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April 4, 2021
April showers brings May flowers
Another one of those great sayings to live by. Right?
How can we live our life by this kind of thing? It makes no sense.
Here we are in April already, like month 6 million and 3 of the corona virus saga. How have we all survived so far and for so long with a deadly virus sweeping across our world?
Some of us have found new professions, new life during the pandemic. Some of us have lost a loved one to the deadly virus. Some of us have sat indoors for so long we may have lost some social skills and for this a whole new learning curve awaits.
The April showers are commonplace this time of year and there is no doubt in my mind that April in Ireland, we will have our fair share. Now that I think of it, Ireland has a fair share of rain all of the time. The month does not usually matter. I suppose back in the day when we had, a four steady seasons of weather type system, things followed a more usual pattern. We have started April with some great sunny days and calm weather and as Easter comes to an end this year we have a forecast that is speaking of snow. How usual and ordinary is that for April? Sums up quite a lot or how 2021 has been going. Lockdown end in sight ~ 5 more weeks of lockdown. Virus cases and daily figures going down and manageable to spiking and panic. Vaccines available but slow roll out to no vaccines available and then no trust in the vaccine medicine so the roll out has to be halted to more recently vaccines being brought home and also a roll out of "given to cronies". Our weather pattern is about as predictable as our adminstration, that being "all over the shop".
April showers will bring May flowers.
Our weather will continue to do what nature always does ~ survive and thrive.
Through the thunderstorms and the rains, new life is beginning. Spring is well and truly under way and new life is blooming all around us. We have had the great fortunate time of being in slowdown and pause mode because of lockdowns that I wonder have you taken the time to enjoy spring? Like get out for a walk and notice the new buds on tree branches or the little flowers popping up among the grasses?
The storms of winter are subsiding and the corona virus nightmare seems to be slowing. What can we hope for of the month ahead?
May flowers, this is what we can rely on nature to provide us. Through the rains of April will spring even more life, new flowers for us to admire. Bringing colour to our lives. Our surroundings are about to get brighter and more pleasing to look at. We do not even need to do anything to make these changes happen. Nature is going to provide us with it all. How nice?
To live by a saying or apply it to our lives though, is this really possible?
Metaphorically speaking, I myself have been struck by lightning twice, battled through a few storms of my own as a result and have still found that the beaury in spring is amazing. I have hibernated through winters and grew very tired of grey skys and harsh weather and many times quite quickly too.
The beauty in nature has often been the remedy to ground myself and begin again with the new cycle of life that surrounded me.
There is a great idea indeed, BEGIN AGAIN!
Nature is a great place to look to for some sort of direction, encouragement even. Nature will keep on repeating the cycle and does not just give up. No matter the soaking you get from the rains and the "showers of April" you will still bloom and blossom following on from the harsh or hardships. How do I know this? I have lived it.
Yeah sure, you may think. And this all sounds cliché. You would be 100 percent correct in thinking so. I am merely a cliché of clichés.
(right here is the laugh out loud bit)
What I can testify to is that when I have had some of my most harsh times and even though the battering of the winter storms seemed like they would never end. A spring like feel has come about before for me in my life where I thought I could lift my head up and breathe and then came the April showers. Another downpour of misfortune or basically, hard times. What I can testify to and tell you about is that just as the seasons in nature continues in their cycle, so goes our life. I have enjoyed the colour and beauty of life, I still do. Did I ever think I may find a happy smile again? To be honest, not really. Though it came at me, I had nothing to do with it. I sat back and listened to nature. I took some time to pause and listen to my own heartbeat. I have allowed myself the time to look and see what is happening around me. I was lost in life, I felt like I had lost at life and I had an all round tiredness. Sadness is the simplest way to explain it.
However by taking little moments here and there through each day, I slowly found that by giving my mind and my emotions a chance, yes yes, new flowers began to bloom. No, not at all, I am more of an old fart than a new spring flower or perhaps more laughable I am some millions miles off of being a meadow filled with May flowers. The comparable is that I have found new life inside of myself. New ideas bursting everywhere, a new appetite for life.
I am a firm believer in sharing my own story with all of you for 2 simple reasons.
1. My own heart ache and experiences are often quite heavy for me to carry inside of myself and they must be shared. It helps me to gain clarity by writing.
2. I wish to offer a supportive concept or idea to any person who may be about to give up. I want you to know that no matter where you find yourself in life there is always hope and a new chance right around the corner. I am living proof of this.
For the two reasons above I write my blog posts. I write to occupy my own time and bring out my own feelings. I always hope to reach somebody who needs to hear a pick me up or gain a boost from someone like me who knows exactly what it is like to be so far down that it seems like their is no way back.
April showers, the soaking and pelting we receive in life.
Brings May flowers, there is beauty right around the corner. So much to look forward to and some great adventures and lessons and joy.
Nature can teach us, nature can show us and all we have to do is allow it to do so. We need do nothing but slow our mind down and pay attention.
So are ya going to use corona virus lockdown and let nothing go to waste?
Get out and enjoy nature this April and begin to enjoy life.
@TWOsonsTOOmany
How can we live our life by this kind of thing? It makes no sense.
Here we are in April already, like month 6 million and 3 of the corona virus saga. How have we all survived so far and for so long with a deadly virus sweeping across our world?
Some of us have found new professions, new life during the pandemic. Some of us have lost a loved one to the deadly virus. Some of us have sat indoors for so long we may have lost some social skills and for this a whole new learning curve awaits.
The April showers are commonplace this time of year and there is no doubt in my mind that April in Ireland, we will have our fair share. Now that I think of it, Ireland has a fair share of rain all of the time. The month does not usually matter. I suppose back in the day when we had, a four steady seasons of weather type system, things followed a more usual pattern. We have started April with some great sunny days and calm weather and as Easter comes to an end this year we have a forecast that is speaking of snow. How usual and ordinary is that for April? Sums up quite a lot or how 2021 has been going. Lockdown end in sight ~ 5 more weeks of lockdown. Virus cases and daily figures going down and manageable to spiking and panic. Vaccines available but slow roll out to no vaccines available and then no trust in the vaccine medicine so the roll out has to be halted to more recently vaccines being brought home and also a roll out of "given to cronies". Our weather pattern is about as predictable as our adminstration, that being "all over the shop".
April showers will bring May flowers.
Our weather will continue to do what nature always does ~ survive and thrive.
Through the thunderstorms and the rains, new life is beginning. Spring is well and truly under way and new life is blooming all around us. We have had the great fortunate time of being in slowdown and pause mode because of lockdowns that I wonder have you taken the time to enjoy spring? Like get out for a walk and notice the new buds on tree branches or the little flowers popping up among the grasses?
The storms of winter are subsiding and the corona virus nightmare seems to be slowing. What can we hope for of the month ahead?
May flowers, this is what we can rely on nature to provide us. Through the rains of April will spring even more life, new flowers for us to admire. Bringing colour to our lives. Our surroundings are about to get brighter and more pleasing to look at. We do not even need to do anything to make these changes happen. Nature is going to provide us with it all. How nice?
To live by a saying or apply it to our lives though, is this really possible?
Metaphorically speaking, I myself have been struck by lightning twice, battled through a few storms of my own as a result and have still found that the beaury in spring is amazing. I have hibernated through winters and grew very tired of grey skys and harsh weather and many times quite quickly too.
The beauty in nature has often been the remedy to ground myself and begin again with the new cycle of life that surrounded me.
There is a great idea indeed, BEGIN AGAIN!
Nature is a great place to look to for some sort of direction, encouragement even. Nature will keep on repeating the cycle and does not just give up. No matter the soaking you get from the rains and the "showers of April" you will still bloom and blossom following on from the harsh or hardships. How do I know this? I have lived it.
Yeah sure, you may think. And this all sounds cliché. You would be 100 percent correct in thinking so. I am merely a cliché of clichés.
(right here is the laugh out loud bit)
What I can testify to is that when I have had some of my most harsh times and even though the battering of the winter storms seemed like they would never end. A spring like feel has come about before for me in my life where I thought I could lift my head up and breathe and then came the April showers. Another downpour of misfortune or basically, hard times. What I can testify to and tell you about is that just as the seasons in nature continues in their cycle, so goes our life. I have enjoyed the colour and beauty of life, I still do. Did I ever think I may find a happy smile again? To be honest, not really. Though it came at me, I had nothing to do with it. I sat back and listened to nature. I took some time to pause and listen to my own heartbeat. I have allowed myself the time to look and see what is happening around me. I was lost in life, I felt like I had lost at life and I had an all round tiredness. Sadness is the simplest way to explain it.
However by taking little moments here and there through each day, I slowly found that by giving my mind and my emotions a chance, yes yes, new flowers began to bloom. No, not at all, I am more of an old fart than a new spring flower or perhaps more laughable I am some millions miles off of being a meadow filled with May flowers. The comparable is that I have found new life inside of myself. New ideas bursting everywhere, a new appetite for life.
I am a firm believer in sharing my own story with all of you for 2 simple reasons.
1. My own heart ache and experiences are often quite heavy for me to carry inside of myself and they must be shared. It helps me to gain clarity by writing.
2. I wish to offer a supportive concept or idea to any person who may be about to give up. I want you to know that no matter where you find yourself in life there is always hope and a new chance right around the corner. I am living proof of this.
For the two reasons above I write my blog posts. I write to occupy my own time and bring out my own feelings. I always hope to reach somebody who needs to hear a pick me up or gain a boost from someone like me who knows exactly what it is like to be so far down that it seems like their is no way back.
April showers, the soaking and pelting we receive in life.
Brings May flowers, there is beauty right around the corner. So much to look forward to and some great adventures and lessons and joy.
Nature can teach us, nature can show us and all we have to do is allow it to do so. We need do nothing but slow our mind down and pay attention.
So are ya going to use corona virus lockdown and let nothing go to waste?
Get out and enjoy nature this April and begin to enjoy life.
@TWOsonsTOOmany
March 27, 2021
Braveheart ~ what a great movie.
There are classics of times gone by and there are more recent movies that deserve the acclaim of a classic.
