Intentional Living . Self Awareness
Writing the Wrongs of the Year- Lessons for 2018
On December 30, 2017 by adminMaybe it’s the university English language major in me but I couldn’t help but review the lessons of the year in the best way I know how, just as I would a good book.
In my first year of university my lecturer explained that the first step is to draw out the key points, the devices leading to the main themes. The stand outs, the signs, the enlightenments and the sparks. Using devices like characterisation, metaphors, similes, repetition and alliteration (when the same letter or sound is used to begin closely connected words).
Leading into 2018, how have the characters in your life developed? Who brought drama and pessimism. Who gravitated into your life and equally who gravitated out of it. The people who remain in your story, are meant to be there. Which characters remained consistent? Just as every year will continue to do, a series of events demonstrated the consistent people in my life. The people who message on a Wednesday night asking how my week’s been and the ones who message me to get home safe. You are a reflection of the people you surround yourself with so determine whether those around you helped you grow or who contributed to your fall. Note the importance this places on your character’s development on your journey.
Intentional Living . Self Awareness . Travel
From Berlin to Brisbane: Searching for that temporary high
On November 11, 2017 by White Scarf PerspectiveAs I walked through the halls of the corporate building to the kitchen at work I reached up and grabbed my favourite coffee cup. Walking back it got me thinking how such a small gesture could bring me happiness. Then as I looked out at the building next door I wondered if it was the beautiful colours and patterns on the cup, or the caffeine hit. As I glanced at this building next door it sparked in me a resemblance to the gorgeous Berlin Cathedral. Instantly I craved to be there, to be anywhere except at work, at home. Anyone know the feeling?
Self Awareness
CARD FOR HUMANITY – Embracing Your Inner ‘Weird’
On September 13, 2017 by admin
“You are easily the weirdest person I’ve ever met, it took us a year of being together to find out you sleep with a toy purple dinosaur”…
What my partner said sparked a lesson in me about how I embraced my inner-depth and how you can too.
Intentional Living . Social Change
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU ‘GROW UP’?
On August 22, 2017 by adminREMEMBER how excited you’d get as a child when you were asked this? The language we used as if it was undoubtedly going to happen. More often than not we would say multiple things of completely different fields and it didn’t even matter the plausibility of them all actually happening. I don’t know about you but at one stage I was going to become a crime scene investigator, ballerina, and professional singer whilst owning a dog rescue shelter.
The older we got the more our answers would change. Month to month, year to year. And this to us was fine! Because we were so young and we had so much time to figure it out when we reached that place that everyone referred to as ‘older’. We had no shame that it was constantly changing or unknown. Back then when asked the words that resonated with us were ‘want’ and ‘be’. So at what point in our lives does the excitement of not knowing turn to fear and the emphasis changes to the word ‘older’. Why is it that when we’re asked at the mere age of sixteen when doing senior subject selection does our excitement change to angst of not knowing?