Too many miles on foot across London. I love the stilness of the night, You wont believe just how quiet everything is. Here is where I take off my mask.  I am developing my innerpeace by acnowledging and appreciating the situation, identifying my strengths , working on my weaknesses and evaluating my circle of friendships.  Embracing the self is to acknowledge the problem, let it come and deal with the emotions that come with it. IE - How are you feeling in the NOW?  It's not the stab in the back that kills you,it's when you turn around and see who is holding the knife.  Because usually the person that you were defending with your own life at some point and that hurts a lot to realise that the one you loved and trusted is holding the knife..  The body itself is a powerfull machine and can care for itself with a little help from you it can heal..  When the train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you dont throw your ticket away and jump off.  You sit still and trust the engineer.therefore trust yoursef no matter how dark it gets your siituation, you will end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them.  Not everyone has the same heart as you...  My life isn't perfect but I am thankful for everything I have.  Everyone wants to be your sun, but not me! I want to be your moon so I can light up your darkest moments when the sun is not around.  Happiness is having real friends  around at your side and being surrounded by love. 

ENJOYING THE OLD CLASSICS BY MACHELLE SHELTON

It is so seldom we can enjoy reading a novel let alone one of the old classics.  Our time is always dominated by work,people,family, household duties, demands of society and so on. I have always enjoyed reading and yet through life there was very little time to read because one was always busy doing something  more important for some other reason but now I am retired from teaching ,but still run my household, I can find a bit of time to catch up on what I really love to do: Reading the old cassics and reminding myself that life was enjoyable and not so strssful in the days that classics were written.  People took time for each other in the most serviceable ways.  

At this moment in time I am rereading the Novel Villette, by Charlotte Bronte and I am engrossed in the amusement of it. Written in 1853, the novel covers the tale of Lucy Snowe who after an unspecified distaster  leaves her native lands of England to end up (although a fictional place) on the continental city of Vilette, where she lands up teaching at a girls school..  Here I can relate to the many things she does at school from my own teaching experience.  The author Charlotte Bronte, also has the experience of teaching so she can relate in the novel the things that occcur at school and how it becomes entangled in ones  own life..  The book brings back the reality of life, where we are now even though our lives have enhanced dramatically, is it real? Is it necessary?  Do we need to be moving at such a fast pace that we lose the reality  of what life should be all about.. It makes us think what the values are we relate to in our own lives.. The book also brings out how people thrive on implicating themselves on other people's lives and it is so common these days yet on a complex level. Do we need that, do we need to shut down all the complications and live life in a more amiable way?  

Although there is much entanglement throughout the novel, it teaches us how to overcome weaknesses and to grow as a person.  It also allows us to understand isolation,subversion and distruption which occurs in daily life.  Can we find ways to redirect, or do we just hope to find solutions in the fast pace we live in today.?  I have found the book brings out many ideas and questions for me. I find it enjoyable reading and I am glad it allows me a wider vision than the simpe reading of a book.