yourself live your life.
The Root of Happiness
Today I relaised how much my feelings towards things in life has changed over time. When your perspectives change and your motives for doing some things are different it can help you to feel a whole lot better about the way your life is. For example I would really love to visit America, but my motives for doing so have developed over time, which has really made that my own. That feeling is my own and that idea is my own as it’s grown from that original thought.
To put it one way, the idea is a seed, and anything can be a seed, anything that might happen to you which makes you stop and think. But what really makes that idea something special is nourishing it and feeding it. Just like how you would water a flower, you feed the idea and mould it to be part of you and make it something which drives you.
Just as that inital idea of going to America has become somthing so much more, a desire to explore and take on every new opportunity. But most importantly it’s made me realise that you only get the most from life when you step outside of your box, because thats the only way you can expand your box until it’s full of all the wonderful things on offer. And thats such a good way to live and it can make you so happy. It’s scary. I’m not going to lie. When I’ve done things I’m unsure of I was terrified but at the end of it I was so glad I had done it. It’s a way to find out the things you love most and a way of opening your eye’s to the world. It’s the root to understanding. And if you make the effort to understand people and accept them for who they are, it will make them feel good but it will also help you to feel good. It’s a win-win situation. And if they are unhappy then you can do what you can to make them feel better just by being there and showing them they are an awesome person.
Enjoying what’s on offer is part of being happy. But you also have to be happy with the person you are. That’s something I learnt the hard way. When you feel like your not enough your not going to want to get out into the world. But when you realise ‘I am very happy with the person I am and I’m pretty damn awesome’ then you can get on with living your life.
To put it one way, the idea is a seed, and anything can be a seed, anything that might happen to you which makes you stop and think. But what really makes that idea something special is nourishing it and feeding it. Just like how you would water a flower, you feed the idea and mould it to be part of you and make it something which drives you.
Just as that inital idea of going to America has become somthing so much more, a desire to explore and take on every new opportunity. But most importantly it’s made me realise that you only get the most from life when you step outside of your box, because thats the only way you can expand your box until it’s full of all the wonderful things on offer. And thats such a good way to live and it can make you so happy. It’s scary. I’m not going to lie. When I’ve done things I’m unsure of I was terrified but at the end of it I was so glad I had done it. It’s a way to find out the things you love most and a way of opening your eye’s to the world. It’s the root to understanding. And if you make the effort to understand people and accept them for who they are, it will make them feel good but it will also help you to feel good. It’s a win-win situation. And if they are unhappy then you can do what you can to make them feel better just by being there and showing them they are an awesome person.
Enjoying what’s on offer is part of being happy. But you also have to be happy with the person you are. That’s something I learnt the hard way. When you feel like your not enough your not going to want to get out into the world. But when you realise ‘I am very happy with the person I am and I’m pretty damn awesome’ then you can get on with living your life.
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