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A blog with a twist. Attempting to shape in words the tangled web of thoughts in my head, but always ending each post in the form of a positive conclusion, intended to reach out and help people looking for inspiration and advice. So yea....here goes....

Sunday, 31 May 2015

あなただからこそ、特別だ!

*A special thankyou to Seb and Aya chan for the translation, a kindness I will never forget, I feel so honored to have my blog in Japanese* <3


「ノックノック」
「誰なのだろう。」
「あなたとまったく違っている人。」
「またか。でも昨日も先週もノックしたでしょう。本当は毎日ノックしているでしょう。教えてほしい、この世に私と同じ人がいるだろうか。」
「いいえ、いないよ。」
「だよね。じゃ、またね。」
*ドアを永遠にボルトで締める*


新しい仕事。新しい責任。新しい限界がさらに広げられる。毎日、見られている。毎日そんなに詳しくないことに対して試されている。毎日想像できるはずのないことに対して利用されている。この人たちはどうしてこんな風にできるの?


休みが必要だった。新しい人、新しい場所、新しい考え方。変!不思議!この人たちはどんな人たちだろう。



仕事に戻った。日常に戻った。慣れしたしんだ生活に戻った。。。自分の周りを見てみる、一体どうしたの?この人たちはどんな人たちだろうか。


もしもし?どこにいるの?誰かいるの?私と同じ人がいるの?



新しいシチュエーションに身をおいたことがある?それに対して寂しいという感じたことがあった?疎外感を感じた?昔と同じようなこと、便利さ、相似性、よく知っていることを望んでいるの?




もちろん、皆こんなことを体験したことがあるはず。それは、昇格することだったり、出張、旅行などで海外へ行くこと、大好きな人と離れて遥か遠くへ引越しすることなど。最近の私の人生は毎日がチャレンジだったと言える。その上、自分の目標、自分が達成しようとしているものの主な理由は自分と同じシチュエーションにいる、同じことをしている他の人と共有されていないといつも思い出させられてしまっている。




そしてこの新しいシチュエーションの中毎日成長している。そしてこの思いの主なテーマは何で私はそんなに違っているの?ということ。



2年半前にイギリスに離れた。そして離れた理由のひとつは、こんなにも多様で、異文化が溢れている、考えの自由をもっている国でさえ、私と同じ考え方を持っている人や場所を見つけることができなかったからだ。ただ、それは世界を体験する機会を与えてくれたのではないかな?また世界はこんなにも広いのだから、きっと私と同じ価値と徳性を持っている人がいるはずだから。



そして、私は行きました。




そして世界を旅行して色々な国に住んでみた今でも、この状況はまだ変わっていない。どこに行っても、皆は違っていて、私と同じ人は誰もいない。




それで、自問し始めている。
他の国に行って同じ考えの人を見つけることにまだ希望を持てばいいか。
あるいは人と合わせるために自分を変えるべきなのか。何かをするために自分の理由を変えるべきなのか。、もしそんなことをしたら、人生にはもっと意味を成すかもしれない。
 

でも、よく考えてみてから、私自身の答えはただ「だめだ」ということだ。




外を見てください。雨は降って、木に水を与える雨であるべきだ。木は果物を成長させるべき木だ。果物は自分たちの関心を引き付けるために、甘くて美味しい果物であるべきだ。我々は種をまいて生活環境を再び始めるためるべきだ。




鳥は空が白むと美しい和音で空気を授けるために鳥であるべきだ。




山は水を流し出し川と湖を作って、我々に飲み水を与えるための、山であるべきだ。




そして、星は願いを叶っていただくことを信じて、実を言うと力を分かっていない星の美しさを見るために、星であるべきだ。




 雨、山、鳥、山、星など、など、そちのものは全て同じことをやって、そのことをやって同じ理由を持てば、世界はついに終わるようになる。


私からのメッセージ。

たとえ誰もあなたのやっていることをやらなくても、あなたと同じように考えなくても、あなたと同じ価値を持たなくても、心から自分らしく、特別な自分として生きていってください。


これは世界からあなたへプレゼントだから。このプレゼントを提供したら、世界はそれを返してくれる。




そして、誰もがあなたのことを理解していないと感じるときは、この言葉を思い出して。


私はここに一人でいる。それは一人になるためではなく、自分らしく輝くためだ。
私は誰もが話を聞きたくない追放人ではない。

私はユニークであり、そのユニークさをメッセージとして伝えるためにいる。
この魂、この考えのもと生まれてきた。皆と同じようになるために変わるのではなく、世界をより良い場所にするために。




そして私はここにいる。これが私の考え、感じ方。そしてこれが私のしたいこと、どうしてそうしたいかである。これは私からみんなへのギフトである。



With my hands, I give you my heart, and crown it with love.