Braveheart for me falls into this category. I am sure many will not like to give the movie Braveheart as high a level of respect that I believe it deserves. The performance of the actors, awesome! The story line which is pretty much historic versions of how it was, awesome! The writing, awesome!
Come on, think about it for a second or two. The Scottish want to go and do battle against the British. The nutjob guy is Irish and says Ireland is his island. When the foot soldiers, the slaves to the English head the charge, what do you know? They are Irish foot soldiers sent to their slaughter. The front lines meet ane the Irish do the great turncoat move and join forces with the Scottish. That right there is classic in itself. "My island" the guy says with a great smile.
For all of us Irish, this is a great movie because we, well many of the Irish always get some warming satisfaction when we see the Irish turn against the British. Too long of an explanation to go into here. It is in the cows milk in Ireland and we are all a bunch of monarchy hating rebels. Not exactly to be fair, just a funny spin on it.
The real clincher of the deal and something that has reared it's head throughout the covid-19 saga. It is a pandemic and it is a saga.
The many items involving corruption in politics, cronyism as low as giving vaccines out to the elite "on the sly".
No real strategy or exit plan exists for the country and everyone is really becoming on edge. Dubbed to be lockdown fatigue, I have written a couple of previous blogpost highlighting the nature of becoming angry at the situation that exists, the anger coming from having a feeling of how much more can the country take? How much more can the people take?
The mighty Braveheart let us all know a long time ago,
They will never take my FREEDOM!
THE FREEDOM means what to you?
Going for a pint to watch the match?
Going shoping for clothes?
Meeting up with your friends, basically anywhere?
Heading to the cinema to watch a movie you want to watch?
Freedom to chose to do whatever you want to do. I think that is the basics of it.
The freedom he is mentioning and referring to which for me is a great piece of writing, They can never take his mind.
His memories and his thinking cannot be taken from him.
During the lockdown and more so that it is coming slowly towards an end, I offer to you this reference to keep it in your mind. No other person can take away your mind. No other person or government can take away your memories, your dreams or your mind. These are things you own. To repeat, YOU OWN YOUR MIND.
Others may try and fcuk with your mind, every angle of media, be it social media or news channels, they keep on reporting and spamming you with nonsense all about covid-19.
The beauty or the power within yourself is how you choose to think about what is being delivered to you across these platforms.
When will we see the day that the news comes on the television and it is a program where it is completely silent and blank?
A saying we Irish have "No news is good news". Even the kings of England back in the Braveheart times have been reported as having journal entries. "No matter how we treat them, at night they still sing and dance and are happy". Not verbatim, a rough idea of a King of England journal entry as he looked out from his castle at his peasant workers, "The Irish". To compound this element of fun loving Irish, we also have and old saying or two for every occasion, "no news is good news"
Yup, I will continue to wait for that blank silent newscast one day.
The FREEDOM we all have, covid lockdown or not is the power to choose what we do with our dreams, our thoughts and our memories. Yes it is difficult to adhere to being happy all of the time and I definitely get pissed off reading and hearing of all the nonsense coming out from each article day after day about government and government agencies. Guess what though?
Many years ago I learned a very strong art of maintaining power over my own mind. I have often heard the roar of Braveheart from the movie inside of my own head, "they will never take my freedom". This has carried me through some tough times and helped me understand a lot of how it is about what I choose to think, what I choose to believe and how I choose my own life to be.
The lockdown due to the pandemic has been taking a toll on many people across the island of Ireland, "my island" lol. If i could put you all on my own back and carry you, I would.
I have chosen a career in writing and so I spam them poxy "news reports" right back with a link to my blogpost to offer you a thought distraction.
Here today, maybe you can share this post?
Keep it in your mind that you still have your mind, it is yours.
Be like the Irish and never let anyone put you down so much that you will not laugh and sing and dance.
Be like Braveheart and remember they can NEVER take your FREEDOM.
Share please, retweet and check out some of my writing,
www.amcnallyauthor.com
@TWOsonsTOOmany
Braveheart for me falls into this category. I am sure many will not like to give the movie Braveheart as high a level of respect that I believe it deserves. The performance of the actors, awesome! The story line which is pretty much historic versions of how it was, awesome! The writing, awesome!
Come on, think about it for a second or two. The Scottish want to go and do battle against the British. The nutjob guy is Irish and says Ireland is his island. When the foot soldiers, the slaves to the English head the charge, what do you know? They are Irish foot soldiers sent to their slaughter. The front lines meet ane the Irish do the great turncoat move and join forces with the Scottish. That right there is classic in itself. "My island" the guy says with a great smile.
For all of us Irish, this is a great movie because we, well many of the Irish always get some warming satisfaction when we see the Irish turn against the British. Too long of an explanation to go into here. It is in the cows milk in Ireland and we are all a bunch of monarchy hating rebels. Not exactly to be fair, just a funny spin on it.
The real clincher of the deal and something that has reared it's head throughout the covid-19 saga. It is a pandemic and it is a saga.
The many items involving corruption in politics, cronyism as low as giving vaccines out to the elite "on the sly".
No real strategy or exit plan exists for the country and everyone is really becoming on edge. Dubbed to be lockdown fatigue, I have written a couple of previous blogpost highlighting the nature of becoming angry at the situation that exists, the anger coming from having a feeling of how much more can the country take? How much more can the people take?
The mighty Braveheart let us all know a long time ago,
They will never take my FREEDOM!
THE FREEDOM means what to you?
Going for a pint to watch the match?
Going shoping for clothes?
Meeting up with your friends, basically anywhere?
Heading to the cinema to watch a movie you want to watch?
Freedom to chose to do whatever you want to do. I think that is the basics of it.
The freedom he is mentioning and referring to which for me is a great piece of writing, They can never take his mind.
His memories and his thinking cannot be taken from him.
During the lockdown and more so that it is coming slowly towards an end, I offer to you this reference to keep it in your mind. No other person can take away your mind. No other person or government can take away your memories, your dreams or your mind. These are things you own. To repeat, YOU OWN YOUR MIND.
Others may try and fcuk with your mind, every angle of media, be it social media or news channels, they keep on reporting and spamming you with nonsense all about covid-19.
The beauty or the power within yourself is how you choose to think about what is being delivered to you across these platforms.
When will we see the day that the news comes on the television and it is a program where it is completely silent and blank?
A saying we Irish have "No news is good news". Even the kings of England back in the Braveheart times have been reported as having journal entries. "No matter how we treat them, at night they still sing and dance and are happy". Not verbatim, a rough idea of a King of England journal entry as he looked out from his castle at his peasant workers, "The Irish". To compound this element of fun loving Irish, we also have and old saying or two for every occasion, "no news is good news"
Yup, I will continue to wait for that blank silent newscast one day.
The FREEDOM we all have, covid lockdown or not is the power to choose what we do with our dreams, our thoughts and our memories. Yes it is difficult to adhere to being happy all of the time and I definitely get pissed off reading and hearing of all the nonsense coming out from each article day after day about government and government agencies. Guess what though?
Many years ago I learned a very strong art of maintaining power over my own mind. I have often heard the roar of Braveheart from the movie inside of my own head, "they will never take my freedom". This has carried me through some tough times and helped me understand a lot of how it is about what I choose to think, what I choose to believe and how I choose my own life to be.
The lockdown due to the pandemic has been taking a toll on many people across the island of Ireland, "my island" lol. If i could put you all on my own back and carry you, I would.
I have chosen a career in writing and so I spam them poxy "news reports" right back with a link to my blogpost to offer you a thought distraction.
Here today, maybe you can share this post?
Keep it in your mind that you still have your mind, it is yours.
Be like the Irish and never let anyone put you down so much that you will not laugh and sing and dance.
Be like Braveheart and remember they can NEVER take your FREEDOM.
Share please, retweet and check out some of my writing,
www.amcnallyauthor.com
@TWOsonsTOOmany
March 26, 2021
Our lives, our expectations ~ how many you got?
Expectations, a long word of sorts, many letters in it. Also much to write about, especially given the whole covid-19 situation etc etc.
I have recently been involved in some rants on facebook taking aim at government protocol or procedures as they have been unfolding. Following along the saga that covid-19 has become. Yes there have been many items I have been disturbed a little by and then I read a random person's post and become a little reactionary, perhaps the keyboard is not the greatest place to be, most days of the week.
I am a writer though and the main stage for a writer is behind the keyboard. A quick note on that one. I won an award for one of my books this past week and for that reason less rants were the m. o. for the week. I was too busy sharing the good news and trying to place a few ads and the likes to showcase my new winner sticker on the cover of my book.
Back to the rants though lol.
This is our life right now, yes this current moment in time. The breath we are breathing right now is the full extent of our lives. Imagine with me for a moment, this precise moment is what life is. We make up many moments each and every day and this is how we make up our life. The concept of right here, right now. This is the total breakdown of how real our life is. How we feel right now, how we think right now.
Pause for a second or two.........
The covid-19 situation is perhaos highlighting cracks all over the place with our individual governments, health systems and service and many other horrible aspects that have raised their heads during the pandemic. There is a possible reason for all of this though. During the pandemic and the continued lockdowns, we have had too much time on our hands to pay attention to what our government are saying. This leads us to realising that many of them are corrupt, slight of hand corruption pedlars. We are realising a lot of things during the pandemic. Will we do anything about the items that become obvious to us though?
We are also amazed at how one half of our country's population want to wear masks and the other half do not. Perhaps it is not quite as simple a breakdown as half and half. Just like in politics, we remain divided with our own opinions of what might be right and what might be wrong, the kind of "shoulda, coulda, woulda" stuff. We are all experts in the fields of politics and health matters now that corona has come about. Aren't we?
I guess the political figures we have placed in power by our right to vote is something that is upon us. We chose and we voted. The political structure that exists is because of how we have handled our interest in politics say over the past 20 years. Yes that is right I am saying that it is upon each and everyone of us to take responsibility. We have been the society that have allowed crooked and corrupt politicians continue the archaic game of politics that we are now beginning to see as defunct and severely corrupt. Yup you and me and every individual in our society have allowed this to become our government and our representation.
