Tag: acceptance
Who are the real victims of Charlie Hebdo?
We are all victims of terrorism, but mostly those who belong to a religion who have found themselves victimized by extremists. Now the world looks at the Muslim community and tags them all as terrorists.
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On being grateful for the weirdest things.
Maybe not at the time did I feel grateful, especially while it was happening, but now in retrospect I can see how I dodged plenty a bullet and I’m able to thank, who knows who, for all those experiences that one might tag as unfortunate. I, on the other hand, see how those things had […]
Read More…Nothing happens for a reason.
I used to have this naïve idea that everything happened for a reason. Yet, after much thought, many bumps on the road, the harsh, or maybe not so much, reality is that things just happen, good and bad, and there is no hidden reason.
Read More…Another year rushing to its end.
Wait, but it’s still November! You may gasp, but time goes faster as you add-on years. Life conspires to start gaining momentum when you wish it didn’t. When you are young you can’t wait to be old enough to drink, to go off on your own, to finish college, to start making a good living […]
Read More…The solace of belief.
A few years ago I asked one of my students why, after retiring, he had decided to turn to Buddhism. His answer was unexpected. I didn’t understand it then, but I do now. Give it time and most things in life will become clear. “As I age, my friends are slowly dying, and I need […]
Read More…And a time to settle down…
And a time to settle down… While I respect religion, I’m not a religious person. At school, religion was part of the syllabus; yet, as with many other subjects, information got lost somewhere in space while I was busy daydreaming. Therefore, I remember little from those lessons.
Read More…How to keep the peace in your relationships and avoid confrontations.
It’s not easy to live in peace when the world seems to conspire against us, so we become sucked into battles, mostly ego centered, too easily. We fall pray to those fights and everyone seems to want to be right at all costs and nobody is willing to make concessions. But there is a way […]
Read More…Why we must celebrate birthdays and other events.
As my dad’s birthday is fast approaching, and after our conversation the other day of his giving up on celebrating his this year, I feel compelled to explain why he is not as far as I am in his reasoning, but I too must disagree at the same time because there is a point to […]
Read More…Accepting loss opens the door to freedom.
As a young girl I was always afraid of losing things, whether they were material things, friends or people. So I tried to hold on to them tight. The thought of loss was worse than the actual fact of loosing them.
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