Got this send from Cate @ wingedprisms.com a wonderful women with a wonderful heart. PLEASE, PLEASE go visit her blog, a remarkable woman….
This is what she sent me. I did a blog for Bloggers for peace about “Love” and I spoke about my love for Dawn my Partner. She said this made my story remind her of Dawn and I. Is Word Press not just something? Cate, thank you, it means more than you know xxx
Shaun
Baby I’ve been searching like everybody else
Can’t say nothing different about myself
Sometimes I’m an angel
And sometimes I’m cruel
And when it comes to love
I’m just another fool
Yes, I’ll climb a mountain
I’m gonna swim the sea
There ain’t no act of God girl
Could keep you safe from me
My arms are reaching out
Out across this canyon
I’m asking you to be my true companion
True companion
True companion
So don’t you dare and try to walk away
I’ve got my heart set on our wedding day
I’ve got this vision of a girl in white
Made my decision that it’s you alright
And when I take your hand
I’ll watch my heart set sail
I’ll take my trembling fingers
And I’ll lift up your veil
Then I’ll take you home
And with wild abandon
Make love to you just like a true companion
You are my true companion
I got a true companion
True companion
When the years have done irreparable harm
I can see us walking slowly arm in arm
Just like the couple on the corner do
Cause girl I will always be in love with you
And when I look in your eyes
I’ll still see that spark
Until the shadows fall
Until the room grows dark
Then when I leave this Earth
I’ll be with the angels standin’
I’ll be out there waiting for my true companion
Just for my true companion
True companion
True companion
After the beheading of Soldier Lee Rigby who serves in a regiment and plays in the same band as a friend did, there has been much unrest in the UK, Mosques have been attached as have anyone looking like a Muslim (I mean that remark in the ugliest way possible, this is what is happening) getting beaten up or worse.
However, Yesterday in York a planned demonstration by the English Defense League supporters was calmed down when a mosque started serving tea and biscuits to EDL Protesters and defused the situation. If only this happened more eh. It says a lot that Muslims are trying to get the message over “We don’t all want to kill you” And I say well done to this little Mosque in York, England. A proud moment for humanity. It is sad Lee died, but an eye for an eye attitude will lead to chaos, that probably will still happen to erupt in the streets of England. I am well known for wanting Independence from England, for my Country Scotland, but today I am proud to say “I am British” I only hope that other EDL members act in the same manner and react this way.
A very British way of doing things, settling things over a good cup of Tea
A mosque has been praised for serving tea and biscuits to English Defense League supporters after the far-right group arranged a demonstration there.
About six people turned up to protest at the mosque in Bull Lane, York, on Sunday and were invited inside to play football with worshippers.
More than 100 supporters of the mosque had gone there after learning of the planned EDL protest.
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu said the mosque’s response was “fantastic”.
He said: “Tea, biscuits, and football are a great and typically Yorkshire combination when it comes to disarming hostile and extremist views.”
‘Proud moment’
Father Tim Jones, who went to the Bull Lane mosque, which is situated in his parish, said: “I’ve always known they were intelligent and compassionate people and I think this has demonstrated the extent to which they are people of courage – certainly physical courage and also a high degree of moral courage.
“I think the world can learn from what happened outside that ramshackle little mosque on Sunday.”
Hull Road ward councillor Neil Barnes said it had been a “proud moment for York”.
He said: “I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day that the York Mosque tackled anger and hatred with peace and warmth – and I won’t forget the sight of a Muslim offering a protester tea and biscuits with absolute sincerity.”
Fears over a demonstration grew after Yorkshire EDL Scarborough Division posted a message on its Facebook page calling for supporters to gather outside the mosque.
Imam Abid Salik said: “We did have a few people who did come to protest but when they came some of the members of the mosque went over and they engaged in a conversation.
“Some people went over with cups of tea and biscuits, they were talking for about 30 or 40 minutes and then they came inside, which was a really, really beautiful thing.”