Seeing the political body playout the lockdown disasters and the decisions being made on how to handle the pandemic, yes they are appalling and they are just like going on a couples holiday with a co-worker. Ya know the best friend from work and even sometimes you used to go out for a drink during the weel with. Then one year you decided to do a couples holiday together and brought your partner along and so everyone was so excited heading off on holidays. Giggling and laughing, getting a few drinks in before getting on the plane. Roughly about day 4 on the holiday ya realised that your best friend from work was not really going on holiday material. The going out for dinners as a foursome each evening didnt last for too long and ya just grinned and put up with each other by day 10. Things are never the same when they go under the microscope. Close friends can seem like real assholes sometimes if ya spend too much time with them.
That is like our governments, if ya do too much paying attention to them, you are going to find all kinds of things to dislike.
This goes for people of all walks of life.
So what has this all got to do with anything and what's my buzz to share this with you this evening?
The book I won the award for is a lightweight self help book I wrote. I say lightweight as I am not a doctor of any kind and I have not written a book with detailed instructions on how to live your life. I am a layman with a world of experience and knowledge about many many different things. I have written a book called Layman's Handbook. The sub title is "simple tools to change how live ~ A journey to SELF"
In my world travelling and my worldly experiences I enjoyed many fantastic things that a happy life is filled with. I also encountered some devastating blows to my life through loss and grief. I also have had the joy of saying NO to alcohol and drugs and found myself in many diffetent situations, both good and bad. There have even been times when I did not know what my own name was and these times came about while I was sober living. Just to give you an idea as to some of the depth to my own personal suffering and despair. Life aint easy & I know this very well, first hand.
So how or what can a "self help book" do for any of us. I wrote Layman's Handbook as way to help myself and my own practices of breathing and my own meditation. I wanted to jot down some simple situations in life and make a little sense of them for myself and for anyone who would ever care to read them. The book is a real one size fits all and it is definitely not the case of ya have to have something going terribly wrong to need a self help book. This is why I kept it as simple as I could to not bog anyone down in "psycho babble" or have any psychiatry type stuff in there.
What I did want to do though for sure and what I always aim for when writing, even here in this blog right now, I wish to bring about a thought for you, a thought of your own. Not me writing and trying to plant any seeds for you to consider. I am writing to encourage you to have your own thoughts on the topic.
I subtitled Layman's Handbook "A journey to SELF". As that is what my intentions were, write a book that will help guide any person on their own journey of self discovery. Some of the chapters are very light hearted and simple reading really. From relaxation remedies to the words that we choose daily. How our own attitudes can often speak to people before we ever begin talking. And how it is our own words that we listen to the most, for this reason it is important to our own wellbeing that we say nice things.
Just as how we deal with people each and every day and now in lockdown and covid-19 we might find ourselves looking for ways to occupy our time, find a focus outside of hearing daily case numbers and death figures and totals. It can be a hard time to pay attention to any kind of news from around the world.
We must take responsibilty for how we feel, we must look to ourselves for how it is upon us or within us to make our own choices. We went out and voted and this is the government that "democracy" has chosen.
We must take responsibility when we feel pissed off with somebody, we must take responisbility when we are fed up, had enough and are just too dam tired of lockdown.
We always have a choice.
There is another chapter in Layman's Handbook about choice.
Where are the words of wisdom here? What is the magic that I wish to share with you?
Our own expectations of others can sometimes be to a high standard. A standard that we believe we perform to. A standard of how we expect others to act and how others might treat us, based upon a standard we live by. A standard of respect, a standard of morality, a standard of "common decency" whatever that may be?
These can be our expectations of others. It is with our expectations that we may perhaps trip up a little. Nope there are no right and wrong ways as we are all different. We all have different levels of standards that we expect others to conform to. Therefore when I see some horrible wrong doings by our government, I must try not to react and be disgusted or ashamed. I must remind myself that I am expecting too much of the political body in power.
I must remind myself that when I am let down by another that I expected too much of them. I have found that by lowering my expectations of others that I have learned how to be less disappointed. I know it sounds super easy and simple, doesn't. It? A real question might be, is it?
I touched earlier on how I have had a world of experience in things and most of these "things" really have been about my own emotions. My emotional elastic band has been stretched. Yes of course and no not at all, in the same breath. Stretched to where I felt they could not feel any worse and for this reason and the "ying & yang" of it all, stretched to a very nice content place also. The stretched to the negative side involved a ton of crying and hurt, pains that I have a hard time describing. Then also exists the opposite end of the spectrum of happiness and joy. My choice in my own journey to self has been to accept the hardships and accept who I am. My choice has been to not curl up and be beaten. My choice has been to lower my expectations of others. The only person I can exoect better from is myself. Example, how much effort am I willing to put in?
Do I have the right to be pissed off at somebody because of how I am holding them to a different standard than they are capable of?
Do I have the right to decide what to expect from others?
Do I have the choice in how I am going to feel? Let down by someone or something OR totally fine no matter the outcome or response.
These little items have been very much part of my own journey to my own self. I have found that the less I expect from any other person or the less I expect from life, the happier I have become.
Why so?
This has become a lifestyle choice of mine. There was a time I was in business for myself and I almost burned myself out trying to run around and keep it all going. I knew that I would only become upset if an employee were to let me down. I created less and less opportunities for any person to let me down and through this came about an understanding of myself and my expectations. When I knew that expectations were a big piece of becoming upset, then I knew there was a change I needed to bring into my life. Expect less and we do not get disappointed. Now that seems so easy doesn't it?
Try it for a while and see how you get on. There is so much more content and happy time waiting for you when free up some or that space in your life. Imagine it like debug your ram. Free up some disc space.
Our lives are now. Our time is now. Have a great weekend. @TWOsonsTOOmany
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I have recently been involved in some rants on facebook taking aim at government protocol or procedures as they have been unfolding. Following along the saga that covid-19 has become. Yes there have been many items I have been disturbed a little by and then I read a random person's post and become a little reactionary, perhaps the keyboard is not the greatest place to be, most days of the week.
I am a writer though and the main stage for a writer is behind the keyboard. A quick note on that one. I won an award for one of my books this past week and for that reason less rants were the m. o. for the week. I was too busy sharing the good news and trying to place a few ads and the likes to showcase my new winner sticker on the cover of my book.
Back to the rants though lol.
This is our life right now, yes this current moment in time. The breath we are breathing right now is the full extent of our lives. Imagine with me for a moment, this precise moment is what life is. We make up many moments each and every day and this is how we make up our life. The concept of right here, right now. This is the total breakdown of how real our life is. How we feel right now, how we think right now.
Pause for a second or two.........
The covid-19 situation is perhaos highlighting cracks all over the place with our individual governments, health systems and service and many other horrible aspects that have raised their heads during the pandemic. There is a possible reason for all of this though. During the pandemic and the continued lockdowns, we have had too much time on our hands to pay attention to what our government are saying. This leads us to realising that many of them are corrupt, slight of hand corruption pedlars. We are realising a lot of things during the pandemic. Will we do anything about the items that become obvious to us though?
We are also amazed at how one half of our country's population want to wear masks and the other half do not. Perhaps it is not quite as simple a breakdown as half and half. Just like in politics, we remain divided with our own opinions of what might be right and what might be wrong, the kind of "shoulda, coulda, woulda" stuff. We are all experts in the fields of politics and health matters now that corona has come about. Aren't we?
I guess the political figures we have placed in power by our right to vote is something that is upon us. We chose and we voted. The political structure that exists is because of how we have handled our interest in politics say over the past 20 years. Yes that is right I am saying that it is upon each and everyone of us to take responsibility. We have been the society that have allowed crooked and corrupt politicians continue the archaic game of politics that we are now beginning to see as defunct and severely corrupt. Yup you and me and every individual in our society have allowed this to become our government and our representation.
Seeing the political body playout the lockdown disasters and the decisions being made on how to handle the pandemic, yes they are appalling and they are just like going on a couples holiday with a co-worker. Ya know the best friend from work and even sometimes you used to go out for a drink during the weel with. Then one year you decided to do a couples holiday together and brought your partner along and so everyone was so excited heading off on holidays. Giggling and laughing, getting a few drinks in before getting on the plane. Roughly about day 4 on the holiday ya realised that your best friend from work was not really going on holiday material. The going out for dinners as a foursome each evening didnt last for too long and ya just grinned and put up with each other by day 10. Things are never the same when they go under the microscope. Close friends can seem like real assholes sometimes if ya spend too much time with them.
That is like our governments, if ya do too much paying attention to them, you are going to find all kinds of things to dislike.
This goes for people of all walks of life.
So what has this all got to do with anything and what's my buzz to share this with you this evening?
The book I won the award for is a lightweight self help book I wrote. I say lightweight as I am not a doctor of any kind and I have not written a book with detailed instructions on how to live your life. I am a layman with a world of experience and knowledge about many many different things. I have written a book called Layman's Handbook. The sub title is "simple tools to change how live ~ A journey to SELF"
In my world travelling and my worldly experiences I enjoyed many fantastic things that a happy life is filled with. I also encountered some devastating blows to my life through loss and grief. I also have had the joy of saying NO to alcohol and drugs and found myself in many diffetent situations, both good and bad. There have even been times when I did not know what my own name was and these times came about while I was sober living. Just to give you an idea as to some of the depth to my own personal suffering and despair. Life aint easy & I know this very well, first hand.
So how or what can a "self help book" do for any of us. I wrote Layman's Handbook as way to help myself and my own practices of breathing and my own meditation. I wanted to jot down some simple situations in life and make a little sense of them for myself and for anyone who would ever care to read them. The book is a real one size fits all and it is definitely not the case of ya have to have something going terribly wrong to need a self help book. This is why I kept it as simple as I could to not bog anyone down in "psycho babble" or have any psychiatry type stuff in there.
What I did want to do though for sure and what I always aim for when writing, even here in this blog right now, I wish to bring about a thought for you, a thought of your own. Not me writing and trying to plant any seeds for you to consider. I am writing to encourage you to have your own thoughts on the topic.
