Monday, 7 September 2015

Puzzle pieces.

Life's puzzle box! A Story.....

Starting to put the puzzle together, you have to choose to commit or abandon this journey. This is one of those life altering adventures.

Stories have to be told or they die.....

Where do you put the first piece?

Where will you start looking for the true picture.

What if you discover that a lot of the pieces have never been taken out of the box?

Which pieces of the story are missing?

Holding pieces so tightly in your hands. But you don't have the courage to put them down. You might not even be aware that your are holding them at all.

What if the pieces are invisible, or only reflections. Can we face those reflections and accept the truth of what we see. Will we be able to find and recognise the invisible ones?

How do you complete the puzzle if some of the pieces are lost forever? Those pieces that represent situations that you can't forget, or words that you never said and things you never did, heartbreaks and disappointments, even choices you made.

Pieces representing feelings that you never want to feel again.  Even feelings that you are not ready to feel.  Maybe you never will.

Memories stuck in your head and heart.

Accepting the dark pieces that will never be clear again. Accepting that you might be exhausted trying to flip pieces facing down around, and never turn them around ever.

The pieces might even be broken and can never be glued together again. But these pieces still have a place in your puzzle.

All of these different pieces completing the picture.

Piecing the puzzle together might take the rest of your life. Maybe you will never complete the puzzle.

I choose to start my puzzle! I will fight! I will remember and I will feel, until I can see the clear wonderful picture that is me!




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Monday, 27 July 2015

Connections.

What will be the reason behind connections and chemistry, between us and others, even us and objects?

People, good or bad, connections with animals, tame or wild, connections with objects and a connection with nature or elements of nature.

I have instant connections, and then I admit to having connections that had to grow over time.

I  do have a few people in my life, that I had no connection with when we first met, but as we got to know one another and spend time together, the connection started to grow, especially when you have a lot in common.

Friendships, 20 years later and the connection start again at that moment, no amount of time interfered.

I have people that I have met, only once, for a few days, or over a period of time, seeing them only 2 or 3 times a year, but I formed a connection so strong that it will last forever.

The connections with my boys were instant, the moment that I new I was pregnant and then that second I first met them, looked at them and smelled them. Nothing will break that connection or our invisible cord.

And after a lot of soul searching I had to admit that I was disconnected from myself on so many levels, I call it my darker side, others might call it the black hole. This can mean so many things and every person will have different ideas. I hope to start working on connecting with myself and take responsibility for my own happiness.  Dismissing my own feelings, resulted in feeling invisible.
I know that I allow others to drain my energy and I have found myself lost on more than one occasion. I urgently need to connect with my feelings, so that I can start on the path to the real me.

The most embarrassing eye opener are those connections that were never real. I really thought that I have a good and real connection only to find out years later that I was blind or unable to see the connection was a lye and that I was too trusting. Ignoring my six-sense. The hurt only adds to the self disgust. I don't know why I could not see the connection being corrupt. I might have been at a place in my life where I could not see the truth and I could or would not listen to my gut. I thought this was what I needed, even if I was lying to myself and I did not want to hear that I might have been wrong.

Not making a connection or having bad feelings about people, are part of life. I believe it protects us from harm. And no matter how hard I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, my six sense kept on screaming for me to get away, I can't remember when I have been wrong about people, every time I felt this very negative connections.

I have also met people and those overwhelming negative almost evil feelings were so intense that it made me fiscally sick, and the hate and disgust were so shocking that I was knocked on my ass.

My friends are an eclectic mix of people, younger and older than me, both male and female. And from different cultural backgrounds.
And those connections turned into relationship, and at the end of the day, it is those relationships that can be seen by the people around us.
Each of us need as many different people around us as we can find, we need to learn from one another, non of us will be able to survive without the energy of others around us. I need all of them 20 years older or 20 years younger and everyone in between.




Even as a child I had very strong connections with animals and nature, I had a little dog that use to cry real tears when I cried. Cat's that lived wild when I was not home, but they arrive at the house even before I did after being away for weeks, and did not leave the house until I was gone.

