Five Minute Friday - Dare

Dare to take that first step in uncharted territories

Dare to push the boundaries

Dare to dream what looks impossible

Dare to take the road less travelled

Dare to keep trying even when failure looks imminent

Dare to be different

For it's not in keeping with the norm that extraordinary things are born.

Written for: Five Minute Friday

Have an extraordinary day.

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My First Poem - The Story

For the Write Tribe Festival - Rediscovering your blogging groove

Day 7 - Tell a story

My story today is about how I started writing Poetry.

I think it was around the year 2004 I remember waking up one morning with a poem in my head. I must have dreamt it because with the words I could also visualise the poem.

I woke up feeling amazed, like I had somehow had a glimpse of the other side and participated in a cosmic dance with someone. It was the most serene feeling I had, yet exhilarating and joyous.  The closest I can explain is circus trapeze artists swinging and dipping and swaying and flying but in bands of colour.

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Thereafter, I woke up many times with a poem in my head.

And unlike dreams that are forgotten soon after waking, these poems stayed with me for hours and I felt a compulsion to pen them down.

So here was the first poem I ever wrote (also on my post  Sometimes the heart sees ):

I see you in my dreams

In a cosmic dance that fuses my soul with yours eternally

In perfect symmetry and harmony

Spiralling through space and time, sometimes apart, 

Yet always together and never too far

There is no greater joy

For my dreams are truly my reality 

And loving you is my only destiny

Listen to Lara's Theme and imagine 2 bands of colour in a circus trapeze act together and then perhaps my poem will make more sense. 

Share your story of how you started writing or poetry or anything special for you. 

Happy Dreaming.

Related posts:
Day 1 - Write a List  - When Life Disappoints
Day 2 - Answer a Question -  What Would You Wish For
Day 3 - Book Review - Afterlife of Billy Fingers
Day 4 - A Link Post - Linking some blog linkups
Day 5 -  Pulling Tips Out Of A Bag
Day 6 - Inequality - By Whose Yardstick?

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Inequality - By whose yardstick?

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Day 6 - Ask a question on Inequality

Inequality is defined by the Free Dictionary as

The lack of equality, as of opportunity, treatment, or status

We find inequality in all things: there is educational inequality, social inequality, gender inequality, wealth inequality,  We are always comparing one against the other. We are either too thin or too fat, too short or too tall, rich or poor, aristocratic or uncultured, educated or illiterate, powerful or meek, in high positions or low ones, highly paid or not paid enough, favoured or picked on, privileged or underprivileged. We've even brought discrimination into religious beliefs. And by this list alone, inequality paints a pretty bleak picture.

But the Libra in me needs to look at both sides of the coin.  Inequality provides us the means to improve our lot in life, to grow and expand our knowledge. Perhaps even more importantly to learn to make peace with our lives, to learn humility and compassion, to learn to overcome hardships, to share and help, and to learn contentment. For if all things were equal and there was nothing more to do, then what would be the point of life itself?

There is of course gender inequality that does need to be addressed particularly in patriarchal societies where women and girls really do get the raw end of the stick. But perhaps if we shifted our focus to the wonderful things that women and girls have achieved rather than focussing on the atrocities, we might create that shift in thinking. You know, collective consciousness is powerful.

This morning as I was reading my book these words jumped out at me:

"Never assume that anyone is fortunate or unfortunate because of the way things appear to be. Fortune or misfortune is just a human way of measuring."

~ Billy Fingers

And that got me thinking about inequality from a spiritual perspective.

Can I be sure that your life is better than mine or that mine is better than someone elses? We each walk our own path and we each have a pre planned blueprint of our life.  By whose yardstick do we measure equality? So my question is:

Do we have the right to change the course of someone's soul learning by obliterating inequality?

Probably not and chances are that we will be unable to.

We do however have the right to fight for the injustices and atrocities that are conducted in the name of inequality or by circumstances created by it. And along the way we shall win some and we shall lose some and perhaps fighting to obliterate injustices and atrocities and thereby create a better world is the point of it all.

May you find the means to make peace with your life.

Related posts:
Day 1 - Write a List  - When Life Disappoints
Day 2 - Answer a Question -  What Would You Wish For
Day 3 - Book Review - Afterlife of Billy Fingers
Day 4 - A Link Post - Linking some blog linkups
Day 5 -  Pulling Tips Out Of A Bag


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Pulling Tips Out Of A Bag

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Day 5 - Write A Tip Post

I struggled to find a topic and write a whole lot of tips around that.

So instead I thought I'd just pull a few out of the bag

On Writing:

• Cultivate your own unique style and forget about the many Do's and Don'ts you'll come across. It's not in keeping with the norm that extraordinary things are born (Read my full post on Writing Tips)

On Strengths and Weaknesses

• Don't waste your time on overcoming weaknesses. Focussing on weaknesses makes you mediocre. Focus instead on your strengths and become great. 

On Life

• Make peace with your life just the way it is and then go with the flow

Share a few of your tips on all of the above and throw in any other favourite ones too.


Be blessed, stay blessed.


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Day 2 - Answer a Question -  What Would You Wish For
Day 3 - Book Review - Afterlife of Billy Fingers
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A Link Post

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Day 4 - Link Post

There are many blogging linkups I've joined over the last 3 years.  If you're in a blogging dessert then one of the ways to get back into blogging is to link up with some blogging prompts.

Here are some of my favourites (other than The Write Tribe prompts)

ABC Wednesday -  A weekly Wednesday linkup. This is such a versatile linkup. You can post photos, poems, prose, songs. And there are some interesting posts to read too.