I subtitled Layman's Handbook "A journey to SELF". As that is what my intentions were, write a book that will help guide any person on their own journey of self discovery. Some of the chapters are very light hearted and simple reading really. From relaxation remedies to the words that we choose daily. How our own attitudes can often speak to people before we ever begin talking. And how it is our own words that we listen to the most, for this reason it is important to our own wellbeing that we say nice things.
Just as how we deal with people each and every day and now in lockdown and covid-19 we might find ourselves looking for ways to occupy our time, find a focus outside of hearing daily case numbers and death figures and totals. It can be a hard time to pay attention to any kind of news from around the world.
We must take responsibilty for how we feel, we must look to ourselves for how it is upon us or within us to make our own choices. We went out and voted and this is the government that "democracy" has chosen.
We must take responsibility when we feel pissed off with somebody, we must take responisbility when we are fed up, had enough and are just too dam tired of lockdown.
We always have a choice.
There is another chapter in Layman's Handbook about choice.
Where are the words of wisdom here? What is the magic that I wish to share with you?
Our own expectations of others can sometimes be to a high standard. A standard that we believe we perform to. A standard of how we expect others to act and how others might treat us, based upon a standard we live by. A standard of respect, a standard of morality, a standard of "common decency" whatever that may be?
These can be our expectations of others. It is with our expectations that we may perhaps trip up a little. Nope there are no right and wrong ways as we are all different. We all have different levels of standards that we expect others to conform to. Therefore when I see some horrible wrong doings by our government, I must try not to react and be disgusted or ashamed. I must remind myself that I am expecting too much of the political body in power.
I must remind myself that when I am let down by another that I expected too much of them. I have found that by lowering my expectations of others that I have learned how to be less disappointed. I know it sounds super easy and simple, doesn't. It? A real question might be, is it?
I touched earlier on how I have had a world of experience in things and most of these "things" really have been about my own emotions. My emotional elastic band has been stretched. Yes of course and no not at all, in the same breath. Stretched to where I felt they could not feel any worse and for this reason and the "ying & yang" of it all, stretched to a very nice content place also. The stretched to the negative side involved a ton of crying and hurt, pains that I have a hard time describing. Then also exists the opposite end of the spectrum of happiness and joy. My choice in my own journey to self has been to accept the hardships and accept who I am. My choice has been to not curl up and be beaten. My choice has been to lower my expectations of others. The only person I can exoect better from is myself. Example, how much effort am I willing to put in?
Do I have the right to be pissed off at somebody because of how I am holding them to a different standard than they are capable of?
Do I have the right to decide what to expect from others?
Do I have the choice in how I am going to feel? Let down by someone or something OR totally fine no matter the outcome or response.
These little items have been very much part of my own journey to my own self. I have found that the less I expect from any other person or the less I expect from life, the happier I have become.
Why so?
This has become a lifestyle choice of mine. There was a time I was in business for myself and I almost burned myself out trying to run around and keep it all going. I knew that I would only become upset if an employee were to let me down. I created less and less opportunities for any person to let me down and through this came about an understanding of myself and my expectations. When I knew that expectations were a big piece of becoming upset, then I knew there was a change I needed to bring into my life. Expect less and we do not get disappointed. Now that seems so easy doesn't it?
Try it for a while and see how you get on. There is so much more content and happy time waiting for you when free up some or that space in your life. Imagine it like debug your ram. Free up some disc space.
Our lives are now. Our time is now. Have a great weekend. @TWOsonsTOOmany
Link to my books
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/aut...
March 23, 2021
When we think we will not see Happy again ~ TIME
Wowsers, 16 years ago. Sixteen whole years have passed since the final night of my father's life. He was very much a strong influence in my life. As of today the 23rd of March, this marks 16 years deceased.
We were all around him as he gasped his last breath, he died from lung cancer. In the end we were almost happy to see him go as it was hard to watch him go downhill so fast during his time in chemotherapy. My father was 56 or possibly 57 (I cannot recall precisely ) when he died. A young man to fall ill to cancer and die.
That night though, that night was something. The following morning I caught myself as I was walking across the hallway to his room, I caught myself as I was opening his door and it snapped back into my head that he was no longer there. His body was there where he had taken his final gasps the night before. Somehow during the night as I was sleeping I forgot all about the fact that my father had died. When I caught myself in that moment though, eveything changed. I saw life through a different lense, my lense cap had changed, a diffetent filter had been applied. I saw life in almost like high definition or technicolour. I had never felt something that could be labelled "surreal" before.
My point and the purpose to share with you today, two fold. My father's 16 year anniversary 23rd of March. The second is, at that moment when I had forgotten that he died and I was going to wake him to see would he get up today and have a coffee and a cigarette. These were the small pleasures he might or might not get out or bed for into his later days. The second part of it all is that when that moment occurred for me that morning, I believed I would never see happy again.
I didnt know the excact emotions inside of myself on that morning though have later and ever since to be honest, I have learned what they were. I have learned what is shock and trauma to the system. I learned what surreal is and I learned how a simple thought can open the flood gates to guilt and sorrow.
I am certain that many of you have lost a parent and it has been a very tough day when it comes around.
16 years later, I can tell you with great confidence that I smile many times in my days now. I have known much laughter and many days of happy coupled with content. It does not mean I do not miss my dad nor does it mean I have forgotten him.
Through my life in the 16 years that my dad has been gone, the rollercoaster keeps on chugging along. Chug chug up to some high points in my year and then there have been two too many rapid gut wrenching plummet experiences too. The overall journey has brought me to many great moments and to many not so great moments.
The point I wish to share with you is that, during my life learning about grief and loss I have become an expert in overcoming these pains. An expert in dealing with grief and loss. Times when I never ever thought I would see Happy again.
I believe it is good to feel our feelings and if these are centered around a loved one who has passed on, I want to let you know that even though I can remember my dad's passing that night. I can assure you that through 16 years since there have been many happy times. Many fond memories and the burdens and shocks start to become less.
Happy is always close by and always ready for you when you are ready to be happy again.
We were all around him as he gasped his last breath, he died from lung cancer. In the end we were almost happy to see him go as it was hard to watch him go downhill so fast during his time in chemotherapy. My father was 56 or possibly 57 (I cannot recall precisely ) when he died. A young man to fall ill to cancer and die.
That night though, that night was something. The following morning I caught myself as I was walking across the hallway to his room, I caught myself as I was opening his door and it snapped back into my head that he was no longer there. His body was there where he had taken his final gasps the night before. Somehow during the night as I was sleeping I forgot all about the fact that my father had died. When I caught myself in that moment though, eveything changed. I saw life through a different lense, my lense cap had changed, a diffetent filter had been applied. I saw life in almost like high definition or technicolour. I had never felt something that could be labelled "surreal" before.
My point and the purpose to share with you today, two fold. My father's 16 year anniversary 23rd of March. The second is, at that moment when I had forgotten that he died and I was going to wake him to see would he get up today and have a coffee and a cigarette. These were the small pleasures he might or might not get out or bed for into his later days. The second part of it all is that when that moment occurred for me that morning, I believed I would never see happy again.
I didnt know the excact emotions inside of myself on that morning though have later and ever since to be honest, I have learned what they were. I have learned what is shock and trauma to the system. I learned what surreal is and I learned how a simple thought can open the flood gates to guilt and sorrow.
I am certain that many of you have lost a parent and it has been a very tough day when it comes around.
16 years later, I can tell you with great confidence that I smile many times in my days now. I have known much laughter and many days of happy coupled with content. It does not mean I do not miss my dad nor does it mean I have forgotten him.
Through my life in the 16 years that my dad has been gone, the rollercoaster keeps on chugging along. Chug chug up to some high points in my year and then there have been two too many rapid gut wrenching plummet experiences too. The overall journey has brought me to many great moments and to many not so great moments.
The point I wish to share with you is that, during my life learning about grief and loss I have become an expert in overcoming these pains. An expert in dealing with grief and loss. Times when I never ever thought I would see Happy again.
I believe it is good to feel our feelings and if these are centered around a loved one who has passed on, I want to let you know that even though I can remember my dad's passing that night. I can assure you that through 16 years since there have been many happy times. Many fond memories and the burdens and shocks start to become less.
Happy is always close by and always ready for you when you are ready to be happy again.
I received a Book Excellence Award
I received a Book Excellence Award!
I am incredibly excited to announce that I have been recognized as a Book Excellence Award Winner for my book, Layman's Handbook in the Body, Mind, Spirit Category for 2021
Out of hundreds of books that were entered into the Book Excellence Awards competition, my book was selected for its high quality writing, design and overall market appeal.
The book was released in October 2019 10/10/19 and has been touted by myself as being "The book of 2020".
Recognition finally arrived soon after the 1 year anniversary 10/10/20. Subtitled "A journey to SELF"
Self help, Self love, Self care.
The book is perfect for anyone who needs a pick me up or a moment of peace from whatever occurs in your day. A "beginner's guide to meditation" and an all round refer to book from time to time.
You can pick it up, lay it down and come right back at any time. You can get a copy for yourself at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1693263742
I am incredibly excited to announce that I have been recognized as a Book Excellence Award Winner for my book, Layman's Handbook in the Body, Mind, Spirit Category for 2021
Out of hundreds of books that were entered into the Book Excellence Awards competition, my book was selected for its high quality writing, design and overall market appeal.
The book was released in October 2019 10/10/19 and has been touted by myself as being "The book of 2020".
Recognition finally arrived soon after the 1 year anniversary 10/10/20. Subtitled "A journey to SELF"
Self help, Self love, Self care.
The book is perfect for anyone who needs a pick me up or a moment of peace from whatever occurs in your day. A "beginner's guide to meditation" and an all round refer to book from time to time.
You can pick it up, lay it down and come right back at any time. You can get a copy for yourself at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1693263742
March 17, 2021
Frontline staff, essential workers ~ & YOU
The covid pandemic has really done a number on the world, hasn't it?
Like holy flipping cow, already, right?
In order to travel during lockdowns you must be essential. Your journey must be "essential travel". To go to work your job has to be consider "essential work".
These types of work are regularly referred to as "frontline workers" or "frontline staff". So the front line stuff sounds like war, as that is where it came from. The essential piece though?
