My 20 Valentines

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow and so forgive me for being uber "cooorny" right now. Just that...stumbled on a local Nescafe advertisement that really brings back a particular loverly youthful carefree memory...

I was 20 and so was he...

Course' I didn't look anything like this girl back then.I was really skinny to start with. I was in torn faded jeans and had on a shirt that boldly screamed "Nike". Doubt if I looked anything sexy' but we had bikes..ye'....

I remember biking in the rain...near the bay. I bet I looked freaky ha! ha!. When he reminds me I cringe...embarrassed you could say. Oh' but then how many sweethearts get to really silly run through a downpour huh?. Those were our "who gives a damn days".I think somehow..it still is.

How many valentines have we had since then eh?...So..

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to everyone. This day isn't just for lovers splish splashing.It's an intimate wonderful celebration of being One..being brothers and sisters....being human...and being divine as well. And this Love transcends all borders and boundaries..cultural..religious..language...whatever...

Everybody wants love..Everybody is LOVE...

And to the boy back then who went crazy running in the rain with me, I Love You....and I'd really rather that we have a barbeque dinner at home instead of going out...but bring home a big round of pizza...thin slice..with shrimps on top....and a bottle of wine of course..

You know what I mean ;>

Spread the love everyone..mwah!

My Attachments

"Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!" - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

I was reading a chapter on "attachments" before sleeping last night. It wasn't really a new book I was perusing and I've read the same words months ago. However, last night every morsel of letter prismed brighter in my mind. Suddenly I knew what it was all about. I became truly educated in the lesson of attachment so to speak.

But I don't want to talk about attachments to you...merely recalling some years ago how I bravely put in place ( nicely though) a difficult relative who wanted me to confront another kin about the "choices" the latter was making in his life.

"It would fall into deaf ears, I exasperatedly said. Nobody wants to be told how to run his own life...certainly not someone over 30! It would be preposterous to assume that my concern or "advice" is welcome...Why it would be tactless and rude of me to even consider that he is unaware of his faults or errors.....and what if what you see as his mindless ways happens to be his preferred way of life...as I apparently see it?....The best we can do is to encourage and be available when he seeks for help or yes..advice..which I very much doubt would ever happen....

Which brings me back to attachments...and having to learn through painful profitable experience how I am one with those around me yet separate in entity..and I am not them...nor do I own them....and that there comes a point of trustingly letting go..and honoring that in as much as I learn from my mistakes...I too should allow others to learn from theirs...

That is the way of living...and a tipping point of love.