Peace and Happiness

Peace and happiness will come and go and return. I was quite amazed how at 12pm today I was feeling so good. Deeply inhaling the energising clean ocean air as I returned to harbour in my dinghy after a successful morning of fishing. By early evening my pleasant world was rattled after visiting my previous neighbour next door to the house I own with my ex wife. A druggie was watering the dead lawn I had once carefully levelled and made green. He incoherently expressed his dismay that his girlfriend (my ex wife) had been hiding out for the last few days. He told me not to worry about the house his mate will look after it. It shouldn't burn down. Luckily I do not need the material possessions I have earned in what seems like a previous life to be happy. I just need the ocean air and for my kids to be safe. Peace and happiness returns.

Monopoly Of My Life

If my life were a game of Monoply the last card I drew would have said "Your wife becomes a drug addict. Give her all your money and return to Old Kent Road and stay there."

I Am Tiny I Am a Giant

It is strange how being in an immense Tokyo crowd or alone on an isolated beach in Western Australia both give me a sense of my minuteness in time and space and yet also my enormity in the worlds of my children. I can not simply disappear into the crowds or the sands.

Beautiful Sunset in Hell

Can there be a beautiful sunset in extreme poverty or war?

Missing the Point

We get caught up too much in the detail of life and by doing so we miss the point. I'm not exactly sure of what the point is but I am sure that it is centered around love and happiness.

Together

I just finished watching a Chinese movie called "Together". I had no idea what it was about when I started watching it. I just turned on the TV and it started and it caught my attention because it was based in China and I was wondering if it was from Shanghai which is where my Father grew up.

It was about a boy and his dedicated Father (who turns out not to be his natural Father) and the love between them and their honesty and goodness in a not always honest and good world. At the end of the movie I couldn't help but cry. The movie was so moving.

I now wonder why I cried. Do I relate to the boy or the Father or both? Or are the boy and the Father objects/symbols/tools to express the thing that really moved me which is love. Is love a chemical reaction in the brain? a movement of electrons causing an emotion? Or is it something that is like a spirit that moves in us and around us and connects with other spirits in and around others?

This spirit of love controls us in an unconscious way making us do things we do not understand, things that are illogical like crying over a movie. Doing things that dedicate us to our children and family and if we find the right person our lover.

We travel around the world for love. We work for love. We do everything for love. Love is the most powerful force in this world. We can touch it and see it and feel it in our interactions with our loved ones.

I suppose I could see love and feel love in the movie and that's why I cried.

Mahatma Gandhi

I was sitting in a cafe having an ice cream with my daughter yesterday and I noticed a poster on the wall. It said that happiness happens when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. The words were by Mahatma Gandhi and I think they are very wise words.

The Smell of Home

As I walked from the train station to my car I walked down a nice little residential street in the cold early evening darkness. Nice neat gardens were in front of nice neat houses. Warm soft light emitted through curtained windows. As I walked the smells of the home cooked dinners entered me and took me back in time.

I wished I was coming home from work to one of these houses and my happy children would excitedly greet me at the door and my beautiful wife would smile and kiss me as I walked into our warm home.

I had that life for a while but now that is gone. My life is now very different.

I feel glad that my Dad had that life. But then remembered that before I was born his life was also very different. Maybe like him this life will return to me.

Rosey Coloured Glasses

Some people say that I see the world through Rosey Coloured Glasses. I think I am very lucky that I see the world through Rosey Coloured Glasses.

Happy to be alive

I only need to be alive to be happy.

Happiness for Free

Choose love and happiness will arrive in 5 minutes. No payment required.

Love and Hate

Love brings intense happiness. Hate brings intense sadness. With this knowledge choose your world.

A Vision from Dad

Life is Simple - it is comprised of births, birthdays, weddings and funerals. Love is the energy and happiness is the goal.