Kindness – the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate There is a saying – “If you can be anything, be kind.” It is a good way to aspire to lead your life; from a place of kindness. In recent days and weeks, I have witnessed the opposite. The behaviours …
Listening, Really Listening I have immense respect for great conversationalists. Deep discussions with earnest listening feed my soul. The interactions and thought provocation are stimulating. What I have observed in recent times is the infrequency of such a thing. It is rare to find those folks who engage with the …
Challenges of being an empath like me It is quite a challenge when you are an empath to have close relationships with those who are non-empaths. They may be a manager, a colleague, a partner, a relative or a friend. You possess the very strong ability to be empathetic with …
Learn, learn, learn We are learners by default; it will happen without our conscious awareness. We learn through experiences and through formal education. We also go on journeys of discovery in relation to what peaks our interests and excites our desire to become more knowledgeable on a particular subject. Right …
I recently came across the following excerpt from a journal entry I had written quite some years back. “Sometimes, just sometimes, I am over it. I mean, really over it! Over the relentless chronic pain that invades my body. Over the consuming fatigue that floods my body. Over the mental …
This piece I wrote some years ago and came across quite recently………………….. With no specific topic in mind, I set myself up at my lovely old wooden dining table that once belonged to my dear great grandmother. My trusty laptop sits in front of me and a need …
Every now and then I see or hear something that quite gets on my goat and this has been happening over the last couple of weeks with the inundation of advertising material around the topic of Mother’s Day. Copious flyers, catalogues, online and television advertisements are flooding the media world. …
There is a line in one of my favourite songs by the music group Lady Antebellum which a very dear friend introduced me to some years ago. It goes ‘I would rather hurt than feel nothing at all’. This could not be more true a statement for me. I have …
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by human behaviour. I can happily observe the way people interact with one another and the world around them. I can be very intrigued by the manner in which people react differently to certain situations or environments. I can …
I have had some dark hours in recent weeks. Before I continue, I am not sharing this in the vein of ‘woe is me’; rather as honesty, being true to myself and open about a part of me that I do not usually reveal. Certainly over my lifetime there have …