Father Tim Jones said “the world can learn” from what happened outside the mosque, a small one at that. If only, we can pray
I have decided to try and do the “Bloggers for Peace” love blog a go, I will give it my best shot. We all have relationships, we are all in love, out of love, or looking for love, so this should be an amazing thing to read when it is done. I will add my piece, but I also look forward to readings others. To get true peace in a relationship for me and my Partner Dawn was easy, but I speak only for me, same as you all speak for you and your partner. Since the day we met we were best friends. When I say we never argue, people never believe me, when I say we never even debate hard over a subject, nobody believes me. When I say I make love to my best friend and a person I still, after 22 years kiss and it feels like the first kiss, when I look into her eyes, I still feel like is the first time I have seen her eyes. As a blogger for peace for a few months now, I look forward to this challenge and fun it may bring
So 5 things that make a relationship peaceful
Friendship
Once you have a relationship where friendship is there first I believe this can help, but I have only ever loved one woman like they way I love Dawn. Our friendship started as kids aged 8 or 9 years old. Of course it was not real love, but we both talk today about it, and we both agree, the day we met, we both knew we would at least be in each other’s life forever. Being your partners best friend can be the most amazing feeling ever. Funny saying this, if I was single again ever, I would be lost! Like a kid lost in a store 🙂 Friendship is the cornerstone of a relationship. I believe so anyway. We knew each other so well before we had our 1st son, and that exact feeling of friendship never left us. Works for us.
Having Nothing, love on its own
Dawn and I have agreed that if we had no money, no nothing, we would live in a cardboard box in a field together and still be this happy. We have both experienced great hardship as kids, so we both know when Happy comes to town, there is no turning back. I say “Having nothing” as one of my 5 things, and I mean having nothing in the sense, no money, no car, no food, we would manage, we would never starve to death. We have each other and through this we both have amazing friends we trust each other with, so we never go without. But if it was not be with Dawn and we lost our home we would do anything, annoy people or live in a cardboard box, I would live in a cardboard box with the woman I love. Love comes first. We all need money. But put £$100M infront of me and ask me to choose the life I have now with Dawn and our finances to be with dawn with the £$100M we both agreed we would not take the money as money can ruin love and friendship and destroy the peace. When I was a kid my Dad became a very wealthy man, it ruined him and my Mom
Having Kids
Having kids, as well as being friends pull you together as a couple more. We have 4 kids, two sons in late teens and 2 girls two and 4 years old. I believe with Dawn, having Dean, Ryan, Courtney and Chloe has brought us closer, this is about peace, and I know peace in my own home. I may have issues with me and things away from my home, but in my home the balance is perfect between love, friendship, fun, and discipline and peace in the best way with the kids. We don’t shout at our kids, we speak to them, even when they came home drunk aged 16 at 4am, we spoke about it. Why? Because Dawn and I have done this together when we were kids, we were always together and kept our friends at the same time. Hard to pull off, but number 4 explains this, peace MUST include kids in the story if you have had kids. Peace and Harmony is essential for a kids growth, so Dawn and I, like every parent must lead from the front
Having Friends
Having a healthy peaceful relationship comes with many tests and one of these can be the amount of friends both of you have. With Dawn and me we both have friends, friends we share and friends we spend time with together. When Dawn was younger she had a job that took her away some weekends and sometimes for a week, all over Europe and I was home alone with the boys when they were young. Not once did either of us get jealous or upset, we never once went there; we never once had that debate. Trust was just a given. We knew how deeply we were in love, it is in the eyes for me, you gaze into your partners eyes and they tell a story. For me that story tells one of peace, friendship, trust and honesty
The test of time