During our current lockdown which has been at level 5 for quite some time, essential business are the only places that are open. Non-essential businesses are all closed and this makes up for a lot of businesses let me tell ya.
If I am to look at all of the people who are out of work and all of the businesses that are deemed essential and non-essential, well it just looks like we have all ( majority of us) have been living some very non-essential lives.
Imagine, a virus takes over the world, in this case corona virus and a whole bunch of people who are not infected with the virus learn of how non-essential their life has been.
What is the most deadly part of covid-19?
Yes, many people have died from the deadly virus. For this I offer sympathies to all who have lost a loved one to corona virus.
For all of the rest who have not and who have been deemed non-essential. I feel for you too.
Is the corona virus more deadly in how it has killed people of the world
"R"
Is corona virus more deadly in how each of the countries authorities have dealt with the pandemic. The corona virus has been the direct cause of how our governments have reacted to the issue, "problem".
To tell a nation of people, any country, that they are non-essential. That is a tough stance to take and an even tougher position for any person to find themselves in.
Since when did any government have the right under their constitution to deem their citizens "non-essential".
Your work is non-essential so stay at home.
You are non-essential so stay at home.
Is this the more deadly part of the pandemic?
This is some serious stuff folks.
Nope I am not pointing a finger at you to highlight the non-essential nature of your life right now. I am attempting to highlight how being non-essential as a person and finding out you have a non-essential life may have some very long term, lasting effects.
Finding your "essentialness" right now could be a difficult thing to achieve.
Prior to covid-19 many people carried burdens in the form of anxiety on a day to day basis trying to prove their worth in the world. Now in our modern world, the labels of "non-essential" may very well be adding to the over anxious nature of life.
Prior to covid-19 many people walked through each and every day with depression and have difficulty in being involved in society. Many friends and doctors ans therapists have been working with people to make progress in getting someone "out of the house". Covid has been a great help as now during lockdown every person is being advised to stay at home and only come out for "essentials".
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, no virus is going to determine this for you. No government is going to decide your worth in this world.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, no job is going to determine what you are worth, "frontline" or not.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, you may not have found your position to play just yet, in the big game of life.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, in everything you do. How you plan and play and play and plan.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, in raising your children and every inch of their lives.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, as the world needs many different perspectives and different opinions all of the time.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, just like from the very first day you were born. You make up this world right now and have full rights to it and in it.
You are essential in this game of life today in 2021. There is no lockdown, pandemic virus or government office that is going to decide your worth.
These are your decisions in life to decide.
Take em & own em.
@TWOsonsTOOmany
Read Layman's Handbook by Aidan Mc Nally.
Like holy flipping cow, already, right?
In order to travel during lockdowns you must be essential. Your journey must be "essential travel". To go to work your job has to be consider "essential work".
These types of work are regularly referred to as "frontline workers" or "frontline staff". So the front line stuff sounds like war, as that is where it came from. The essential piece though?
During our current lockdown which has been at level 5 for quite some time, essential business are the only places that are open. Non-essential businesses are all closed and this makes up for a lot of businesses let me tell ya.
If I am to look at all of the people who are out of work and all of the businesses that are deemed essential and non-essential, well it just looks like we have all ( majority of us) have been living some very non-essential lives.
Imagine, a virus takes over the world, in this case corona virus and a whole bunch of people who are not infected with the virus learn of how non-essential their life has been.
What is the most deadly part of covid-19?
Yes, many people have died from the deadly virus. For this I offer sympathies to all who have lost a loved one to corona virus.
For all of the rest who have not and who have been deemed non-essential. I feel for you too.
Is the corona virus more deadly in how it has killed people of the world
"R"
Is corona virus more deadly in how each of the countries authorities have dealt with the pandemic. The corona virus has been the direct cause of how our governments have reacted to the issue, "problem".
To tell a nation of people, any country, that they are non-essential. That is a tough stance to take and an even tougher position for any person to find themselves in.
Since when did any government have the right under their constitution to deem their citizens "non-essential".
Your work is non-essential so stay at home.
You are non-essential so stay at home.
Is this the more deadly part of the pandemic?
This is some serious stuff folks.
Nope I am not pointing a finger at you to highlight the non-essential nature of your life right now. I am attempting to highlight how being non-essential as a person and finding out you have a non-essential life may have some very long term, lasting effects.
Finding your "essentialness" right now could be a difficult thing to achieve.
Prior to covid-19 many people carried burdens in the form of anxiety on a day to day basis trying to prove their worth in the world. Now in our modern world, the labels of "non-essential" may very well be adding to the over anxious nature of life.
Prior to covid-19 many people walked through each and every day with depression and have difficulty in being involved in society. Many friends and doctors ans therapists have been working with people to make progress in getting someone "out of the house". Covid has been a great help as now during lockdown every person is being advised to stay at home and only come out for "essentials".
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, no virus is going to determine this for you. No government is going to decide your worth in this world.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, no job is going to determine what you are worth, "frontline" or not.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, you may not have found your position to play just yet, in the big game of life.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, in everything you do. How you plan and play and play and plan.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, in raising your children and every inch of their lives.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, as the world needs many different perspectives and different opinions all of the time.
I write today to tell you that
YOU ARE ESSENTIAL, just like from the very first day you were born. You make up this world right now and have full rights to it and in it.
You are essential in this game of life today in 2021. There is no lockdown, pandemic virus or government office that is going to decide your worth.
These are your decisions in life to decide.
Take em & own em.
@TWOsonsTOOmany
Read Layman's Handbook by Aidan Mc Nally.
March 6, 2021
Covid lockdown fatigue ~ a proposed solution
Have ya just had enough ?
Is it fair to say that even though everybody is going through the same stuff, you find it hard to believe or understand?
Lockdown is not easy for anybody. Too much time to think, too much time for home projects and not enough time socialising?
To keep it short and simple for ya today folks.
We make our lives be one of happy contentment or headache filled misery. Yup! Just like that.
So how can we change from one to the other?
The forced nature of how life has changed due to the pandemic can bring about a lot of feelings and emotions, pissed off for example, tired of the days and nights blending into one another. We can find ourselves unsure if Monday is Wednesday or Saturday.
We may become frustrated with our partner or our kids, it is very possible and justifiable that we are angry. Angry at the corona virus, yes absolutely. An important idea or concept to understand is that we might find ourselves angry at a virus that we cannot see, we cannot understand. This in itself can make the frustrations leak out sideways and get pointed in the wrong direction.
The important idea is to know that our frustrartions are real and very justified, these feelings are not any person's fault though.
Not your sibling's, not your parent's, not your children's and not your government's. It is just the way it is.
Funny how we can adapt and alter our lives around the corona virus. The entire world has gone through and still is going through some major changes. And this creates another area where our frustrations can be born from. We, the humans, typically do not like changes.
Just because everybody is experiencing something similar during this pandemic and the lockdowns do not make it any easier. Accepting these facts and understanding that not everyone feels the same as you and also knowing that there are others out there who are having a very hard time may help you gain a little fraction of gratitude in your own life.
Yes it is a tough time. Yes there are a lot of changes. Yes this has been one of the weirdest times in all of our lives.
So what ya gonna do about making the most of your time right now?
I propose to you that you get stuck in to Layman's Handbook, in life by author Aidan Mc Nally.
Oh wait that is me. Ah well it reads nice when I say it like that.
Seriously though,
Layman's Handbook is all about dealing with these little changes and helping us to make a few more changes too.
The handbook is for the easy days and the not so easy days. It can help you get into things like thinking and emotions, meditation, relaxation and a great benefit is beginning to learn a little more about understanding each other too.
You have a lot more time on your hands these days and have been looking for something to do?
Grab your copy of Layman's Handbook today.
Fill some of that spare time, that frustrated time with some easy reading.
I do not want any thanks in return, maybe leave a review when you are finished reading. And by the way, I do not think the Layman's Handbook is some "bible" to swear by.
Layman's Handbook is an easy to read and easy to follow book that I wrote when I found myself in a deep dark hole in life. I needed to use my time to crawl up out or that hole and so, I wrote many of my life learnings into an easy read book.
327 pages that is made up of 27 chapters.
Begin your journey with this book today and you will reap the benefits.
This is what I call a great solution to these unprecedented times. This is what I call the beginning of a change in self. A willingness on your part to make the first move. Take the first step in getting content in your life.
We ourselves are here to be nice to ourselves. Invest in yourself and your own well being today.
Links to find Layman's Handbook are all the amazon websites around the world except for amazon UK for paperback copies.( some glitch says not available)
Ebook copies "kindle" etc are available on all the amazon websites around the world.
Begin your journey today, "A journey to SELF". Simple tools to change how we live.
Your change and how you use this time right now is YOUR DECISION.
I can only present to you the option. The first step comes from you.
Grab your copy today.
Share this post, wherever you find it.
Thanks and have a great rest of lockdown & pandemic.
Is it fair to say that even though everybody is going through the same stuff, you find it hard to believe or understand?
Lockdown is not easy for anybody. Too much time to think, too much time for home projects and not enough time socialising?
To keep it short and simple for ya today folks.
We make our lives be one of happy contentment or headache filled misery. Yup! Just like that.
So how can we change from one to the other?
The forced nature of how life has changed due to the pandemic can bring about a lot of feelings and emotions, pissed off for example, tired of the days and nights blending into one another. We can find ourselves unsure if Monday is Wednesday or Saturday.
We may become frustrated with our partner or our kids, it is very possible and justifiable that we are angry. Angry at the corona virus, yes absolutely. An important idea or concept to understand is that we might find ourselves angry at a virus that we cannot see, we cannot understand. This in itself can make the frustrations leak out sideways and get pointed in the wrong direction.
The important idea is to know that our frustrartions are real and very justified, these feelings are not any person's fault though.
Not your sibling's, not your parent's, not your children's and not your government's. It is just the way it is.
Funny how we can adapt and alter our lives around the corona virus. The entire world has gone through and still is going through some major changes. And this creates another area where our frustrations can be born from. We, the humans, typically do not like changes.
