8 BILLION AND THE NUMBER IS STILL GROWING. THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON EITHER FROM THE PAST, PRESENT OR THE COMING FUTURE, THAT IS HERE BY ACCIDENT.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON HAS HAD A ROLE, OR IS PLAYING ONE NOW; AND FOR THOSE IN THE FUTURE, WILL HAVE A ROLE ON PLANET EARTH. THE THING IS THAT MOST PEOPLE DON’T RECOGNISE THEIR ROLE.
WE CAN’T SPEAK SO MUCH FOR THE PAST. HOWEVER, WHAT WE CAN DO NOW AND THE FUTURE IS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR EACH AND EVERY PERSON IN OUR OWN GIFTED WAY. AND THAT WOULD BE SPECTACULAR!
HAVE YOU TRIED BEING YOURSELF? I MEAN JUST BEING YOU? WHEN YOU REALLY THINK OF IT, MOST PEOPLE TRY TO BE SOMEONE ELSE THEY AREN’T NOW.
PERHAPS, TO PORTRAY A BETTER VERSION OF THEMSELVES. THAT IN ITSELF IS GOOD. WE HAVE TO STRIVE TOWARDS THAT.
HOWEVER, NEVER LOSE THE PERSON YOU ARE. BE YOURSELF NO MATTER WHAT. THERE WILL BE SOME WHO ADORE YOU AND SOME WHO WILL HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. BUT WHO CARES?
ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THAT RISK? IT’S YOUR LIFE. MAKE THE MOST OF IT. LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST.
Picture from a photo album that he put together, like he did with all his other photo albums.
Another picture from one of his photo albums.
It’s 2.13am on a Sunday morning. My bed’s beginning to call out my name and my body is saying, “Okay, coming.” But (not “however” in this case), my “brain is saying, “Hang in there. You’ve got to get this article published early before the first thing in the morning (or in simple English: “like yesterday”). The truth: my brain is winning hands down.
It is 9.09 am on the same Sunday morning. Noooo, I’ve not been at this for about 7 hours and get to this far only. Though it does happen occasionally… when I am piecing together an article.. Okay okay, it happens quite a lot…my mind goes into “mind-mapping mode” when one idea leads to another and another.
I had a quick breakfast – a slightly thicker than thick slice of marble-walnut cake from Berry’s and my Hydraflask corked mug of Nescafe Gold black without clothes. Is gold black or black gold? Without clothes?…Like in the buff?
After a series of Devil Wears Prada, anything’s possible. It first started with Jeannie and I catching a movie, Devil Wears Prada 2 3 days ago (no, it is not 23 days ago). Then, Jeannie said she had not watched the first Devil Wears Prada. So, I applied my journalistic research skills (whatever it means) (the little that I think I have) to find it.
A trait that I picked up from my father when I was much younger (which means I am young)…as I was saying when I was much younger, was to record down all the movies that I watch: date, movie title and the actors & actresses. I have been doing that for about 50 years, where my recording was maybe about 1% – 2% missing information which included forgetting to record the movie. Up today, I have watched 2,454 movies, which isn’t a lot. I never really had time for movies. One thing I should have included in my recording was a capsule review. Then again, when I browse through the titles of the movies, I can recall some of the movies, even though they were decades ago when I watched them. Some of the titles, I have to crank my “go-back-through-history” hard to figure out movie. Then, there are others, even very recent ones…I simply have no clue in remembering them.
Yes…my father. Do you know that today is his birthday? He is 94 years old.
HAPPY 94TH BIRTHDAY DAD! KEEP ON ROCKING!
About a month ago, he was in hospital. On one of my visits to him, I said, “Dad, you are going to be 94 years old in just over a month’s time. What are your plans?” Without skipping a beat, he replied, “Pretty much the same”.
He is 94 today and he is going to continue doing what he has being doing to do more of that. His memory and wit is still pretty sharp.
It is MOTHER’S DAY today as well. Man o man, it’s tough being a mother, especially being my mother. From the stories she used to tell us, she became a “mother” to her nephews and nieces in her early teens. She had to look after them while her elder siblings went to work. Just to put things in perspective. My mother was 14th of 17 children of the Gomes clan. Then, when my sister, me and my brothers came along, her very own children; she was pretty much in control of things.
My mom was kind and good natured in school (her classmates / schoolmates and relatives can attest to that) and till this very day, is the same person. My late sister, Jen; late brother, Nigel, Terence, Malcolm and me (of course), together with our own families can attest to that. She has given all her life to being kind and good-natured, not just to us, but to everyone in her life.
I wish my mother and all mothers to their own children, to others, to people around them,
YOU WILL GET YOU TO WHERE YOU WANT TO GO. TWO THINGS YOU MUST REMEMBER WHEN YOU WANT TO DO THIS: 1. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO KNOW WHERE YOU WANT TO GO. 2. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IT WILL ULTIMATELY BE YOU WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ARRIVING AT YOUR DESTINATION.
