People Pleaser

People pleasing is when

you try to please people

with yourself.

Loving people is when

you try to please people

with themselves.

Counterfeit

You don't need to be a hero or a villain to wear a mask.

What has happened here,

that people feel that they need

to wear a mask to be accepted.

At what point did people,

feel it necessary to smile with

their teeth and not their eyes.

Who gave the word, that

we cannot be fully ourselves

every single second of the day.

I don't know how it is enforced

that we maintain proper impressions.

But I do know, a revolution is in order.

Hero

I call every week just to

remind him that I care.

When every week, I mean to tell him

that he is my hero, that I respect him

more than anyone I've ever met.

Yet, every week I chicken out because

I fear he'll think that I'm only telling him

because he's old and near his 'best before date'.

It's now that time of the week.

Today will be different.

Blast from the Past

Having just discovered

a forgotten blog from when I was 15.

I'll share some of the lines with you here.

Some questionnaire answers;

"How old do you feel = 15

hair color = i've decided its raven

Do you have any pets = dunno havn't checked in a while , its a definate mayb

What do you want to be when you grow up = historically famous scientist/inventor/discoverer"

Some original quotations;

"We have discovered everything, except how to live."

"Get lost outside the box."

"Love isn't meant to be complicated."

My sign off;

"anyway thats the end of possibly the lamest blog ever..

i'll add this rather cool sloth to make it less lame... Cool HUH?!"

Resigned Fate

Even I should not be above the law

I set for myself.

Faced with an undesirable situation,

One might accept, "I can't change this."

Instead of questioning, "How can I change this?"

In this way,

our dreams cannot be constrained

by simply the laziness of thought.

We needn't presume our fate,

for that would be playing God.

Eeyore

He wasn't a bad chap,

But certainly a sad one.

Colour was sapped from his eyes

Unconditional pessimism was all he saw.

Inside himself, he was losing himself.

I like to think, that after the books were written

He started to take himself less seriously,

Asking other animals how they were,

offering them help, and maybe even

He'd throw them a smile.

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K. Chesterton

Direction

Anyone can go anywhere.

simply take the cards that life dealt them,

acquiescently ambling by,

minimizing pain.

But. "Somewhere is better than anywhere."

and it takes Someone,

to decide exactly where

Somewhere is.

Cake

Memories of a 7 year-old.

After Jonathan's Birthday dinner

there was a tense silence,

before the exuberant birthday song began.

3 Layers of Chocolate cake arrived,

topped with 8 candles and 24 cherries.

Smile, Blow, Wish and cutting it began!

"I bet I can eat more cake faster than you!"

I shouted to Jonathan, wide eyed and excited.

"Not if I can help it!" he replied.

We soon found out that I could in fact eat

more cake faster than Jonathan.

We also soon found out that I could un-eat the cake

and my dinner, even faster than that.

Pottery Barn

It seems that once you've committed

a series of eight friday nights, to attend

a very expensive set of lessons, learning

to sculpt tiny, useless, ornamental pots.

You've run out of ideas.

Treasure Hunt

Lessons from my father

In every conversation,

try to discover what makes

that person unique, different

to everyone else in the whole world.

Get inside their head, their emotions.

What do they feel and why do they act?

Life is just as much about reactions

as action.

To discover someone

is to love them,

to find them,

in the dark.

Label

I always thought it was ironic

how some guys started wearing eye-liner

listening to death metal and loving black

to display how they wouldn't be labeled,

put in a box like the rest of society,

but in doing so, they created their own label,

they're own box. emo, goth, greebo, metal head.

Becoming a market to be targetted,

with their own magazines, clothing, music channel.

I guess

You can never fully escape the labels society gives you.

You can only escape the labels you put on yourself.

Isaac the Frog

Isaac was a frog.

a slightly frustrated frog

because he longed sooo much to

become closer to everyone he knew.

This meant that Isaac,

was a very happy frog.

Freedom

It's not like other gifts,

It doesn't come

in a box.

Runner

Feelings of Importance

Sainsbury's security guard by night.

'The Flash' sprinter he was by day.

Running 10 miles every day

200 meters in 20 seconds, no, 19 seconds!

he said.