自分の手で自分の心をあげて、愛でそれに王冠をいただかせる。


Friday, 8 May 2015

You are special, because you are YOU.

'Knock knock' 
'Who's there?'
'Someone completely different to you' 
'Again? But you knocked here yesterday, and last week, in fact, you guys are always knocking at my door. Tell me, Is there anyone out there similar to me by any chance?' 
'No' 
'Right. Ok. Good bye.' 
*locks and bolts the door forever*


New job. New responsibilities. New limits being pushed. Everyday I'm being watched. Everyday I'm being tested in something I know very little about. Everyday I'm being exploited to things that I couldn't have imagined happened before. How can these people do it like that? 

Quick holiday needed. new people, new place, new way of thinking. Strange, weird, what are these people all about?

Back to work, back to normality, back to what I'm used to.....I look around me, but what an earth? What are THESE people all about too?

Hello? Where are you? Anyone one out there? Anyone just like me?


Have you ever put yourself in a new situation and felt alone? Alienated? Wish things were like they used to be, comfort, similarity, and familiarity, the same old same old?

Yes of course we have all been there. Whether it is being promoted, or going away to foreign places, or even moving far far away from everyone you know and love. I can say that in my recent life, everyday has been a challenge so far. And On top of that, I'm being constantly reminded that my purpose, my main reason behind everything that I'm trying to accomplish, seems not to be shared by any other person in the same situation as me, doing the same thing. 

And so With everyday that I'm growing in these new situations in my life, the same thoughts keep appearing. And the main theme of these thoughts are ..... Why am I so bloody different?

I left England 2 and a half years ago. And I must admit, one of the reasons why I decided to go was, even in such a diverse, multi cultural and open thinking country, I couldn't find anyone or place with similar thinking to me. I thought, well it's time to explore the world I live in while I can, and on the way I'm bound to find people who have similar values and morals to me, the world is such a big place after all.

And so off I went.

And now I can safely say that, after traveling the world and living in multiple different countries, that situation still hasn't changed. Everywhere I go, everyone is so different and no one is the same as me. 

Then I start to ask myself these sort of questions.

Should I keep moving and still have hope that I will find like minded people?

or

Should I change myself to fit in with the crowd I happen to currently be in at that particular time? Change my reason for doing things? If I did, Maybe life would make so much more sense.....

But After some contemplation, my answer was only this. 

NO

Look outside your window. The rain must be rain, to fall and water the trees. The trees must be trees to grow the fruit. The fruit then must be fruit, sweet and delicious,  to attract our attention to eat it.  We must be us to drop the seeds to start the cycle all over again.


The birds must be birds in order to bless the air with beautiful harmony at the break of dawn. 

The mountains must be mountains in order to allow the water to flow down, creating rivers and lakes from which we can all drink from and thrive. 

And the stars must be stars, so we can gaze at their beauty, never truly understanding their power, but having faith that they will make all our wishes come true.

If they all did the SAME thing, and had the SAME reasons for doing them, the world would eventually stop turning. 

So here's my message to you. 

Even if no one else does what you do, thinks like you do, or shares the same values as you, from the bottom of your heart, BE  YOURSELF. your special self. Do what feels right to you and what makes you most happy, without caring if it is similar to what other people are doing. 

This is your gift to the world. Give it and the world will give back to you.

And at those times when you feel that there is no one that understands you, remember these words:

I am here alone. Not to be alone. but to shine with what i am. 
I am not an outcast that no one wants to listen to. 
I am a unique individual, with a unique purpose and a unique message to spread.  
I was born with this soul, this way of thinking, not to change it to be like everyone else, but to offer it to the world, to make it a better place to live in. 


And so here I am. This is how I think. This is how I feel. This is what I want to do and why I want to do it. And This is my gift to you all.

With my hands, I give you my heart, and crown it with love.




Friday, 6 March 2015

Up for Giving?