In my relationship with Dawn, 22 years now and the time we shared as young kids infatuated with each other, here we are in complete peace. We share our worries, hopes, pains, fears and our souls with each other. When we sit apart and I gaze into her eyes and tough the side of her face and kiss her without blinking, this is a MOMENT that I have every day, I don’t ever take it for granted, I never just think “She is there” It takes hard work to keep being friends, to not say the wrong words, not never argue. Neither of us drink, so this is never an issue, drink can cause issues in a relationship, that I have seen, but with Dawn and I, we stood the test of time, and we are BOTH still in our 30’s. But been together 22 years, the test of time in a relationship is so important, but that time together must be truthful, honest, kind, loving, happy, knowing, an unspoken word, and with peace
For me, and just me, these 5 things are so important. Not everyone has kids, we do, so I had to add in having kids as it brings a lot to the relationship in terms of stress and lack of sleep, but never once did we fall out, we laughed when we both had 2 hours sleep and the kid woke up again. When I was diagnosed with Chronic Pain Syndrome and classed as disabled, Dawn was there and more. She cares for me every day, with a smile and a kiss. And when we make love it is always tender and special. Every time, it must be, I love her so I would not lie in love, it has to be everything or nothing, for me, this brings peace of mind to a relationship
A love that is so strong it hurts, in a good way x
4 things to become a better partner, for me this is tough, but I will try hard
Noticing
To be a better lover in a relationship again needs time, it needs focus it needs you to notice if your partner is down, it needs you to keep an ear available at all times. To be a better partner is being there, for the small things and the bad things. We must always notice when we should be there. Not mind readers, but love is a thing we can see, we can see when we need to notice, noticing if a partner is ill, or upset, whatever and asking “Are you ok” brings peace and love.
Love
How many people forgot to put the world love in? lol, to be a better lover and partner, you need unconditional love. Love that is a look, a feeling, a touch, a touch when nobody is looking, still having a sly sneaky kiss when nobody is looking, fooling around a bit also, age has no limits on love so for Dawn and I, be us 18 or 38 we do the same things, we share the same moments, love is very high on the agenda, love = peace. I say in most blogs I do. More Love, Less Hate.
Moments
In love, in a relationship, we share moments, love is moments, looking back at my relationship with Dawn I have moments, and I guess she does also, in-fact I know she does, we discuss them in fun always. We have had moments of wild passionate love making, to having fun alone watching a movie or with the kids at the park playing on the swing, small moments, but moments all the same. Always take these moments in, and let your partner know you know these moments, that you remember, it works for me
Learning
Learning is such an easy thing to stop doing, I speak to my father, he is 67 and he still learns, so in a relationship, as it grows learning about each other is a must. Many rush in too quick, many don’t give themselves time to learn about each other. Although Dawn and I have been together 1/5th of a century we still learn about each other, why does this happen? Because people change, when I was told I was disabled we learnt something, when the pain came I learnt she would be there for me, Dawn learnt I need her so badly, not just to help me in pain, but to talk to, to understand the illness, to make sure we both learn our new life together with a disability. When we met I was a Soccer player and was did Boxing, without actually doing a proper fight, so I was healthy, so when I was told I was disabled and the pain got worse, I learnt that Dawn would still be there for me. This is just one circumstance of learning, but to sum up, never stop learning about your partner.
MY 5 things to bring peace and 4 issues on being a better partner/lover are mine and mine alone. I really thought this was fun, but also brought back many memories. I look forward to reading how other people wrote now, for me love is no competition, it is a blessing, I do this because it is fun, I do this for me and I do this for you Dawn, as you know I love you so
Shaun x
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
This video explains the best I can through the medium of music how I feel in love x
So one door closes and another opens they say, today I have to close the door on blogging, not just for me, but for my family. I spend a LOT of time online and blogging takes 10% of what I do, well it did, if I am being honest it was taking 25%/30%
I tend to get bored very quickly with some things online, please not with Word Press or any people here, just blogging. I think I have blogged about my entire life in here; I have nothing left to blog. I want to blog but I am going over old blogs, and blogs are becoming the same but with a new title.