Just because everybody is experiencing something similar during this pandemic and the lockdowns do not make it any easier. Accepting these facts and understanding that not everyone feels the same as you and also knowing that there are others out there who are having a very hard time may help you gain a little fraction of gratitude in your own life.
Yes it is a tough time. Yes there are a lot of changes. Yes this has been one of the weirdest times in all of our lives.
So what ya gonna do about making the most of your time right now?
I propose to you that you get stuck in to Layman's Handbook, in life by author Aidan Mc Nally.
Oh wait that is me. Ah well it reads nice when I say it like that.
Seriously though,
Layman's Handbook is all about dealing with these little changes and helping us to make a few more changes too.
The handbook is for the easy days and the not so easy days. It can help you get into things like thinking and emotions, meditation, relaxation and a great benefit is beginning to learn a little more about understanding each other too.
You have a lot more time on your hands these days and have been looking for something to do?
Grab your copy of Layman's Handbook today.
Fill some of that spare time, that frustrated time with some easy reading.
I do not want any thanks in return, maybe leave a review when you are finished reading. And by the way, I do not think the Layman's Handbook is some "bible" to swear by.
Layman's Handbook is an easy to read and easy to follow book that I wrote when I found myself in a deep dark hole in life. I needed to use my time to crawl up out or that hole and so, I wrote many of my life learnings into an easy read book.
327 pages that is made up of 27 chapters.
Begin your journey with this book today and you will reap the benefits.
This is what I call a great solution to these unprecedented times. This is what I call the beginning of a change in self. A willingness on your part to make the first move. Take the first step in getting content in your life.
We ourselves are here to be nice to ourselves. Invest in yourself and your own well being today.
Links to find Layman's Handbook are all the amazon websites around the world except for amazon UK for paperback copies.( some glitch says not available)
Ebook copies "kindle" etc are available on all the amazon websites around the world.
Begin your journey today, "A journey to SELF". Simple tools to change how we live.
Your change and how you use this time right now is YOUR DECISION.
I can only present to you the option. The first step comes from you.
Grab your copy today.
Share this post, wherever you find it.
Thanks and have a great rest of lockdown & pandemic.
February 26, 2021
Quick (short) piece 😂 ~ advert
The smiley face is meant to be there, yes.
Here it is, books!
TWO sons TOO many, memoir.
This was my first ever book. It is a total look back on a whole bunch of funky life shit.
It is all that stuff you never experienced. All those nice fun times and travels. All the heartache and pain one wishes to have never known.
The dream life and the worst nightmare all rolled in to one. A story nonetheless, my story. I lived it, I have loved it and I have lost in it.
This is a story about my life, the life I chose to live. Not a 9-5 life. Not a dream life. Plain and simple as it all occurred around me. How it occurred for me.
This memoir is a snippet of how it could be, a taste of how it is for another.
You will be very grateful in your thoughts and feelings. WOW factor a plenty, you will be so glad it is my story, when you finish. Enjoy.
17 & Life.
"A major crossroads or just a simple intersection"
Memoir.
My 2nd memoir.
A closer look at some of the earlier years. The teenage years.
We all arrive at points in our life where we wonder about our decisions. Times when the penny drops for us.
For me a major turning point of this nature was at the age of 17.
What is a major crossroads and why at 17?
It is the "blah year" the awkward year even.
No longer a sweet 16, the rites of passage, where did they go? No longer free and fanciful.
Though, not yet 18. Not yet legal in terms of all the adult stuff.
Revved up and ready to go, too old to be treated like a child anymore, yet not quite ready to be given full legal responsibility.
17 & Life, what do our decisions do for us? Is there a time in life when everything we say and do will be right? Will shape our entire life ahead? At 17 if I go left will the story all be different than if I go right?
Take this read and perhaps you will see fit to let the children have a read too (the teenagers that is).
My GRIEF the last 3 years.
This is a compilation of a journey through grief or with grief, would be fair to say.
Bringing together a mixture of poems and thought posts made through a period of 3 years. A progression record really.
The ebook is out there for any who might struggle along a journey of grief. A journey with grief, through grief.
A little funny take on this book is how I noticed looking back over it how my own writing had gaps in it. Gaps where I was not feeling too well to write anything. The gaps show me the extent of the pain and how much greater it is than I even realized.
For your own comfort in your journey with grief, I hope this can encourage you to write some stuff down as a method of helping to cope.
Layman's Handbook, in life.
"Simple tools to change how we live"
A journey to SELF.
Following on from a look back over my life and all the questions that had come with it. One day I came to a realization that I must begin to begin with answers.
No more questions. I was looking for answers for years.
Why did he die?
How did I end up in prison?
Where did I go wrong?
Why me?
Why are people being so cruel to me?
Ah yes, the questions. A turning point or a realization was that, how come if I begin my day with questions I am drained so much? How can I find a peace?
Begin with answers not questions. So how did this come about?
I never knew there were titles for such things that I was practicing in my life, "meditation" or "mindfulness".
What began to occur was some great clarity. As I was writing these things down more evidence of relaxation and good feelings were coming about.
Answers were the answer.
How can we arrive at such a place?
By building little blocks of "time out" and meditation into our lives. Soon the routine begins like a second nature to us and we form a habit. This habit of mindfulness becomes us. There lies a place or great contentment.
Not the confusion of our relationships. The harshness of life nor the difficulties we encounter every day.
I noted down many of the remedies I have discovered along my journey. I found some simple ways to deal with all of my own hurt and pain.
A hand book like a guide book sort or thing. A guide to help as we take on a journey into ourselves. One to pick up and leave down.
When I was searching for myself, I found there were so many self help books that were filled with "psycho babble" that they were more confusing than helping me get anywhere. I really felt the book had to be written. I became so aware or many many other people who were stuck just like me.
Layman's Handbook will become your own little private go-to book that can help as a an introductory to mind calming practices like meditation.
A practice guide to help ease an over active mind and a great story along the journey to help see the beauty and fun in life, all while finding it inside of SELF first.
I call it a self help book and many times think that is not enough as layman's Handbook is so much more than that, selfcare and selflove.
When you have a ton of questions, I wanted to help guide the way to yourself.
Finding language inside of ourselves that we thought was gone.
You also have a ton of answers
Enjoy your weekend.
All the usual good stuff, for those who may have forgotten.
Buy a book today with any of the links on my website.
Share this post to support an indie author, help me reach the people I have never met, yet.
Retweet and share on facebook so that others can find my books and my writing. This is the pay it forward practice we all love so much.
Here it is, books!
TWO sons TOO many, memoir.
This was my first ever book. It is a total look back on a whole bunch of funky life shit.
It is all that stuff you never experienced. All those nice fun times and travels. All the heartache and pain one wishes to have never known.
The dream life and the worst nightmare all rolled in to one. A story nonetheless, my story. I lived it, I have loved it and I have lost in it.
This is a story about my life, the life I chose to live. Not a 9-5 life. Not a dream life. Plain and simple as it all occurred around me. How it occurred for me.
This memoir is a snippet of how it could be, a taste of how it is for another.
You will be very grateful in your thoughts and feelings. WOW factor a plenty, you will be so glad it is my story, when you finish. Enjoy.
17 & Life.
"A major crossroads or just a simple intersection"
Memoir.
My 2nd memoir.
A closer look at some of the earlier years. The teenage years.
We all arrive at points in our life where we wonder about our decisions. Times when the penny drops for us.
For me a major turning point of this nature was at the age of 17.
What is a major crossroads and why at 17?
It is the "blah year" the awkward year even.
No longer a sweet 16, the rites of passage, where did they go? No longer free and fanciful.
Though, not yet 18. Not yet legal in terms of all the adult stuff.
Revved up and ready to go, too old to be treated like a child anymore, yet not quite ready to be given full legal responsibility.
17 & Life, what do our decisions do for us? Is there a time in life when everything we say and do will be right? Will shape our entire life ahead? At 17 if I go left will the story all be different than if I go right?
Take this read and perhaps you will see fit to let the children have a read too (the teenagers that is).
My GRIEF the last 3 years.
This is a compilation of a journey through grief or with grief, would be fair to say.
Bringing together a mixture of poems and thought posts made through a period of 3 years. A progression record really.
The ebook is out there for any who might struggle along a journey of grief. A journey with grief, through grief.
A little funny take on this book is how I noticed looking back over it how my own writing had gaps in it. Gaps where I was not feeling too well to write anything. The gaps show me the extent of the pain and how much greater it is than I even realized.
For your own comfort in your journey with grief, I hope this can encourage you to write some stuff down as a method of helping to cope.
Layman's Handbook, in life.
"Simple tools to change how we live"
A journey to SELF.
Following on from a look back over my life and all the questions that had come with it. One day I came to a realization that I must begin to begin with answers.
No more questions. I was looking for answers for years.
Why did he die?
How did I end up in prison?
Where did I go wrong?
Why me?
Why are people being so cruel to me?
Ah yes, the questions. A turning point or a realization was that, how come if I begin my day with questions I am drained so much? How can I find a peace?
Begin with answers not questions. So how did this come about?
I never knew there were titles for such things that I was practicing in my life, "meditation" or "mindfulness".
What began to occur was some great clarity. As I was writing these things down more evidence of relaxation and good feelings were coming about.
Answers were the answer.
How can we arrive at such a place?
By building little blocks of "time out" and meditation into our lives. Soon the routine begins like a second nature to us and we form a habit. This habit of mindfulness becomes us. There lies a place or great contentment.
Not the confusion of our relationships. The harshness of life nor the difficulties we encounter every day.
I noted down many of the remedies I have discovered along my journey. I found some simple ways to deal with all of my own hurt and pain.
A hand book like a guide book sort or thing. A guide to help as we take on a journey into ourselves. One to pick up and leave down.
When I was searching for myself, I found there were so many self help books that were filled with "psycho babble" that they were more confusing than helping me get anywhere. I really felt the book had to be written. I became so aware or many many other people who were stuck just like me.
Layman's Handbook will become your own little private go-to book that can help as a an introductory to mind calming practices like meditation.
A practice guide to help ease an over active mind and a great story along the journey to help see the beauty and fun in life, all while finding it inside of SELF first.