(judging by his belly),

"no your dreaming" she said.

Fastest in the country,

ever since he was one years old, winning every race

he said.

(judging by his wild claims)

"thats impossible" she said.

Almost competed in the olympics for Jamaica,

if it weren't for his bad ankle, he'd be faster than usain bolt,

he said.

(judging by his need for self importance)

"wow thats amazing" she said.

Resonating

Music. just,

Sound waves vibrating at various frequencies.

Why does it sound beautiful to us.

Who decides that it can move us.

Where did it get this power over us from.

What is being communicated from its conception.

Music. just,

Sound waves vibrating at various frequencies. Or

Are there deeper forces at work here

Starving

How often do we feed the physical

need for food in our friends and family.

And yet neglect to feed them with the

genuine appreciation they are starving for.

"Twice I did good and that I heard never,

Once I did bad but that I heard ever"

- Unknown

Socially Acceptable

I miss the days

when it was perfectly acceptable

to camp out in the lounge over night,

playing 'worms' in sleeping bags.

Painting each other in fluorescent paint

munching on the 'midnight feast',

the one we'd been talking all day about.

Watching cartoons and wrestling

until two in the morning and then giggle

until too tired to talk anymore.

Year of the Dragon

Completing Spyro - Year of the Dragon

to 117% felt sooo good,

knowing that some suckers

stopped when they reached 100%.

Investigation

I had been called many names before,

silly, clever, crazy and the occasional racist joke.

But none with such weight than the one uttered

by a four year old boy, just walking past.

"Mummy, do you think I'll ever be as tall as that man?"

Have no doubt.

This allegation is being looked into.

Poo

Walking Pebbles and Topsy

he breathes in the fresh air,

Sound only of the wind in the grass

Alone, with his dogs and his thoughts.

Topsy, hearing natures call,

'Strangles a brown snake'

on a clean patch of path.

Seeing this, he reaches for a bag

and cleans up the mess.

He likes to think to himself,

It's not because of the sign warning of a penalty

Or because of what anyone else might think.

But because he genuinely loves making the world

a better place.

After-Life

Memories of a seven year old.

Me: "Mark, what do you think happens to us when we die?"

Mark: "Dunno, I think we come back as space aliens."

Me: "Wow."

"Mark, what colour are space aliens?"

Mark: "Purple."

Tension

Work/Social

Triumph/Disaster

Sovereignty/Responsibility

Trust Everybody/Trust No one

Cost/Benefit

Recovering/Growing

Sane/Bonkers

Hold Everything in Tension

If one string is loose,

or another rigid,

You know something isn't right.

Waiting for the One

She will meet a boy.

Who will be blown away,

at first sight.

Who will ask her to coffee,

and comment on her hair.

Who will think about her,

when she is there, and when she is not.

Who will wear perfume for her,

and make her feel like the only one in the world.

Who will slide a ring onto her finger,

vowing to always be hers.

Who will feel pain with her her,

clenching her hand so tight as if they were one.

Who will laugh uncontrollably with her,

sharing every part of life, big and small.

Vigilante

In the wee small hours,

whilst the world is tucked in bed

around a doorway,

he pokes his head.

Sneaks into the kitchen

mischievous and wide-eyed

cleaning up your dishes

whilst in bed, you reside.

He thinks to himself

(with the most insane grin)

The washing-up ninja,

has struck once again!

How It Is

Let us try to comprehend the incomprehensible

and find that it was incomprehensible after all.

I can't Imagine

The smell of anti-bacterial,

the squeak of shoes on the clinical floor,

trying to swallow nothing.

The clenching of the chest,

his lips in slow motion silently break the news,

she's not going to make it.

The inability to cry, not yet.

the encroaching vacuum of colour,

you must remember how to breathe.

I am so fortunate.

Ice Lolly

The sheer stature of the man,

almost makes you implode

under the pressure of his presence.

CEO. One wrong move and

he'd shatter your dreams in an instant.

Yet there are times,

on a hot summers afternoon,

when this million pound man

will sit and lick a 'nobbly bobbly' ice lolly,

licking the melted drippings from his fingers.