Also awards, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for every award, I don’t want a pat on the back or a bit of cake, I just want to say thank you. The 61 Awards I got were from people who in the main thought about my blog, or I made someone laugh. The Moments awards I would like to have got to 10, I am on 7, lol
The experience of reading a blog about someone new, or a new topic really made a lot of space in my heart. Out of all the blogs I read, this one here touched my heart the most. http://tersiaburger.com/2013/01/25/vic-has-left-home-for-the-last-time/ by Tersia and her angel child Vic who passed, when I read it I hugged Dawn my partner and we both cried. Tersia, you are a special person and Vic is looking down on you with love and she is in no pain. I urge everyone to go read this blog and get to know Tersia.
I could go on and on and on, but if you spoke with me and we had fun, then I guess it was worth it. I am a big shit for coming onto social media sites and just getting bored. So what I am going to do is spend time reading others blogs instead and speaking to others and reading some more stories
I don’t think I have anything left to say, and please, no more awards (Unless someone wants to quickly nominate me with 3 Best Moments Awards, lol) You see what happened here was I created moments. Some good, some bad, some indifferent, by blogs were just ramblings from a lad on medication and in pain, I don’t think I can say I blogged anything of real substance, just what was on my mind for a few second, “Moments” because that is what living is, moments, all we are left with are moments.
I found a few people to be “Competitive” in a “Look how popular” I am way, and I guess that is ok, I really just rumbled on till someone spoke back, how many followers, how popular, all that bullshit, not interested, I battle to live to my life and be happy, not sit online and do it, but PLEASE I am not having a go, some people really only have online friends, people that have the same disability as me or worse. It would be easy to just give in and be an internet person. This is where I ALWAYS draw the line on the internet, I want my real life to work, and I want to be popular to the right people, my family.
So to everyone I said hi to, or spoke to, good luck in life. If you have email shaungibson1@sky.com is my email if you want to chat, as in voice my Skype handle is shaunyg1973
I will still speak, I will keep my account open, and I will see how people are doing and make more of an attempt to speak to you all through your blog and not mine. I really have nothing less to Blog. I have been blogging the best part of 2 year now, sport before for a year then my own personal nonsense, so please, forgive me if I take a break.
If you want to speak to me, please do, on any blog, I will answer, if you want to email, please do, if you want to Audio Skype, please, you are welcome. I am a happily married man with kids; I have no reason to Audio Skype than just to debate and have fun
And this is why I am doing this. I want to start a radio show, I may fail, but I got a half offer to do a spot for some radio show in the UK so I am going to try, I will post the link on the “Blog Radio” at the top of my blog
I re-blogged my 1st ever blog below this one, and I blog my last above it
Thank you to anyone I spoke to, I missed MANY names but please if we spoke, thank you for taking the time and effort. I am way behind on many things in my life, blogging just got boring for me. The same as someone getting bored reading a book or watching a movie, shit happens. Lol
I honour “Bloggers for Peace” and the movement as much as I can, and the truth of this movement is so close to my heart and mind I can’t not get involved
Only in the last few weeks have we seen what could be the first shots of WWIII for real. I believe WWIII is already happening, I think it is a Cyber War, the World has moved on, wars are no longer always fought in a trench they are fought through cyber space. I think HARD RESEARCH is needed to see things this way, I hear and read and get told of many cyber attacks on military all over the world.
The bombs sent from Israel last week, if you believe a Cyber War is happening, it could be believed that the bombs did indeed get launched from Israel, but did Israel fire? I don’t think so. Israel and the IDF were hacked by Anonymous several times and had key military components closed down, anyone with their ear to the ground will know this to be true, here are a few links
One of the best news sources I watch is Aljazeera England news (Just read and told in English), it tells the truth more than the main stream media like Fox, CNN, SKY and the BBC, I am not saying it is perfect, but unless you have watched it, you won’t know.