Ruchira's Wordless Wednesday - Post a picture and nothing more, or add a few words to make it a word-less Wednesday or write many words. There are no rules to Ruchira's Wordless Wednesday. And that's why I love it.

Thursday Photo Challenge  - Post a picture on the weekly prompt. Some very enterprising photographers in this group. The prompts are great too as they are generic and not rigid.

Six Word Saturday - Post six words that describe your life in that week.  You can leave it at that or write a long post. Your choice. Some very interesting bloggers in this group.

Sundays In My City - Say it in pictures on a Sunday. Again you can keep it short or tell a story. It's an enjoyable trip around the world.

Poet's United - A very versatile poetry site. Write a poem on their Midweek Motif prompt or just write a poem that comes to mind and link up on Sunday at their Poetry Pantry

Share some of your favourites and I hope I'll see you around at some or all of these.

Happy Writing.


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Book Review

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Day 3 - Write a Review

I am convinced that books find me. So when a friend shared a picture from the facebook page The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, I was intrigued, And from there I was led to buy the kindle version of the book. So here is my review of that book.

Book: The Afterlife Of Billy Fingers
Author: Annie Kagan

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What the book is about

In The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death, Kagan shares the extraordinary story of her after death communications (ADC) with her brother Billy, who began speaking to her just weeks after his unexpected death. taken from Amazon.com

Billy described to Annie his journey back to his spiritual home and along the way he relayed some delightful insights into life and death.


My views on the book

Written in simple language, it was a very easy read. There were parts of the book particularly towards the end that seemed a bit far fetched but of course this is about the afterlife so who knows what really abounds there.

On the whole it was uplifting and inspirational, a book you could pick up and refer to again and again. I am reading the book again and I find that I am enjoying it more on the second read and the messages seem deeper and more meaningful.

Some quotes from the book to give you a little glimpse into what you might expect from it:

A shift in perspective makes the particles in your Universe dance to new possibilities

We signed up to do this dance together before we were born

Get rid of beliefs that keep you running around following rules others have set down

I enjoyed the book and its messages resonated with me as a lot of what I read was what I believe too. Maybe the Universe sent this along as confirmation of my own beliefs.

If you are on a spiritual journey, this book may provide the means to expand your mind. If you don't believe in the afterlife, it may open your mind to that possibility.  And if you are steadfast in your own beliefs then it may just be an interesting story to read and perhaps ponder over another day.

My rating: 4 stars and highly recommended.

Happy Reading

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What would you wish for?

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Day 2 - Answer a question

The question I've chosen today is:

If God granted you one wish for yourself what would it be?

The reason I say "for yourself" is because if it was just any one wish we would either ask something for humanity or for members of our family etc. The idea is to answer this for oneself. But the question is not an easy one to answer.

The categories one could wish things for generally fall into these: fame, health, wealth, travel, love, spiritual enlightenment or some miracle one is hoping for.

I don't seek fame as with that comes great responsibility and many sacrifices. Besides I would not want fame as a granted wish but one I have worked for.

To ask for health could alter the course of one's destiny. To change the balance of karma inevitably means there are other consequences to bear.

Having a great abundance of wealth and spending it for the betterment of humanity could of course benefit many. But wealth is such a transient thing.

Travel as a wish simply does not appeal. I've had the good fortune of seeing a lot of the world. Travel for me is now about visiting people and travelling to places of pilgrimage. If God so wills it and if it is in my destiny, then someday I will visit the places I want to see. Travel for me is a wasted wish.

Asking for a miracle sounds exciting, but what would I ask for? Miracles are all around us, every day of our lives, if we view life itself as a miracle.

Besides all of the above are all temporary things, here today gone tomorrow. I would want to ask for something more permanent. Something that would remain with me forever.

As for love, I'm sure that the Lord made a soulmate for all of us and when the time is right, that person will appear in our lives.  All things happen in Divine timing. Why hasten the inevitable? And maybe by speeding up the process, we create issues for ourselves when we are not in alignment for that meeting. For true love comes when we are spiritual vibrational matches and that takes time.

Spiritual enlightenment would be the ultimate, but to just have it bestowed, somehow robs me of the pleasure of discovering it for myself in this lifetime and across others.

In the end there is only one wish that would keep the balance of all the things I am meant to experience, discover and achieve on my own and live with me eternally. And that wish is to have a glimpse of that Great Spirit, my beloved Lord Rama. To spend even a moment in time with Him here on Earth would bring me joy and bliss that cannot be described in words. And having experienced that, what else could I ask for?

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What would you wish for?

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When Life Disappoints

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Day 1 Write a List

About 3 months ago I started a Daily Thoughts series on my face book page Suzy's Ilation. When things aren't going well or some glitch appears in my life, I look back at the thoughts and find one that lifts me up or gives me that little impetus to go on, or helps me move on from a situation. So here is a list of those 10 thoughts that keep me going when life disappoints:

1. All things fall into place at the right time, in the right way

2. What is in your destiny, no one can steal
    What is not, you won't get though you pursue with zeal

3. Sometimes it's just not your day (let it go and move on)

4. Change your perspective

5. Accept that some things cannot be changed.

6. There are no right or wrong roads. All roads lead to your destiny

7. When life overwhelms, prioritise and focus on the things that matter

8. We reach our destination one step at a time

9. The first step is the hardest to take

10. Be patient. Life needs to unfold slowly.

Rather than add my notes and influence your thoughts, I thought I would let you ponder on these and interpret them in your own way. I know that at different times, they have meant different things to me.

Share some of your thoughts. What inspires you to keep going and how do you console yourself when things don't go to plan?

Inspire someone, be inspired, stay inspired.



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