My Musings

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    Deep Questions on My Life

    Last night whilst perusing TikTok a good friend of mine sent me one that posed some great deep questions and I promised them, I would ponder it today and write my responses. If you were in a room with everyone you ever met, who would you look for first?I think this one is easy, without doubt it would be my mum. Being a fairly young adult when she died of breast cancer, I was ill equipped with the tragedy of it and how life would be so different following that event. There have been lots of major events in my life that I would wish to run past her, and…

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    How Do You Breathe

    How Do You Breathe Have you ever considered “How do you breathe?”. I would suggest it is definitely something that you do not think about much at all. Yet it is a skill that we are masters at, at a very young age, yet soon learn bad habits as we start to grow up. Any practice of spirituality, martial arts or exercise will require focussed attention on breathing, and if these key areas require such a basic function, why do we pay so little attention to the subject? As babies, we breathe fully into the bottom of the lungs and release gently. As adults, we lay over bad posture, with…

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    What Do You Want From A Friend

    What Do You Want From A Friend Have you ever considered the question “What Do You Want From A Friend“? Which leads nicely onto what, actually, is a friend? I, myself refer to many acquaintances and very few actual friends, yet I do this without actually pausing to consider my own definition. In my youth, Id have probably said it would be impossible to have a female friend. Don’t jump to slay me, I’m merely saying that I grew up in a time where there was an underlying bias. Not overt, rather hidden just below a surface. In fact, our learned terminology is often referred to as prejudiced, even when…

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    10 Depression Indicators

    10 Depression Indicators Sadly in this current world there is a sharp increase in depression, and Lockdown is front and centre of the reason, currently. Iv compiled a list of 10 Depression Indicators that you may find helpful in explaining your current mood. 1/ Sleeping Patterns Irregular2/ Perpetually Tired3/ Lacking Energy4/ Anxiety5/ Totally Stressed Out and Unable to Cope6/ Change in Appetite7/ Lack of Concentration8/ Lack of Motivation9/ Isolation10/ More Emotional One of the key signs that you are depressed is a change in your sleep. You may notice you are more restless throughout the night, and unable to get a good night’s sleep, despite how tired you may feel.…

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    Who Would You Like To Meet

    Who Would You Like To Meet Given all the impossible factors about time and place, who would you like to meet with? I’ll give you a free hand, so it can be anybody from the past and language is not a barrier. Depending on your personality there will be a variety of answers all based upon you, for instance, a famous artist or actor, a holy man, someone from your deceased family, sports personality, or comedian. Of course, there is no right or wrong here, but think about the opportunity. For me in particular, there is no value in meeting a family member long since past. If I did, having…

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    Football Thoughts

    Football Thoughts Id be interested in your football thoughts, particularly about what Im writing, also your own separate musings. Ever since I was little boy, I loved football, I played in under 11’s-14’s and school football, I was even lucky enough to be offered trials at West Ham. Where I lived I was absolutely blessed, we had an orchard behind us that had a small clearing big enough to play football on it, the trees served as good goalposts, we also had two parks, both with football pitches. So if you were a boy (in those days, only boys played) and wanted to play you could. My dad was a…

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    Does Music Move You

    Does Music Move You? It is a great question “Does Music Move You“? I am going to give it due thought and process. Many of my friends are indeed music lovers across a wide genre of music, and if you don’t know me well you may be surprised to know it does not interest me in the slightest. I do not hear what you hear. Let us look at that, I grew up with music regularly playing in the household, my parents always played their country and easy listening music, especially on a Sunday. My brothers and sisters always played their own music, which was very varied. I listened to…

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    Things I Need Less Of

    Things I Need Less Of There are many things I need less of in this world, and it is a good exercise to stop and consider, actually, what those things really are. My initial, top of the head thoughts are:NegativityNastinessWeightMeatComputer TechnologySickness For some while I have been removing people from my immediate circle (and facebook) who have even a slight negative bias. It is toxic and you can’t understand the physical and mental toll it actually does take on you, putting up with it and trying to reason with it. If you have tried and know it is a problem, then let it go. I have never been in favour…

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    Rule The World

    Rule The World Consider if you had magical powers and were able to rule the world, and introduce new thoughts, powers and laws. Ill have a write down of my musings on this. Add your own in the comments. 1/ Most important, happening straight away. Remove skin colour perception. So the would be no way of seeing a persons ethnicity, this would include, hair colour, eyes etc. In other words, you could recognise people, but not on their ethnicity based on a visual queue. Further, and this will be unpopular, I would remove all language and dialects to make a common understanding between everyone. 2/ If you are earning money,…

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    Are Cows Mindful

    Are Cows Mindful? There you have it in a nutshell, are cows mindful? The reason I ask is simply this, how could any creature exist, whatever its level of intelligence in a small area doing the same thing for the whole of its lifetime. Its imperative is to exist, therefore it eats, drinks and sleeps like every living thing. Im suggesting that a cow is so mindful of the moment, it can live that moment every single day and not appear bored or distracted from the task in hand. Could you, in all reason, stand in a field all day, eating and not get bored? Now you are going to…