I need to connect with nature often, even if it is to smell cut grass, rain on a dirt road, walking in a forest or just walking on the beach with the waves around my feet.
I learned this at a very young age, I think I was about 5. I needed nature to boost my energy and to feed my soul. I get to unplug for a little while.

Water is my element, even if Fire are part of my star sign, Aries. Water is the west sign, no wonder I love sunsets. Water are directly connected to your emotions and can help nourish and clean you. I love our South African late afternoon thunder storms, big drop on our tin roof. But I have to admit that I hate soft rain that last for days. My fire element as an Aries, need the sun everyday.

Non of us can explain some of the strange connections that we make, but I want those millisecond connections, the ones that makes your heart beat just a little bit faster, and make me feel alive.












Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Bucket list (these I can tick)

Items I am removing from my bucket list......
(these are in no specific order)

These will be ticked before the end of this year (2015).

June 2015

Walk the streets Venice. DONE

Write an note at Juliet's wall in Verona. WAS IN THE COURT YARD
Eat real Italian pasta. DONE
Shop in Milan. DONE
Drive on the wrong side of the road. DONE
Travel on my own in Italy.DONE


Not on the original Italy list.

Drove a car with the steering wheel on the other side.
Made real Italia pasta.
Found Alta Aqua Libreria in Venice.

Had real Italian pizza on a square in Torino and Venice.
Bought real Italian shoes, lots of them.
Gelato for lunch, more than ones.



Drive at more the 200km/h (on a highway) (Okay it was 260km/h)
Traveling to Europe
Drank wine in France.
Walked down the  des Champs-Elysee's in Paris 
Visiting an tropical island or 2
Dancing in the rain.
Got married.
Giving birth.
Went to, screamed and danced at a Rock concert.
Swim with dolphins.
Getting a tattoo
Touched a baby lion.
Having a Giraffe eating from my hand. (my all-time favorite animal)
Started my own blog.
I have been published in a Newspaper and a Magazine.
Walked in the streets of Paris, France at night.
Road on a steam train.
I've been on TV. (okay only in SA)
I've been to the Vic Falls in Zambia
I climbed Dune 7 in Namibia.
I've been to the most southern tip of Africa.
I swam in the Indian ocean and the Atlantic ocean. Peed in both!
I saw the Big Five.
Went skinny dipping.
Met my soul mate.
Partied in a parking lot. In a bus, a big one and a small one.
Went to my 2 favorite bands ever, rock concerts. Def Leppard and Nickleback!!!
I had an owl as a pet.
Rode my motorbike in a bikini.
Done all kind of crazy stuff in the pipe car.
Got Felipe Massa's signature on my Ferrari Babe T-shirt.

















Tuesday, 20 January 2015

I read to escape!


Why do I read what I read?

What does it mean that I only want to read books about the supernatural, Witches, Vampires, Werewolf's. Historical Romance and futuristic books or a hot love story. I very seldom read novels that are classified as good literature? For a long time I have been wondering if there is something wrong with me.

The same with the movies and TV programmes that I watch, I can't stand movies about animals, any hardships or real life, give me a Dracula movie any day, or a Disney or Pixar movie. The only movie that does not fall into this category are one of my top 5 movies, The Shawsank Redemption. Again a Stephan King book. So that should speak for it self.

I am at the point that I have started to make peace with this side of my personality. I will read what I want and I don't care anymore what you think.

I have always been fascinated with the supernatural in an escape from reality way. I think we have all been brain washed that being fascinated with anything supernatural is evil. I know the difference between wright and wrong, I don't practice magic and I am not looking for a real life vampire. I use the supernatural as an escape from reality, especially when I can't cope.

People reading Speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal) tend to be more Intuitive. 

Being aware of myself 

Doing a bit of research about what this means, I started to remember stuff that I have forgotten, or needed to keep quiet about, or realized made other people uncomfortable.