I call it a self help book and many times think that is not enough as layman's Handbook is so much more than that, selfcare and selflove.
When you have a ton of questions, I wanted to help guide the way to yourself.
Finding language inside of ourselves that we thought was gone.
You also have a ton of answers
Enjoy your weekend.
All the usual good stuff, for those who may have forgotten.
Buy a book today with any of the links on my website.
Share this post to support an indie author, help me reach the people I have never met, yet.
Retweet and share on facebook so that others can find my books and my writing. This is the pay it forward practice we all love so much.
February 23, 2021
Lockdown fatigue ~ something to do
The covid-19 pandemic has screwed with us all.
1st off,
Sincere sympathy is with any family who has lost a loved one to covid-19 virus.
It is my believe that the entire world shares this sentiment of sympathy with you. I also understand this is not of any great comfort to you.
Being in lockdown during the covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on many people of the world in many different ways.
Any adult who has lived their life and in their late 60's & 70's has been instructed to stay at home. How shocking do you think that is?
Youth have been stopped from going to school. So on both ends of a genrational spectrum, none have been spared.
Middle aged moms and dads have lost their jobs. Stress and worry of how to raise and feed their family as the world battles this covid-19 pandemic.
All have been effected and the reality of the harshness of covid-19 has yet to be realised. We will for years be dealing with covid-19 pandemic fall out.
Elderly losing the will to live, youth losing out on key development stages in life. Middle aged parents having too much stress that marriages break down and families are destroyed.
The covid-19 virus has taken many lives, yes this is indeed fact.
The hidden after effects we are only beginning to see. I discussed this in length a year ago. After 12 months of lockdown, more and more people are beginning to realise the same.
I offer to you a small token of a plan or a guide to use and practice to help ease these worries and stresses. To lighten the lockdown fatigue.
As an independent author, I must wear all the caps. So I am the writer, the publishers and the sales team. I do not have a team of people at the ready on twitter and facebook, waiting to click and click some more to advertise for me.
I do not have support of an industry who props up each other and advertises like crazy for the next new book out, or the perfect bookshop window to show off my latest writing achievenent.
I must reach you by whatever means I can.
I advertise to you today
Layman's Handbook in life.
This book is written by me and lived by me. It is self help made easy. Self love some might call it.
The subtitle is "simple tools to change how we live".
And furthermore, "A journey to SELF"
I have lived an adventurous life for many years. Many escapades of seeking out fun & laughter.
Plenty of serious moments too though.
Through some very hard moments in my life, I felt I had to change. I felt I needed to find a way. Luckily for me I did find a way and am able to share posts like this with you today.
I was met with challeneges in life. I struggled to understand. I cried a lot! I questioned every inch of my being. I questioned every particle in existence in our world.
I began to see things/stuff much clearer. I began to learn more about myself.
Through meditation and an all around attitude in life of slowing things down, I began to feel happy again. I began to recognise the simplicity in life. My appreciation began to grow back, so to speak.
I began to notice how I worked on the inside. I endured so much pain that it was almost like I had nowhere else to turn. Only in, to look inside. To learn about the gaping hole inside of myself. Yup a very deep and damaged hole.
I jotted things down as I recalled them. I compiled a book that I called a handbook. Why a handbook?
I wanted to offer a guide to anybody else who might have touched on some of the deep hurrful stuff I had also experienced.
Self help, self love, self care.
The handbook is not a system to live by. It is 27 chapters filled with tidbits of how I learned to meditate, communicate, feel, live and gain contentment. A handbook that you can revisit. Not a preachy book to lay out some form of formula for life.
Make it yours.
Help me reach people who might be in desperate need of some help. Help me to help others by sharing this blog post today.
I experienced lockdown before. I also experienced locked up before. Are they different?
Not in the form of pandemic lockdown, no. I became locked down inside of my own world of hurt and pain. I was locked down by life's tribulations. Nonetheless, a place I never wish for my worst enemy to ever have to visit. A prison is an easy place to survive. A prison inside of ourselves, not too easy. For this reason, my own understanding of such I wish to share with you today & ask that you share this far and wide.
I have found that our mind and our emotions are very powerful tools in our lives. When we can connect a few dots here and there, these tools become very powerful.
By you taking a journey to self with layman's handbook, you can unlock these kinds of powerful tools for yourself.
Maybe you struggle with getting out of bed each day, then a self help book might make sense for you. As society recognises self help as an aid for someone in this kind of predicament.
Layman's Handbook is more than self help. This is self care and self love.
Maybe you want to succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Layman's Handbook in life can help you realise your full potential.
By you sharing this post for me today, you help me in reaching others just like you and me.
You help me by spreading word about my book. You help others by bringing my book to them.
We can keep on connecting the dots and we can unlock very powerful thoughts and emotions.
A link to Layman's Handbook will be provided below.
Self help is not only about getting out of bed in the morning. Helping self to succeed is massive too.
Thank you for reading and I hope to see that little notification pop up letting me know that you shared this post far and wide.
There has never been a more proper time to help people grow out of this pandemic covid-19 lockdown
Layman's Handbook in life, by Aidan Mc Nally
Simple tools to change how we live.
A journey to SELF.
Succeed
Elevate
Live
Free
S ~ E ~ L ~ F
Our mental health is worth this post share today.
1st off,
Sincere sympathy is with any family who has lost a loved one to covid-19 virus.
It is my believe that the entire world shares this sentiment of sympathy with you. I also understand this is not of any great comfort to you.
Being in lockdown during the covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on many people of the world in many different ways.
Any adult who has lived their life and in their late 60's & 70's has been instructed to stay at home. How shocking do you think that is?
Youth have been stopped from going to school. So on both ends of a genrational spectrum, none have been spared.
Middle aged moms and dads have lost their jobs. Stress and worry of how to raise and feed their family as the world battles this covid-19 pandemic.
All have been effected and the reality of the harshness of covid-19 has yet to be realised. We will for years be dealing with covid-19 pandemic fall out.
Elderly losing the will to live, youth losing out on key development stages in life. Middle aged parents having too much stress that marriages break down and families are destroyed.
The covid-19 virus has taken many lives, yes this is indeed fact.
The hidden after effects we are only beginning to see. I discussed this in length a year ago. After 12 months of lockdown, more and more people are beginning to realise the same.
I offer to you a small token of a plan or a guide to use and practice to help ease these worries and stresses. To lighten the lockdown fatigue.
As an independent author, I must wear all the caps. So I am the writer, the publishers and the sales team. I do not have a team of people at the ready on twitter and facebook, waiting to click and click some more to advertise for me.
I do not have support of an industry who props up each other and advertises like crazy for the next new book out, or the perfect bookshop window to show off my latest writing achievenent.
I must reach you by whatever means I can.
I advertise to you today
Layman's Handbook in life.
This book is written by me and lived by me. It is self help made easy. Self love some might call it.
The subtitle is "simple tools to change how we live".
And furthermore, "A journey to SELF"
I have lived an adventurous life for many years. Many escapades of seeking out fun & laughter.
Plenty of serious moments too though.
Through some very hard moments in my life, I felt I had to change. I felt I needed to find a way. Luckily for me I did find a way and am able to share posts like this with you today.
I was met with challeneges in life. I struggled to understand. I cried a lot! I questioned every inch of my being. I questioned every particle in existence in our world.
I began to see things/stuff much clearer. I began to learn more about myself.
Through meditation and an all around attitude in life of slowing things down, I began to feel happy again. I began to recognise the simplicity in life. My appreciation began to grow back, so to speak.
I began to notice how I worked on the inside. I endured so much pain that it was almost like I had nowhere else to turn. Only in, to look inside. To learn about the gaping hole inside of myself. Yup a very deep and damaged hole.
I jotted things down as I recalled them. I compiled a book that I called a handbook. Why a handbook?
I wanted to offer a guide to anybody else who might have touched on some of the deep hurrful stuff I had also experienced.
Self help, self love, self care.
The handbook is not a system to live by. It is 27 chapters filled with tidbits of how I learned to meditate, communicate, feel, live and gain contentment. A handbook that you can revisit. Not a preachy book to lay out some form of formula for life.
Make it yours.
Help me reach people who might be in desperate need of some help. Help me to help others by sharing this blog post today.
I experienced lockdown before. I also experienced locked up before. Are they different?
Not in the form of pandemic lockdown, no. I became locked down inside of my own world of hurt and pain. I was locked down by life's tribulations. Nonetheless, a place I never wish for my worst enemy to ever have to visit. A prison is an easy place to survive. A prison inside of ourselves, not too easy. For this reason, my own understanding of such I wish to share with you today & ask that you share this far and wide.
I have found that our mind and our emotions are very powerful tools in our lives. When we can connect a few dots here and there, these tools become very powerful.
By you taking a journey to self with layman's handbook, you can unlock these kinds of powerful tools for yourself.
Maybe you struggle with getting out of bed each day, then a self help book might make sense for you. As society recognises self help as an aid for someone in this kind of predicament.
Layman's Handbook is more than self help. This is self care and self love.
Maybe you want to succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Layman's Handbook in life can help you realise your full potential.
By you sharing this post for me today, you help me in reaching others just like you and me.
You help me by spreading word about my book. You help others by bringing my book to them.
We can keep on connecting the dots and we can unlock very powerful thoughts and emotions.
A link to Layman's Handbook will be provided below.
Self help is not only about getting out of bed in the morning. Helping self to succeed is massive too.
Thank you for reading and I hope to see that little notification pop up letting me know that you shared this post far and wide.
There has never been a more proper time to help people grow out of this pandemic covid-19 lockdown
Layman's Handbook in life, by Aidan Mc Nally
Simple tools to change how we live.
A journey to SELF.
Succeed
Elevate
Live
Free
S ~ E ~ L ~ F
Our mental health is worth this post share today.
February 19, 2021
Covid - wondering about it 2021
Covid-19 they call it.
Makes me wonder a little bit. This is 2021, so does this mean we have 2 years with this? Almost, is the harsh fact.
Some simple sruff I have noticed and have been left wondering, how? Why? And why not? Let me play some of this stuff out for ya.