I look at the world right now and I NEVER take sides, Syria SEEM to be doing wrong, but look back to Iraq, we all went to War there on a lie, look to Libya, Gaddafi did more for the people of that country that he is given credit for. Many will say “Rubbish he was a criminal” Was he any more of a criminal than George Bush and my ex Prime Minister Tony Blair for going to Iraq, killing American, British soldiers and thousands of people, thousands of kids? I don’t see a difference here
Also greed is the reason I see for War, War creates money, of course it does, go google Halliburton and the Rothchild family and how they back both sides of many wars
What did Gaddafi do for his country? Here check: http://expertscolumn.com/content/list-good-things-muammar-gaddafi-done-people-libya He did wrong, but did he do any worse than Bush or Blair or many more I could name? Did he deserve to die live on TV, the easy answer is no, no man or woman deserves to meet their makes in this way. Hours after he died Hilary Clinton had this to say
Well said Hilary!! I am so glad death of a man was so funny for you; this is the same woman who lied about the deaths of American people on foreign soil.
I love people, I hate the powers that be, I hate how we are lied to, and I hate how people blindly do what this video shows below:
I could be here a while, but there are so many not answered questions, and much of what I wrote here, YOU WON’T KNOW!! Please don’t believe me, PLEASE GO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!
The world is on the edge, are we closer than we were at the Cuban missile crisis? I think we may be closer. We don’t want war, we want peace, but what is going on?
Answers on a postcard to “Shaun, Scotland” I will get them
Peace
PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. IF YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO DO SO, THEN PLEASE DON’T COMMENT. THIS SHIT IS FOR REAL, WAKE UP!!
“Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?” “Two thousand against ten?” – the veteran shouted. “No! We will run – and live!” “Yes!” Wallace shouted back. “Fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one cahnce, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!”
The two things above go back hundreds of years, this is why I feel it is relevant today
Above is an Amendment to the constitution of America; below in Red is a speech that till this day echoes through the hills and glens of my country. The one above is an amendment to a constitution that, in front of our very eyes is being ripped up and re-written, while the other one, in red, has an army behind it as Scotland is preparing to vote for REAL, TRUE, 100% independence., freedom, god willing!
The difference between the two could not be further apart. One is causing bad issues, the other may make my country free, and free from War, free from the War Machine that engulfs our world. Many say “When and if Scotland get independence, nothing will change” Well I am sorry, that is wrong. One of the reason we DEMAND freedom, most of us anyway, the true Scottish people, not the lovers of Westminster, is because we want free from War. The Scottish do not want War, we have our own factions of the War Machine up here, I have MANY friends serving in the Army and Navy and know a few that served in the Air Force, many of them want away from War, the hope is, should freedom happen, we will need to War Machine, why should we?
I know someone, somewhere will come back at me and say “It won’t happen” or “Scotland will still need an army” I ask why do we need an army? We are pacifists in the main, we dislike death and war, and I speak for myself and many of my people I know, not them all, we have our own issues in Scotland, but nothing we can’t solve on our own. No matter what the dictates, we will keep the monarchy, the Queen and her castles, some say this is a happy medium
Then I look over to America and I see a country very similar to the Roman Empire, the hand goes in the same place for the national anthem, need I say more, lol Isee a country on its knees, I see a people in fear, I see confusion all around, I hear all these conspiracy theories abound about what “Really” is happening in the States. Stories from corporate greed to a hostile takeover from within your own government, believe what you will, make your own conclusions. I don’t live there, I know many who do, I speak too many that do, and many are scared
The game has changed folks, your country has become a club, like here in the UK, We (The Scottish) are trying to leave the club, in the states, and the club is different. But you are not in it. They mess with your education system so much, soon all you will need is a pen and a smile to graduate and get in to College, it is sad sitting here and watching your Government harm you day after day.
I often get upset at watching what used to be the world’s super power on its knee’s, and printing monopoly money to get from one day to the next. I start this thread to REALLY ask the question to my American friends and family, and I just want to ask some questions.
