Worry/Hope

[YinYang]

I also used to take my dog for walks late at night when I still lived in Pretoria, sometimes 11ish or 12ish at night. I also loved those walks, and I was never afraid. People sometimes passed me, and I never looked over my shoulder in case they had any agendas. The world will always reflect your perception of it back to you. I see it all the time, it is something I 'know' to be so. That's how you create.

I also smile and chat to strangers all the time, it's just for me a way to be, and it makes me happy. Yesterday I chatted to the guy who sits at the reception desk of our apartment building, and when I heard he's from Congo, he had my full attention. To me Congo conjures up horrific images, and to him, it's home, and the best place in the world. All he wants to do is go home. It's all a matter of perception. He said I should go see it, and I said "uhm......yeeeaaah....maybe one day...." He's a Hutu, so I wondered if I should bring up the Rwanda genocide, and then I did, and he laughed and said "we sort out our own quarrels!"

He's a good guy, always smiling. Last week my apartment flooded, and he ran up and helped me contain the water until the plumber arrived, and since then we're best buddies!

In the words of Oscar Wilde: "Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future." The guy who wrote "Amazing Grace" was a slave trader earlier in his life... It's indeed a weird world...

Ra: ...but who can know when an entity will open the gate to the present?

Oh yes, and I forgot to mention that the Afrikaans translation on this stone doesn't say "be still", it says "let go" ;-)