How Do You See The World?

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

~ Wayne Dyer

IN MANY WAYS, WE LIVE WITH what we dream and create. Our lives reflect the energy we’ve been putting into them. If we believe people are always out to get us, that is the scenario we unwittingly create and see. If we believe that people are good at heart, that is what we tend to nurture in others and see.

Does that mean if we’ve always believed the world to be hostile, there’s no love in it? Or if we’ve always been loving, there is no hostility in the world? No. But that’s likely what we’re inclined to ‘notice’ more in our daily lives.

One might think that it’s only those who are safe and loved that can see a loving world, but in my experience, it’s often those who are vulnerable and in danger who see the love in the world.

Anne Frank, whose family faced mortal danger, took the time to jot down these words: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”

~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~

How do you see the world?

Heart-to-Heart

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C. S. Lewis

Dad and me

Sometimes when Dad tucked me in at night when I was a little girl, we’d have a heart-to-heart.

Once, maybe more than once, I’d tell him I didn’t want to go to sleep because what if I woke up and he was gone, or worse was in an accident and died.

I just couldn’t imagine life without him. The thought made my heart feel like it would pound out of my chest.

Dad would tell me he wasn’t going anywhere; he wasn’t going to die.

“You promise, Daddy?”

“I promise.”

Dad has always been my Plan B, even when I moved across the country. I knew that if I couldn’t figure something out, or if I was in trouble, Dad would make it right.

Even though I did not resort to Plan B much, I knew it was there and knowing it, gave me courage.

It has been eight weeks and two days since Dad passed away. And although I’m not a little girl anymore, some mornings I feel like my heart will pound out of my chest.

~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~

My World

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Maybe this world is another person’s hell. ~ Aldous Huxley

I’m one of those people who lives modestly and well within my means.

I don’t have a lot of stuff.

I am not a minimalist by any stretch of the imagination…

I have just never felt the need to keep up with the Joneses.

I live in a small urban apartment and pay reasonable rent.

My appliances and fixtures are circa 1960’s.

Excuse my mess!

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I love urban living. Everything I need is right there – at my fingertips.

My car is 12 years old. I use it mostly to travel to and from work.

Otherwise I walk…

to buy groceries

to my doctor’s and dentist’s appointments

to celebrate ‘Girl’s Night Out’

or just to take in the beauty of my neighbourhood.

The things I indulge in are traveling and clothing.

I am content. I have all I need and more.

I have a roof over my head.

I have food in my stomach.

My world might be another’s hell

or maybe for the majority of the planet

it is more accurate to say that my world would be all they have ever dreamed of.

How’s life in your world?