What is your take on what I say
Do you see what others like me are seeing from afar
You are a clever people, but you don’t demonstrate enough, why do nothing? It is going to get worse
Over here, we found out unmanned drones were flying from England to Afghanistan and we took this to them, the people who run the “Game”
And this is typical of the UK, We always go to the streets when unhappy, we say “No” do people listen? I don’t know, but we take to the streets anyway. The riots a few years ago caused a lot of issues here, but we were unhappy, so said so
Then I seen this:
Americans doing a Demo about the same drones, but listen to what the man says, he had a permit, and still the law went against him. He asks if the “Killing Machine” is to keep happening and say “NO TO THE GOVERNMENT, NOT IN OUR NAME” I said War Machine, he says “Killing Machine” I think over the pond, people are slowly getting it, I am glad they are, because the clock is running down, I see it more every day, every time I read something, every time I see a new law passed, it sickens me, and we can’t cover our eyes and sing “La La La” any longer, we need to act, we all do, again, with peace, peace will see the day through, I hope
So we can all demonstrate, I ask who does? Do you? Should you? I think if we all stood up, we would see a better world, the above video has 75 views, this is sad.
Let’s take our world back, let’s take to the streets and demand they LEAD FOR US not against us, let’s not sit and watch TV and feel happy inside, let’s educate ourselves on what is TRULY going on in our world, only you can do this. I do, and I know many others who do. Sadly the word “Conspiracy” gets said and we are all nut jobs.
I say we unite, I say we take to a street, in UTTER PEACE and ask “Why” and say “NO” and Demand that the people we vote in, act in our best interests and not for the best interests in the corporations who paid to get them into power, I don’t know about you, but what the UK and the USA do, stomp about the world as some police force, but deny these god given rights of utter freedom away from US in who’s name? Yours? Mine? No, they do it for themselves, to make money, war makes money, go Google Halliburton, and tell me I am wrong.
Let’s all stand up!
Question? The BBC News reported the UK side of things, did the US Media pick your demonstration up at all?
I had a chat with someone not 10 minutes ago and I said this, and now I will blog it; I have a strange way of blogging, just say “Yes Shaun” and go with the flow…………
The title is what it says, with Twitter and Face book and all these other Social Media sites and all these groups on Yahoo and other places, I have been on them all and have always came across nasty people and strange behaviour
I have had this account 6/7 months now, and only really started blogging hard when I left my last blogging interest, sport in January 2013
I came here, and from day 1 people were nice, and to this day I can honestly say I have not came across one nasty, horrible, evil, angry person. All these emotions I have read about, but never seen thrown at other people. As the internet grows and we are so easily connected in an instant from where I am in Edinburgh, Scotland to London, Paris, Australia, South American, The States, India, the Middle East, Africa, South Africa and Europe to Russia and all in-between, I truly believe this is one of the last places where love flows, caring really happens, people understand and people take a second to be nice or say a nice word
I came here at first to talk about my Disability, Chronic Pain Syndrome, Chronic Pain. I am in agony all day every day, but the help and advice I get here has helped me in ways I can’t say, it is just filled with Love and compassion, people willing to just leave a small reply to say “I care” or “I am thinking about you”
I have never been judged to my face, although I am not foolish enough to think it may not have happened between the odd person somewhere, I am honest, I am me, you are you, so if people are nasty, they keep it to themselves, I don’t see gossips or hear them, I have 70+ people from here on Skype a few on Face Book I hardly use and many I email with, it is a fantastic place
I have been online since the world came online in 1994, I came online the day the world came online with the first version of Windows Operating System and I truly can say in the almost 20 years online, and TRUST ME I have been to many places online and this is the only one I can really say I feel we all share one common goal, and that is to care. I blog also for “Bloggers for peace” So there is another goal I have in common with many here
Is this the last Utopia we have online? The last true caring place? The final freedom on-line where we can care and help? I am just asking, I feel so…
The last few weeks have been real tough for many from Boston and Texas and other parts of the states, and also all over the world where we don’t always get the news or places where you just never get the news, shit things happen, and life sometimes can make you feel down, alone and depressed, I think most will identify with this, so I thought I would bring things into context, or try
Many who follow my blog 600 and rising, an amazing amount and I thank you all, I try and read as much as I can from you all and reply or like and at least try to show it is a 2 way street here on Word Press. I created this award, remember?
