The Flagrance of Happiness

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Being away on my beach holiday put me into "reflect-mode".

"Sitting in my room, with the beach right outside, listening to the seagulls has opened my eyes to the realities around me...watching Love Actually actually helped. Listening to the wind dance with the ocean making melodies uneasily repeated sent me back to a time when my mind was more open & receptive to nature in every form. What I learnt was that we need to accept that opportunities come sporadically. Chances are even more rare. We ought to think less, and feel more. Accept the things we cannot change, embrace the beauty, and (most importantly) we need to learn to love with all our heart! Essentially, it means lowering your guard with people but being holistic in your approach. It means living in the moment - acting on your feelings when your heart so deeply yearns for someone, no matter the consequences because they will work themselves out and lessons will reveal themselves. It means letting go of past hurt and giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. It means loving who you are no matter the flaws you can see - those flaws don't define you but you can determine how much you let it define your path."

What I really want you, the reader, to get from this is that we need to live in the present. Don't let life pass us by while we're trying to fix things that happened in the past or understand them. Sure, we can reflect on them, but not too profoundly for fear of opening up a can of worms. We need to let love enter our hearts from all angles. You'll see that love shows itself in the most bizarre forms, and when you least expect it...

I suffered from one particular problem: I struggled & thus couldn't love myself & therefore I couldn't love anyone else nor could I accept that others loved me. And now, I'm slowly beginning to see that I, if not for who I am but for my humanoid structure, am as deserving of love (both from myself & from others) as the neighbour & her fanciful flurries of furry pets!

* Life is like a bloody good book: you have to suffer the technical stuff to get to the juicy bits!

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