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  • November 26, 2015 at 5:29 pm in reply to: What are you feeling right now? #88368
    jock
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    Anita
    you can’t beat her
    just try to thrash her
    and she’ll mashya
    a superhero
    let’s have a beero!

    November 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Happy Thanksgiving! #88365
    jock
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    that sounds sad anita
    I thought you had a partner. if you don’t mind me saying.

    November 26, 2015 at 5:17 pm in reply to: What are you feeling right now? #88364
    jock
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    focus on helping others you say
    stop brooding over your loveless day
    listen to their cries for help
    put yourself
    in their shelf
    try to see
    with empathy
    they are just like you
    they need love too
    and they want an end
    to their desire to end
    reassurance
    that their OK
    OK?

    November 26, 2015 at 5:11 pm in reply to: What are you feeling right now? #88362
    jock
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    quiet again
    on tiny Buddha
    not a soul
    nor a saint
    tempted to feel
    self-pity
    but know I’m not
    the only lonely

    I’m getting tired
    of new age wisdom
    present moment
    just a moment!
    can’t you think of
    anything else?
    words get weary
    oh so easy
    we all need
    to go beyond

    I reread Tolle’s story
    of his awakening
    Try to make his
    apply to me.
    Someone
    point me
    in the direction
    I need to go
    I feel I’m wasting
    my life away.

    November 26, 2015 at 12:03 am in reply to: my story, your story #88335
    jock
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    You’re so much like Buddha!

    You look a bit like him in your avatar, Anita. 🙂

    November 25, 2015 at 8:05 pm in reply to: my story, your story #88304
    jock
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    thanks for sharing that email anita. Very personal part of your story.
    I don’t think I’d be suited to living in a remote countryside area like yourself.The city is a good place for loners like me to hide and not notice how lonely we are. (but I am in fact not alone anyway)
    as much as I like big trees and green rainforest type areas like the ones they have in northern Australia, I don’t want to be there to live. I live in a southern city of austrlia.

    November 25, 2015 at 6:27 pm in reply to: my story, your story #88298
    jock
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    Anita
    I’ve been having computer problems, internet connection is vvvery sssslow and keyboard is just about f****!
    happy coming thanksgiving.
    do you ever miss LA or the city, by the way?

    November 25, 2015 at 6:24 pm in reply to: my story, your story #88297
    jock
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    The truth depends on the author. Two witnesses can give different accounts of the same incident. We notice different things.
    We gonna differ here Anita but I still respect your view. How’s that for broad-mindedness! 🙂

    November 25, 2015 at 6:19 pm in reply to: my story, your story #88296
    jock
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    Part of healing then, is to look at the past with fresh eyes. We did our best at the time. What can we learn from past events? Forgive ourselves for unwise choices. Focus on some happier memories. You might even want to pat yourself on the back for surviving some tough times. As I get older, I feel that life is a kind of last man/woman standing survival reality show. I’m lucky to get to 57. Some people don’t even get that far. Lucky to have relative health and live in one of the safest countries in the world. My current challenge is to look at my future with fresh eyes too. Never too late to have goals. Maybe I can make a difference to someone’s life, no matter how small. We have to be happy with small successes.

    November 25, 2015 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Does being authentic really work? #88294
    jock
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    I don’t want to argue about this any more. yes I know where you are coming from and you may well be right. Then again,it just might be that both of us are right too.

    November 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm in reply to: Does being authentic really work? #88289
    jock
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    OK what you say makes a lot of sense. And I’ve taken it to heart so don’t worry. Thanks.
    But I’m still stuck on defending my original premise; that is: that transparency at work can get you in trouble. My colleagues made fun of me because I was an ex-teacher doing a menial job. if I hadn’t told them I was an ex-teacher, I could’ve avoided such teasing.

    November 25, 2015 at 12:25 pm in reply to: Does being authentic really work? #88280
    jock
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    it’s very authentic anita, very you and I can just imagine you doing it.
    You made the part sound where you were unemployed for 5 years, to your advantage. For me, I’d be afraid to admit such a thing because they might think “oh he’s desperate then, he’ll do anything we ask to keep his job”. It’s debatable whether such transparency is good for you in the long run.

    November 24, 2015 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Does being authentic really work? #88261
    jock
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    Ok here’s a scenario then
    you have just started at a company/NGO and there is a meeting on your first day. You are expected to introduce yourself and you are encouraged to talk about what you were doing before you started there. a short summary of your career, so as the rest of the staff have an idea of who you are.
    (in this case you don’t want to let the others know that you have been a teacher for most of that time)

    November 24, 2015 at 10:27 pm in reply to: This thing they call self-love #88260
    jock
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    No storm this afternoon. Still sunny.

    new year’s resolution?
    is to not promise myself something I can’t deliver

    November 24, 2015 at 6:11 pm in reply to: This thing they call self-love #88247
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    I’m fine and sunny with a shower or two in the afternoon. Possibly a storm. And you?

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