The Word Press Family Award
I am PROUD of this..
And here were my reasons:
“This is an award for everyone who is part of the “Word Press Family” I start this award on the basis that the Word Press family has taken me in, and showed me love and a caring side only Word Press can. The way people take a second to be nice, to answer a question and not make things a competition amazes me here. I know I have been given many awards, but I wanted to leave my own legacy on here by creating my own award, as many have done before. This represents “Family” we never meet, but are there for us as family. It is my honour to start this award”
And looking back, I just felt for all the awards and nice people here it would be fun to make an award, to watch it grow and see it on most people’s page just staggers me, I think “My award is all over” and have that sort of confused man look (Yeah ladies, you know the look) 🙂
I think sometimes we can all watch the news, read blogs and wish we had never, it is scary stuff. I wish sometimes I was 10 again, and all I had to worry about was “Do my jeans fit in here at School” you know, stupid stuff. As we grow and have a Home a family, bills, the bank of Dad appears and your life becomes a cycle of spending money on things that are not for you, reality sets in.
But, let me say, all the aguish and despair and hurt aside, Life is one amazing trip you know. I know many people here who are just blogging “Because” or who are in pain, show pictures, videos, people even make money, whatever your reasons for being here are, that the very fabric of this place here, and life, is LOVE
I live (Yawn, I know) in agony most days, it is hard, but I am TRULY blessed for my life, my family, my friends, the people in real life and online who believe in me and the love I get shown to the love I give back
Sometimes I look at the news and all the horror and think “I never see it in real life” Just on the news, it is someone else, I have wrote about this before and thought it for years, and like you all I have loved and lost and had times I would NOT DARE blog on here, things that have rocked my world. Murder in my own family being one of them, which is a blog I will never share, it hurts too much
But I live in my home, with my family and we visit (Not as much as I would like) and people visit us and my life is Amazing. Some say “My life is hard I have had enough” I think most of us or some of us have been there, but when the dust settles, we are left with love and a life.
I said in a blog once, “Had I never made all the mistakes I did and hate myself for, I would not have what I have today and be as happy as I am” Who else here can identify with this? Most I would guess? So we are all happy yeah? Love is our day our week our thoughts and our thinking. Individual acts of kindness keep the world going round.
Sometimes I stop and I look at the bad stuff, but as soon as the PC is off it is out of my mind, I am lucky I can do this, as not everyone can, many see things, read things and it has a profound effect on them when the PC is off. I ask, Dr’s and Nurse’s who work in a kids Hospital, how do they NOT take that heavy burden home with them at night? Do they just become immune to it and are able to switch off? I think this is the key, knowing when to “Switch Off” Many here say “You are on here all the time” Most are from the USA, and when you come online at say 6pm, it is 11pm here, so it is my “Pc Time” My PC is hardly used during the day, it is always on, my email is always open, and I am always downloading some new movie or sports show or podcast, whatever
I think LOVE is the best emotion we have; it gets us through our day, our week, the hard times and the disaster times. I am lucky, and many say to me “Shaun, you fall in shit and come out smelling of Roses” It is said off me often. I am that type, things just seem to go for me, it’s because I believe they will. Pain is just pain, sure it gets on my nerves and ruined my life, but through LOVE I reinvented myself, and made a NEW me and new way to live and I love my life. I really do
It is VERY EASY to read someone and get a false sense of them as they only blog through hard times or in hard times, but not every moment is hard. This week for example, my Daughter who is 4 this month asked me “Daddy, why is your leg always sore” I paused, I looked at her Mum, and said “Honey, Daddy just has a sore leg” This was all she needed to know, and she smiled, gave me a hug and went and argued with her sister over a crayon, I cried tears of joy, THAT WAS LOVE and a moment.
