Being positive is more like a permanent disposition to me, it has to do with one's outlook on life & take on whatever happens to be happening. My way is to be real with what is & I tend to look for the gift in disasters, sometimes it takes a while to emerge which doesn't matter, the persistency of looking does.

I think it is important to be the best I can be, which to me translates into being real. That said, I do have the courtesy of keeping a low profile when I'm not at my best & for some odd reason choose to wallow in misery. Nobody deserves the drag of being around a whiner. That's about as far as I'm willing to go, being a source of happiness for others sounds like a daunting responsibility to take on. I'll settle for cracking a smile on your face now & then..

    There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
    Collette





  

   

   the reluctance to share recourses.

   it saddens me that a child dies of hunger every six seconds &

   one billion people do not have clean water to drink

   in a world wealthy beyond belief.

  photo: water to the world from www.ashesandsnow.org

For real?  I'd have to pass. The next months are offering me a great opportunity to train for a new line of work in Human Resources & I'm soo excited! I love learning & I can't wait to fill my brain with new knowledge & getting more tools to play with, yay! Not even the fact that this incarnated Macbabe fan is going to be firing up the PC! & diving into the world of word & other unknown microsoft entities on a daily base, is causing her to pause. I might involuntarily break out in hives due to excessive PC exposure & have to apply ointments, but I'll cope. 

A new friend who took the time to not only really listen to me, but also shared some stories from her own life, with much resemblance to my own experiences. Her empathy & her choice to trust me with her personal pain touched my heart. Sometimes sharing holds the greatest comfort & makes the feeling of fundamental aloneness embraceable.

I spent time last week delighting in many a short film during the 20'th something OFF, Odense Film Festival. It's amazing how strong an impact a story of 6 min's can have & how deeply moved I would feel coming out of the cinema, having to sit quietly for a while after to digest the narratives. It struck me how several of the films told the story of how a single moment, a decision, one mistake, can become a pivotal & life changing event in a human's existence.

One of the films, Side by Side, told a real story about two neighbours who hadn't spoken with each other for almost 20 years due to a simple misunderstanding. Both of them feeling sure they knew the truth & never bothered to investigate further. Instead they put up 2 hedges between them to ensure they wouldn't have to communicate. The story unravels what really happened & ends with one of the men apologizing to the other, who instantly forgives him. That one opened up a flood of tears & a feeling of gratitude, of reassurement that essentiel goodness is the heart of human nature.

A film maker shared waiting time till the next screening & whilst, he entertained with telling stories. Stories that had captured him, or merely a sequence in the story that he felt had something deeper hidden he wanted to explore visually. His passion for his work & the compassion he felt for people in the stories he shared, touched me & made me feel yet again how creativity is at the core of one's life force.

No thing moves me more than another human's true presence. The willingness & the capacity to open the heart to whatever is, sharing passion, pain, loneliness, the pure delight of being alive & the comfort of silence when words become redundant. We are amazing creatures who shine so brilliantly bright when we give each other the present of presence. Love, truth & beauty holds their breath when souls dance in the intimate delicacy of reality shared.

photo from flickr by flavio