One of my earliest memories are me flying / levitating in my room I was about 5 or 6. Just like floating on water I just hang in the air for a while. I have a very vivid memory of this. It might be a recurring dream, but it is one of those memories that stayed with me. Even then I  had to escaped from reality or maybe not.

I know I have the virtue of Discernment, I have always been able to tell if a person have good or bad intentions, I don't remember every being wrong about that, it might take awhile for that person to show their true colours but it always happen. As a child you don't always know how to avoid people like that, but I learned that the hard way. And it does not always prevent you still getting hurt or being disappointed. I am only human.

I can feel when there is a spirit/ ghost in the same room as me, I can't see them. It is something that you can't fight or discard as your imagination. It forms part of me having Discernment as a virtue.

I have always believed that everything are connected.

Reading up about my book preference, I understood now that I use these kind of books as a way to distance  myself from the emotions and feelings of the people around me, my family, friends or the people that I work with. It's not that I don't want to be there, it's that I can only heal myself if I escape from reality for awhile.
I feel to much and that drains me emotionally. I become very dark and even sick!  I am somebody that needs a lot of me time, and as I can't remove myself from most of these places, like my home or my work, I use the time when I read as my alone time, a time to recharge. I like escaping into an alternate universe or another life. I also like to escape into music when I can't read! I take myself away and just enjoy those times. When I get back I can cope again. I refuse to feel guilty about any of this.

I noted that I have a lot of the traits of an Empath. I am not saying I am one, but trying to understand myself I could see a lot of myself in the traits listed:

Watching violence, cruelty or tragedy on the TV is unbearable, I don't watch the news or read any newspapers. 


Love of nature and animals: Being outdoors in nature is a must for me and pets are an essential part of their life. I identify with many forms of nature and frequently feel affinity towards storms, and I feel grounded when I have my feet in the ocean.

Need for solitude: I will go stir-crazy if they don’t get quiet time, a bubble bath and a glass of wine.

Likes adventure, freedom and travel. Yes that is me!

Abhors clutter I am not obsessive, but I like thing to be where they should be.

Excellent listener: I don't talk about myself unless it’s to someone I really trust. 
I love to learn and know about others and I genuinely care. My friends know they can trust me.

The ability to feel the days of the week, and I see the days in colour. Tuesday is yellow.

You know when someone is not being honest. Again discernment.

Constant fatigue: I often get drained of energy, either from energy vampires or just taking on too much from others, which even sleep will not cure.

Intolerance to narcissism: Although kind and often very tolerant of others, empaths do not like to be around overly egotistical people, who put themselves first and refuse to consider another’s feelings or points of view other than their own.


This is why I only read books about the supernatural, Witches, Vampires, Werewolf's. Historical Romance and futuristic books or a hot love story!





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Sunday, 4 January 2015

2015 my year of changes.

Every year I have a list of new years resolutions. I get to most of them, but in 2014 I decided that the list would be very short and I am so clad about that, because it was a very difficult year for me personally.

For 2015 my only new years resolutions will be changes to myself, I cut my hear short, losing the last few kilograms and making a few more changes to my life. I have already started with the exercises for the 6 pack tummy! Living more green will also part of the changes. I would like to save our planet it is the only one with coffee, chocolates and wine.

I am going to be true to myself.
I want to be honest with myself all the time.
I want to find the real me again.
I want to be comfortable in my own skin.
I need to make peace with my darker side, it is part of me and if I want to start being honest with myself, I need to acknowledge that part as well.
I will not be afraid to express my opinion and say what is on my mind when I feel that I am being stepped on.
I will not worry about what other people might think, I just want to do stuff that I enjoy and make me feel alive. I have already started doing this a while back.
I have not been in a comfort zone for a while, but that is okay. I want to keep it that way.
I am going to try be okay with all the broken pieces that I carry around, I can live with those scars.
I know I need a lot more me time, so I hope I can take the time when needed.
I will be saying no a bit more. Making my boundaries clear.


I believe that sometimes we need to take back the things we might have lost along the way.