Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
WingWoman
Je ne cherche pas. Je trouve. --Picasso
Friday, August 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
long time no ramble...
it's been an age since I've rambled....
I haven't had to, really. I mean, my life has just been so full, so much - that even when the words come, when they float across my brain...well, I just breathe them in, and out...and then the moment passes.
I'm doing well...remarkably well, actually. I'm settled into my new life here in Hong Kong, and I have very few complaints. Granted, it would be nice if I spoke Cantonese, but as I really don't want to speak Cantonese nor Mandarin, well, I won't complain about it.
I suppose if I were to truly complain about anything it would be the weather...it's raining here - overcast and grey...day after day after day...it will be that way for another few weeks, I daresay...and then it will be sunny again.
I am learning the weather patterns of SE Asia...and that, well, that says something.
And I've recently had two very dear people pop back into my life, Julie and Tim...two people who haven't crossed my mind for a while but once upon a time meant so much - and then, poof! There they are.
It is a truly awesome thing how some of the most extraordinary people come and go from my small life.
I've often wondered if, and whom, would stay.
After 38 years on this blue planet, I may have found the answer. He's my rock, my playmate, my best friend...how in the world I managed to get so lucky...well, all I can say is that it's about damn time!
In any case, for reasons I can't quite explain, I was drawn back to something I scribbled in December 2007...2007...it was a very good year methinks...and I am tickled pink at the moment of reflection...credos are important, and necessary....
http://mindcandyswitch.blogspot.com/2007/12/little-inspiration.html
there is something I realized tonight, re-reading something I scribbled way back when ...something I only think I knew then, something I know now...that it's not just that Margaret is proud of me, it's that I'm proud of me.
And it's Tuesday...
mitzpah.
I haven't had to, really. I mean, my life has just been so full, so much - that even when the words come, when they float across my brain...well, I just breathe them in, and out...and then the moment passes.
I'm doing well...remarkably well, actually. I'm settled into my new life here in Hong Kong, and I have very few complaints. Granted, it would be nice if I spoke Cantonese, but as I really don't want to speak Cantonese nor Mandarin, well, I won't complain about it.
I suppose if I were to truly complain about anything it would be the weather...it's raining here - overcast and grey...day after day after day...it will be that way for another few weeks, I daresay...and then it will be sunny again.
I am learning the weather patterns of SE Asia...and that, well, that says something.
And I've recently had two very dear people pop back into my life, Julie and Tim...two people who haven't crossed my mind for a while but once upon a time meant so much - and then, poof! There they are.
It is a truly awesome thing how some of the most extraordinary people come and go from my small life.
I've often wondered if, and whom, would stay.
After 38 years on this blue planet, I may have found the answer. He's my rock, my playmate, my best friend...how in the world I managed to get so lucky...well, all I can say is that it's about damn time!
In any case, for reasons I can't quite explain, I was drawn back to something I scribbled in December 2007...2007...it was a very good year methinks...and I am tickled pink at the moment of reflection...credos are important, and necessary....
http://mindcandyswitch.blogspot.com/2007/12/little-inspiration.html
there is something I realized tonight, re-reading something I scribbled way back when ...something I only think I knew then, something I know now...that it's not just that Margaret is proud of me, it's that I'm proud of me.
And it's Tuesday...
mitzpah.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
round the world and back again
so it's 4 a.m. HKT and I can't sleep...
well, that's not quite true, I mean I have been sleeping since 9 p.m. - it's just when the jet lag kicks in with me, it seriously kicks in with me.
I'm also more than a bit wired...it's been a crazy couple of weeks and I think the whole enormity of it is washing over on me. I mean, we live in Hong Kong for heaven's sakes...that statement alone is enough to put some people over the edge...and here it is something that I say practically everyday. What's fascinating about it though is that none of it scares me...I actually enjoy living here in Hong Kong and I love being apart of us...but then sometimes, when I go back to where I was...back to the places and spaces I've recently trod upon...New York, Bethlum, Charleston, Syracuse...well, there is a strange sense of displacement.
I know that I don't necessarily belong to any one place anymore...I'm kind of all over the place now...a "citizen of the world" is not a bad thing to be...and there is so much that we are planning to see in the next few months...Ankor Wat, Bali and Mongolia are on the calendar for pleasure and Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore are scheduled for work...it's all rather exciting, actually.
And it was a good trip home...no, make that a VERY good trip home. Peter has officially become a part of my family - although the marriage part is a few months off still, we crossed more than a few bridges with my clan that will help ease the transition. I'm actually terribly proud of him and myself for the way we handled a number of situations...even I have to admit that Fred can be difficult sometimes...no one will ever be "good enough" for her little girl. And I get that - I really do get that...but on another level, I'm like - hey! this is MY life - and I choose whom I get to spend it with. Further, I think I know a little bit more about the id-jits who are out there, and I finally, FINALLY found someOne who loves me as much as I love him...no small feat in this universe.
In any case, I'll do my best to chronicle our adventures Stateside in the next few days...unfortunately, I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I thought I would...in part because it's all so familiar to me that I didn't feel the need to take pictures...
but I do feel the need to ramble - and so I do...
I also just got off the phone with a headhunter from NYC...in a strange and wonderful way I am overjoyed and humbled...a recruiter I met over 10 years ago remembered me and sought me out via LinkedIn. It seems that he has the "next exciting career opportunity for me" and indeed, he might. The only problem is that it would require a relocation back to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, and I'm not so sure that is something I want to do. Granted the money would be huge...I mean, I have hit the big leagues now...and not to sound crass, but holy crap, Batman...a firm not balking at a quarter of a million comp package is a grand and glorious thing...especially in this economy...