Life is moments of love, moments of truths, moments of caring, moments like what my nearly 4 year old Daughter did
Is life not just brilliant? Your life, my life, takes away the sadness and the stuff on the news and be “YOU” for a second, how lucky are we to have each other, to be able to say “I love you” or “I am thinking about you” or “I hope you are ok”
It takes REAL effort to be a bastard in this life; it takes seconds to be nice.
With love
More love, less hate
Your pal in a skirt
Shaun x
This is what we can become and where we can be, we have choice, and don’t forget it
I would like to thank fellow “Blogger for peace” DAY ONE Barbara @ http://looneyatoms.com/ for bringing this to my attention. I seen on another bloggers page the “Bloggers for peace” badge and stole it, lol. I had NO idea there was a Blog for it here http://everydaygurus.com/2012/12/20/we-can-make-a-difference-right-here-right-now/ from everyday gurus I just thought it was a cool saying. So I am going to join this, and once a month do a blog on the Peace movement. Anyone that knows me, will have picked up, like Barbara did, I am a Blogger for Peace, so I was part of it without knowing I guess.
I would say EVERYONE has a look at this, because one blog at a time, one reply at a time, one song, one saying, just trying, we may get Peace. I won’t give up on it, and I know you won’t either. Anyone that craves War, craves it for financial gain, or is a Soldier who likes War. As a Blogger for Peace, I would say these people are the architects of War, and they must be stopped
I will add the “B4Peace” to my blog here, in a show of solidarity with others who crave peace as I do, I love it, and it speaks to me in a way of Peace
We live in an world full of love, but also we are fed violence through the media. A world that is more connected through technology, but less connected than ever as people.
We don’t interact, and the world has become a corporate machine, where money rules over the heart.
One person at a time, one blog at a time, one conversation at a time, we CAN change our world
Shaun
So all along my ideology of Peace was there, I just didn’t know it. But I will add more.
I think we live in a world where War is for profit and blood flows all over for a small percentage of people can add an extra zero to their bank balance, they make me sick. I did a blog a while back, and the theme was “We don’t want war” http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/this-picture-speaks-1000-words-kindness-and-hate-war-all-in-one/ This picture below speaks volumes, A man from the USA and a Man from Iran, at the London Olympics sharing a Hug. We the people don’t want war, we want peace, we want to love and share and help where we can, we want to share cultures and be part of each others cultures and give a shit.
Kindness on a GLOBAL scale, we don’t see this much do we?
So I throw my hat into the “Blogger for peace” movement and if you give a shit, yes YOU, join in. I am aware any day War could be on my doorstep, and this is the ignorance sometimes, if we can’t see war, we are immune to it so we don’t give a shit. But for the people all over the world in War, at War on in Civil War, we must put ourselves in these people’s shoes to show we give a damn about them. We must blog and the then blog some more, and then just in-case, blog again against this Global War Machine I hate with every fibre of my being. If you have morals and love and care, then take 20 minutes out of your day and join this “Bloggers for Peace” movement, the more who do it, the more may listen. Never say never. Once I thought WWIII was a given, it was going to happen, now I am not so sure. We are close. Name a county not in, or at war or in civil war, you will be hard pushed to produce a list with any substance.
So we must all come together, the VAST MAJORITY and say, with one voice “NO” We don’t want to kill each other. And tell this 1% to take their money, run for the hills and let people who will rule FOR US not against us, and allow these people to run a world where hope can be seen, where solidarity can be felt and expressed, where we can say to a fellow human, from anywhere “Are you ok” I am in, and I will be in harder and harder, as this is a subject close to my heart and my being, this is just my opening blog, expect harder blogs than this to come, I hope I can do “Bloggers for peace” some justice
DO IT!
Join in!
War
I often show this video, it means more now!
After seeing all of this, take the 20 minutes, or deny ignorance!
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