Governments,.
The world over have been caught out by covid-19. No one nation has had any clue what to do about covid and their respective societies. For this reason they have become a focus of blame. The blame game is always easy and why not use the covid situation to change your government?
It has become a tough job for any politician in any part of the world. They are not free from blame though, this is the tricky piece. It would be better to direct the blame and express your opinion for the issues where your government may have failed you and not only to pick holes in covid response by your politicians. Use your covid response disgust in a way where the underlying issues are brought to the fore.
You were unhapoy with your government before covid ever happened. Think about it.
They just got the shitty job of being at the helm when it hit. The fact your government continues to make terrible decisions in the face of covid, well thats a whole and other story.
What can you do though? You have been rendered powerless by lockdown restrictions, social distancing rules and guidelines, you may have even found yourself out of work, depressed, sick of looking at your cooker and so sick of cooking meals that somedays you do not even want to eat.
Covid-19 has been tough for everyone, though this brings no satisfacrion to anybody.
To satisfy yourself for a little bit today or this week, take some time and make a phone call to your government office and raise concern for the issue thatt has bothered you the most. This is part of their job, they have to deal with you as you have given them their place in office.
Any government official will begin to listen when the phones are ringing off the chain. They take a nice hefty paycheck and have confidence that you will do nothing to take that from them. It is your civic duty to demabd results of your elected officials. The only way to bring about change is take action in the direction of the change you wish to see.
Civic duty and why we are to blame.
Yup me and you, we are individuals who make up our society. Our actions make the whole thing go tick tock.
Let me join a couole of dots for ya.
The guidelines, restrictions and curfews in place around the world are all wonderful and beautfiul even. The requirements though have rested on each and every individual, yup! You and me.
We must wear a mask, this is fair enough. We do this as a selfless act, an act of where it is not to protect me from catching the virus, we do it so as not to spread the virus. For this reason we wear masks. Many have rebelled and put up resistance to this as they could not see how wearing a mask did anything to save themselves from catching covid-19. The point being it is not something you do for yourself, you do it for your own society, for the people around you.
Wearing of the masks is to prevent the spread in your own immediate area.
Hand washing.
This again is your own responsibility. All the shops require you to wear a mask to enter and be served. There is also a requirement to sanitize your hands as you enter.
Here is the kicker though, they have not been providing you soap and water to wash your hands. Alcohol sprays have been used to kill the virus from your hands.
If you use them regularly you are doing your bit and making the real attempts to reduce the spread of the virus.
If any government around the world could have confidence that the society they represent would stay clean all of the time, the restrictions could be less and society could be moving again.
Tying things together and only as I see 'em too.
A machine was introduced in march 2020 as a way of cleaning hospital rooms quickly as the world was falling apart. Rooms were needed and needed to be sterilised rapidly. The machine uses black light or UV rays to clean, as the UV rays kill the corona virus. It is a funny looking machine and it zaps the light with the UV rays all around the room, making it sterilised.
What was discovered though was that the UV rays did indeed kill the virus however it did not clean away the dead cells. Apparently new live cirus could then be brought into the room by way of a new patient and the virus could somehow multiply faster by occupying the cells of the dead virus and the multiplying factor was enhanced.
For this reason the UV machine thing was kind of axed as there was still a need for soap and cloths and people to clean the room as the dead virus cells needed to be washed away.
Let's connect these dots.
You have been entering shops wearing masks and using minimal alcohol sprays to your hands for over a year now. Alcohol kills the virus. How many times after the alcohol use have you washed your hands with soap and water? How many times have you washed away the dead virus cells from your own hands?
Keeping in mind that the UV light cleaning machine was great at killing the virus though not great at cleaning it.
So, cleaning your hands with alcohol kills the virus, next time you do the alcohol thing for say 4 or 5 times in a day, pay attention to the stuff that washes off your hands when you get to soap and water.
Perhaps we could demand of all the shops to provide soap and water and not alcohol spray only.
To quote the mighty JFK "ask not what your country can do for you..............."
Yup! Again.
You are responsible as an individual to do what is right for your own society. That is your civic duty. Wash your hands with soap and water 0 or 20 times a day. Is that really that hard?
Telephone and complain to your politicians about politcal issues. Remove the lockdown resteictions by washing your hands with soap and water and wear masks. Avoid contact when and where possible and maintain social distancing, which kinda means, don't be around people for too long.
Ah yes I myself am a mighty one to preach. I am not preaching though. I have just travelled 10k miles around the globe recently and I got to see stuff from other countries perspectives.
I saw, shops that provided alcohol spray gel in dispensers operated by a foot pedal, immediately next to these were wash hand basins with soap dispensers and a foot pedal to turn on the water. Mind you, you only got to those dispensers and entered the store after a person took a temperature reading from you.
I will discuss the various complaints I have about the travel in another post later on.
For now consider what I have mentioned and take charge of doing your part to remove restrictions.
There are no reasons any business need be closed right now.
How many of you will take this serious enough to comment?
It is on you, not your government
Happy weekend folks.
Makes me wonder a little bit. This is 2021, so does this mean we have 2 years with this? Almost, is the harsh fact.
Some simple sruff I have noticed and have been left wondering, how? Why? And why not? Let me play some of this stuff out for ya.
Governments,.
The world over have been caught out by covid-19. No one nation has had any clue what to do about covid and their respective societies. For this reason they have become a focus of blame. The blame game is always easy and why not use the covid situation to change your government?
It has become a tough job for any politician in any part of the world. They are not free from blame though, this is the tricky piece. It would be better to direct the blame and express your opinion for the issues where your government may have failed you and not only to pick holes in covid response by your politicians. Use your covid response disgust in a way where the underlying issues are brought to the fore.
You were unhapoy with your government before covid ever happened. Think about it.
They just got the shitty job of being at the helm when it hit. The fact your government continues to make terrible decisions in the face of covid, well thats a whole and other story.
What can you do though? You have been rendered powerless by lockdown restrictions, social distancing rules and guidelines, you may have even found yourself out of work, depressed, sick of looking at your cooker and so sick of cooking meals that somedays you do not even want to eat.
Covid-19 has been tough for everyone, though this brings no satisfacrion to anybody.
To satisfy yourself for a little bit today or this week, take some time and make a phone call to your government office and raise concern for the issue thatt has bothered you the most. This is part of their job, they have to deal with you as you have given them their place in office.
Any government official will begin to listen when the phones are ringing off the chain. They take a nice hefty paycheck and have confidence that you will do nothing to take that from them. It is your civic duty to demabd results of your elected officials. The only way to bring about change is take action in the direction of the change you wish to see.
Civic duty and why we are to blame.
Yup me and you, we are individuals who make up our society. Our actions make the whole thing go tick tock.
Let me join a couole of dots for ya.
The guidelines, restrictions and curfews in place around the world are all wonderful and beautfiul even. The requirements though have rested on each and every individual, yup! You and me.
We must wear a mask, this is fair enough. We do this as a selfless act, an act of where it is not to protect me from catching the virus, we do it so as not to spread the virus. For this reason we wear masks. Many have rebelled and put up resistance to this as they could not see how wearing a mask did anything to save themselves from catching covid-19. The point being it is not something you do for yourself, you do it for your own society, for the people around you.
Wearing of the masks is to prevent the spread in your own immediate area.
Hand washing.
This again is your own responsibility. All the shops require you to wear a mask to enter and be served. There is also a requirement to sanitize your hands as you enter.
Here is the kicker though, they have not been providing you soap and water to wash your hands. Alcohol sprays have been used to kill the virus from your hands.
If you use them regularly you are doing your bit and making the real attempts to reduce the spread of the virus.
If any government around the world could have confidence that the society they represent would stay clean all of the time, the restrictions could be less and society could be moving again.
Tying things together and only as I see 'em too.
A machine was introduced in march 2020 as a way of cleaning hospital rooms quickly as the world was falling apart. Rooms were needed and needed to be sterilised rapidly. The machine uses black light or UV rays to clean, as the UV rays kill the corona virus. It is a funny looking machine and it zaps the light with the UV rays all around the room, making it sterilised.
What was discovered though was that the UV rays did indeed kill the virus however it did not clean away the dead cells. Apparently new live cirus could then be brought into the room by way of a new patient and the virus could somehow multiply faster by occupying the cells of the dead virus and the multiplying factor was enhanced.
For this reason the UV machine thing was kind of axed as there was still a need for soap and cloths and people to clean the room as the dead virus cells needed to be washed away.
Let's connect these dots.
You have been entering shops wearing masks and using minimal alcohol sprays to your hands for over a year now. Alcohol kills the virus. How many times after the alcohol use have you washed your hands with soap and water? How many times have you washed away the dead virus cells from your own hands?
Keeping in mind that the UV light cleaning machine was great at killing the virus though not great at cleaning it.
So, cleaning your hands with alcohol kills the virus, next time you do the alcohol thing for say 4 or 5 times in a day, pay attention to the stuff that washes off your hands when you get to soap and water.
Perhaps we could demand of all the shops to provide soap and water and not alcohol spray only.
To quote the mighty JFK "ask not what your country can do for you..............."
Yup! Again.
You are responsible as an individual to do what is right for your own society. That is your civic duty. Wash your hands with soap and water 0 or 20 times a day. Is that really that hard?
Telephone and complain to your politicians about politcal issues. Remove the lockdown resteictions by washing your hands with soap and water and wear masks. Avoid contact when and where possible and maintain social distancing, which kinda means, don't be around people for too long.
Ah yes I myself am a mighty one to preach. I am not preaching though. I have just travelled 10k miles around the globe recently and I got to see stuff from other countries perspectives.
I saw, shops that provided alcohol spray gel in dispensers operated by a foot pedal, immediately next to these were wash hand basins with soap dispensers and a foot pedal to turn on the water. Mind you, you only got to those dispensers and entered the store after a person took a temperature reading from you.
I will discuss the various complaints I have about the travel in another post later on.
For now consider what I have mentioned and take charge of doing your part to remove restrictions.
There are no reasons any business need be closed right now.
How many of you will take this serious enough to comment?
It is on you, not your government
Happy weekend folks.
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