While learning a little Japanese the other day,   I came accross another interesting hidden meaning in one of the many complicated character systems they use in their writing.

There is a word (a verb) that has two different meanings, but can be splet with the same characters.

This word is 'Ageru'.
The Japanese spelling is 上げる.
The first character '上' means 'up'.

So the first meaning of this word is the verb 'to rise' or 'to go up a level'. It can be used in the context of a job promotion or something you are studying.

The second meaning is 'to give' in the sense of giving something to someone as a present, because out of your intention.

Ok so maybe I should stop being language teacher for just a second and get to the point. The question that I asked myself was, why would the character for 'up' or 'rise' be used for the same word as to give a present to someone?

And then it hit me - due to a recent previous experience that I had I was able to realise the meaning pretty quickly. To give IS to rise. And the more you give, the higher you go.

Whereever I go I always try to give my all. I travel to places and give everything to the people I meet there. Sometimes I come back a little depleated. But it's OK because I don't expect to recieve in return.

However, I realised something very important from my last travel. Even though you give your all in one particular area of your life, whether it's love, health, work, or family - you could rise up, usually unexpectedly, in another area. If you recognise it from that perspective, then no matter how depleated you would feel after giving, the rising up that life provides you in another area of your life gives you that energy back. And then ......well it's only up from there :)

So if you are scared of doing something, and giving your all, without getting anything back, just trust in that vital balance which the world is constantly trying to maintain. Trust that not only will it come back to you in one way or another,  but it will move you to the next level.

Let go of fear and soar up towards the stars.
















Thursday, 1 January 2015

MirrorWriting

Mirror writing

Christmas is a truly special time, a day that no matter where anyone is in the world, even from the otherside of it, everyone will do whatever it takes to be with their loved ones again. This to me really shows he compassion that still exists in this sometimes cold and robotic world we live in. As Mother Teresa so rightly put it, 'How can we promote world peace? Go home and love your family.'

Bu the Truth is, my favorite day of the year is actually New Year's Eve. Everybody is together full of hope and excitement for the new year. That's when I think to myself, how beautiful would this world be if we all woke up every morning with this same excitement, not just for the new year, but for each day that passes? So, one of my resolutions will be to do this every morning and inspire others to do the same :)

However In order to really benefit from the excitement of a brand new year coming up and a fresh new start, we have to reach to grow and develop from our pervious experiences that Eve had through out the year. Therefore I've invented an important procedure to follow before we start our new year. I'll call this he 3 r's procedure to make it easier to remember. These 3r's are, reflect, realize and revitalize. It's fairly easy to follow and can prepare to live the next year to the fullest potential.

1) Reflect

The first step is to write down every experience that had some kind of significant impact on your life, whether you consider them to be good or bad. Then imagine each experience as if you are watching them again, but in a mirror. I know it might sound a bit strange but, while teaching an advanced class English the other day, my students asked me what the word 'reflection' meant. So I asked 'when you look in the mirror, what do you see? To which they replied 'myself'. I then told them that they were wrong. Not their English, their answer. Eventually they agreed with me but didn't know the English word to describe what they saw. That's when I told them, that it wasn't them that they saw, it was their reflection.

A reflection is something you look at from an outsiders point of view, without any internal or emotional involvement. It can give you a wider scope of any situation therefore a better understanding of what really happened in each experience that you've listed before. And of course, if you change the angle of the mirror, you can see many different perspectives and ways to think about and judge each experience.

2) Realise

The second part of this procedure then automatically follows, from positive reflection, important realizations are made. You first start to realize that each experience in the past year are all intricately connected by one master divine plan made just for us to achieve out highest dreams and fulfill our most wanted desires, happening one by one at the perfect time in the perfect place, leading you with with the universes subtle signs along the way, falling into place just like dominoes.

3) Revitalise

And it's only after this important realization can we draw upon each experience an important learning curve, lessons that will help us to implement the next step in our procedure - to revitalize. From these lessons we learn we become stronger, wiser and more in synch with the grand plan, securing yourself a destiny full of love, light and contentness. This way we never stop growing, developing and evolving to our maximum potential, the reason why each of us is born into this world.

If we all follow this type of procedure and inspire others to do the same, then we can start each new year of our lives full of energy and positivity, bringing much more happiness to our lives and making this world an even more beautiful place to live in.

Happy New Year to all

Xxxxx