On Being Human

When times are tough and/or rough the response varies from person to person from "why the f ... me?" to "lets get on with it". Sometimes the answer to the first question evokes the response in the second question. Sometimes it doesnot.

What the f... is Ras raving about you may very well say....well at least you've read this far...

Well I am talking about many things, from the rough and tumble of life, to the things that happen to us externally and the invisible things that happen internally.

Like the loss of a friend, be they animal or mineral, or injury suffered in an accident, or the heartache of losing someone. Often far harder to resolve than the physical is the link between the head and the heart.

The head urges you to do this, but the heart pleads for another course of action. It is sometimes said the head is the practical, logical director whilst the heart is the emotional manager. Sometimes I think the head is not rational at all, only pretends to be because that is what society says we are supposed to do in certain scenarios.

For myself , the older I get the more convinced I am is that it is only by sharing our hearts with someone else that we can really express and do what we are and be what we want to be.

Yes I have been guilty of petulance, of wanting to get even, of sulking, of walking away from relationships because it doesnot suit my head, but I suppose I am lucky because it does not last long and the heart takes over again.

To all my friends, I love you all, and I hope that whatever is happening to you at the moment makes you gentler, yet stronger and more determined to being a better human with a richer heart.


....Ras