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July 13, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Dissapearing it
July 13, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Disappearing It
Someone called Rebecca Rachmani brought this inspiration to my attention on her Facebook status:
“There are two types of problems: those that get bigger when you ignore them and those that disappear when you ignore them.”
You know when there’s a small leak under the bathroom sink but you decide not to deal with it because 2 plumbers already ‘fixed’ it?
Then, one day you go downstairs on your way to work and the lawyer from the office downstairs catches your attention, and with teary eyes explains that there’s a dampness issue in the corner of his office and could you check if you have a leak? Poor guy.
So, due to my little trickle the poor guy couldn’t breath.
Another such example is when exercising, or when the car’s about to die. You know there’s a problem, so what’s the problem calling in a professional or asking for advice?
In cases where a person is so ripe to see the problem, the problem is much easier to solve. When a person is blocking, straining or blowing something out of proportion – in both cases there is excess – the solution can be much harder to arrive at.
When the Heart is open the knowledge is there – when we aren’t prepared to sit in our own silence and feel, the advantages of the God Given Tools we have are wasted.
When does a problem ‘disappear’?
We’re having a problem with a friend. Then suddenly we don’t hear from them again….does that mean the problems solved? Come on….Its just much easier to believe the problem is solved when we ‘disappear’ it.
Usually one problem will disappear, or we’ll have someone fix it (like a grown up) – then we forget about it – a few years later we have a problem – we forgot this is a repeat of the previous thing because we ‘disappeared’ it back then – now, we don’t have the luxury of ‘dissapearing’ it – (because the grown-up died and we are the grown-up now).
Now what?
Its like middle-age spread – its NOT going away unless you treat it.
If you are trying not to do something because you think you can’t. If the mountain seems too hard to climb, look into yourself and see, are you trying to run away from a friend, your weight, old age or yourself?
Why like that?
Be honest with yourself and seek inside yourself via meditation, a walk in the park, breathing, exercising, writing, a workshop, or body-work.
Did you know its not only advisable, its your duty to keep the environment inside and around you clean?
Disappear the thought that its going away on its own, because its not.
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June 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
We are the world
June 11, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
We ARE the world.
by Anton Marshall Email · Print
I had to get off the bus a kilometre from where I normally do, and walk the rest of the way to the work this morning. The line of buses stretched way beyond the fanzone on the Grand Parade in Cape Town, and even as the sun was struggling to break the horizon, I could see that this would be a long wait.
This morning vuvuzelas and car horns were blasting – and still are as I write this – making it just a little harder to concentrate on work. It seems like every resident of Cape Town has invested in this most maligned and celebrated Mzansi paraphernalia.
This morning I heard that Madiba’s granddaughter had died in a car crash on the way from the World Cup Kickoff Concert last night, and my thoughts went out to a man I consider to be a father in the African sense – how overjoyed on one hand he would have been to see a World Cup come to SA; but how bittersweet it will now be for this tragedy. Madiba, we are with your family in these times, as you have been with ours for so many years.
But this morning, I also felt like I felt that morning of April 27, 1994. This morning I felt like we – all of us – were actually feeling a true sense of joy and goodwill towards one another. Standing in that line on the way to vote back in ‘94, we looked at each other in much the same way. I saw in people’s eyes then, as I did this morning, a dream realised. It’s not that democracy had arrived, or that the World Cup was here, but that we felt happy about one common thing. Just one thing.
In this lifetime, it’s idealistic to hope that so many of us can feel happy about a universal political ideology, a religion or even a share price. But in music, and also in sport, we come close. The World Cup is not just about football. It’s about feeling – even for a moment – that we live in one world. And that at least for thirty days – at least for one day – at least for 90 minutes, we are citizens of planet Earth.
World Cup 2010 in South Africa
June 11, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
We had a structured league for youth and so when we won certain games we could go and play against under 12s of such and such region, with different colours of skin.
‘At school we had that as well. We had a league playing against other schools, white people’s schools. It was scary. It was always difficult at that age, especially for a black person being next to a white person. We knew what white people usually intend to do. The colour of the skin was absolutely scaring us.
‘Maybe that is the only part that apartheid affected me or us. Some decisions would favour them but it wasn’t really major on the pitch. You could get some words coming out, some words towards us but it was never a big deal.
‘We used to look at rugby as the white person’s sport, but since Mandela came out of prison it changed. Then it was the Rugby World Cup and he gave a different perspective to sport and made rugby open to all the people.
‘We would view rugby as a white man’s sport but Mandela showed that sport unifies people.’
South African president Nelson Mandela used the Rugby World Cup in 1995 as a device to unite the country. Mandela encouraged the blacks to get behind the Spingboks, traditionally a symbol of the white Afrikaner ruling class, and the team’s victory helped bring the nation together.
Three years earlier, Mokoena’s township was the scene of a massacre. The South Africa captain was 11 at the time when 46 people were killed by migrant workers affiliated to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
Different worlds: Portsmouth midfielder Mokoena was raised in a township near Johannesburg, which was once the scene of a massacre
Different worlds: Portsmouth midfielder Mokoena was raised in a township near Johannesburg, which was once the scene of a massacre
Mandela’s African National Congress accused the Government of complicity and walked out of the talks to end apartheid. It is considered a catalyst for the end of the regime but it was an awful day for those who lived in Boipatong.
‘The IFP caused the whole thing,’ said Mokoena, who left South Africa at the age of 18.
‘The next day I had to go to school and people were coming back crying. The night before a lot of people had been murdered by men with guns and my mum had to try to protect me.
‘There were rumours the men would be coming back and killing youth – especially boys. I was at that age, so my mum had to dress me as a girl to protect me.
‘I understood what was happening but not as I do now. I knew there was apartheid and there were places where we could not go and things we were not supposed to do. You knew, if you saw a certain type of car, you had to run away.’
A friend of Mokoena’s was hurt in the massacre and has been confined to a wheelchair since. Last year, he bought her a new wheelchair and he wants to take her to see Bafana Bafana in the World Cup finals.
‘Those people need us more than anything,’ he said. ‘It would be nice for her to come and see one of the games.