I do, however, have a ton of thinking to do about something like this should we continue to move forward...and perhaps this is where I'll put my thoughts about all stuff career for a bit. I do love my job here - I thoroughly enjoy the people and the places and the potential of the place...
so we'll see...
for now, though I'm am just so content to be here...rambling in the wee small hours about this marvelous adventure called life...and what's even better than that is that I have a man who wants to be with me, no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing...
how the hell did I get so lucky????
well, that's not quite true, I mean I have been sleeping since 9 p.m. - it's just when the jet lag kicks in with me, it seriously kicks in with me.
I'm also more than a bit wired...it's been a crazy couple of weeks and I think the whole enormity of it is washing over on me. I mean, we live in Hong Kong for heaven's sakes...that statement alone is enough to put some people over the edge...and here it is something that I say practically everyday. What's fascinating about it though is that none of it scares me...I actually enjoy living here in Hong Kong and I love being apart of us...but then sometimes, when I go back to where I was...back to the places and spaces I've recently trod upon...New York, Bethlum, Charleston, Syracuse...well, there is a strange sense of displacement.
I know that I don't necessarily belong to any one place anymore...I'm kind of all over the place now...a "citizen of the world" is not a bad thing to be...and there is so much that we are planning to see in the next few months...Ankor Wat, Bali and Mongolia are on the calendar for pleasure and Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore are scheduled for work...it's all rather exciting, actually.
And it was a good trip home...no, make that a VERY good trip home. Peter has officially become a part of my family - although the marriage part is a few months off still, we crossed more than a few bridges with my clan that will help ease the transition. I'm actually terribly proud of him and myself for the way we handled a number of situations...even I have to admit that Fred can be difficult sometimes...no one will ever be "good enough" for her little girl. And I get that - I really do get that...but on another level, I'm like - hey! this is MY life - and I choose whom I get to spend it with. Further, I think I know a little bit more about the id-jits who are out there, and I finally, FINALLY found someOne who loves me as much as I love him...no small feat in this universe.
In any case, I'll do my best to chronicle our adventures Stateside in the next few days...unfortunately, I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I thought I would...in part because it's all so familiar to me that I didn't feel the need to take pictures...
but I do feel the need to ramble - and so I do...
I also just got off the phone with a headhunter from NYC...in a strange and wonderful way I am overjoyed and humbled...a recruiter I met over 10 years ago remembered me and sought me out via LinkedIn. It seems that he has the "next exciting career opportunity for me" and indeed, he might. The only problem is that it would require a relocation back to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, and I'm not so sure that is something I want to do. Granted the money would be huge...I mean, I have hit the big leagues now...and not to sound crass, but holy crap, Batman...a firm not balking at a quarter of a million comp package is a grand and glorious thing...especially in this economy...
I do, however, have a ton of thinking to do about something like this should we continue to move forward...and perhaps this is where I'll put my thoughts about all stuff career for a bit. I do love my job here - I thoroughly enjoy the people and the places and the potential of the place...
so we'll see...
for now, though I'm am just so content to be here...rambling in the wee small hours about this marvelous adventure called life...and what's even better than that is that I have a man who wants to be with me, no matter where I am, no matter what I'm doing...
how the hell did I get so lucky????
Sunday, January 23, 2011
fascinating fact
this from London Jon...
This year we will experience 4 unusual dates ... 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11 ...
Now go figure this out ~ take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be this year and it will be equal to 111.
personally, I've always found it rather neat that I was born at 11:11 EST...something about that always just felt right...
This year we will experience 4 unusual dates ... 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11 ...
Now go figure this out ~ take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be this year and it will be equal to 111.
personally, I've always found it rather neat that I was born at 11:11 EST...something about that always just felt right...
Saturday, January 22, 2011
cross reference
not going to duplicate efforts...so when I feel like rambling about our travels, I'll do it over at W&W...http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/orion1129/1/1295651984/tpod.html
...but the rest of the time, I'll be here. Peter is thrilled that we have a place to share together...but this place will always be mine alone....it's too much mine for me to share.
In any case, I'm doing well...sick today, but that's due to a long week of work and not taking very good care of myself...I have a shortened work-week up ahead and then a much needed vacation thereafter...
I'm officially "settled-in" to our new home here on what was once the other side of the world for me...I tell ya, if anyone would have told me 10 years ago that I'd be living here I'd have thought them batty...and yet, here I am...
and here, at the moment, I'm just exhausted...time for more of Peter's scrumptious soup and then a nap...
just gotta love these lazy Saturdays...
...but the rest of the time, I'll be here. Peter is thrilled that we have a place to share together...but this place will always be mine alone....it's too much mine for me to share.
In any case, I'm doing well...sick today, but that's due to a long week of work and not taking very good care of myself...I have a shortened work-week up ahead and then a much needed vacation thereafter...
I'm officially "settled-in" to our new home here on what was once the other side of the world for me...I tell ya, if anyone would have told me 10 years ago that I'd be living here I'd have thought them batty...and yet, here I am...
and here, at the moment, I'm just exhausted...time for more of Peter's scrumptious soup and then a nap...
just gotta love these lazy Saturdays...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
over the river...
so today we're taking the ferry to the Cotai Strip...Fiona, Peter and I have decided we need a change of scenery - and it certainly helps that we scored some free tickets to the Zaia show :-)
It's been a crazy busy week at the office, so it'll be absolutely grand to have some downtime with my two favorite people in HK...
more, perhaps, later.
mitzpah
It's been a crazy busy week at the office, so it'll be absolutely grand to have some downtime with my two favorite people in HK...
more, perhaps, later.
mitzpah
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