Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer

Whenever I hear this song I have to have a good chuckle. Not that the actual song is funny. I actually really like the song. It just makes me laugh because I remember when the song first came out someone asked : "Why is Elton John singing about Tony Danza?". I was finished! I laughed so much!! 😂😂😂

Chaos In This World

I sit and think about this world of ours. How did it become what it is today? A world infested with some people that have no morals, no respect for anyone or anything. No compassion. No empathy. Some people that are just down right cruel! 

The world is a very big place, and yet it actually is not at all. We are all in this world together. Well, most of us are. Other's? Hmmm. Other's just seem to have lost their way. 

The big wigs, or the elite as most know them, who think they are g-d (note I use a small letter "g" as I do not intend to disrespect the one and only true God that most of us believe in). These elite that are trying to take the freedom away from the people in this world by trying to control them.

Controlling them by forcing health choices on them that are unwarranted (my opinion). Controlling the people with technology, fuel prices, food prices and electricity consumption. It still boggles my mind that there is the Ukraine. A tiny, TINY little red dot in this world of ours and all because of that tiny little red dot and the war between Russia, we have to endure food prices that have shot through the roof, food shortages that are becoming more and more. What? How? How is it that the WHOLE frigging world relies on this tiny little red dot for food?? Please. Tell me another laughable joke! We have fruit farms, wine farms, dairy farms, chicken farms...you name it throughout the whole of South Africa (where I am) and yet we rely on the Ukraine. Makes no sense to me. I am sure Europe has many farms as well. I am not sure what is left in the USA considering that the little weasel, billythecreep, has bought up most of the farms, and those that are not bought by him, he is ensuring that those farmers suffer great losses by poisoning their crops!! Yes. That is what the nut is doing!! 

Then we have to endure load shedding here in South Africa. Now, I can fully understand that South Africa has load shedding because the ANC government, the ruling party, has taken South Africa from being a FIRST WORLD country to a third world country and beyond!! Over 27 or 28 years the ANC has destroyed EVERYTHING including our power stations! Load shedding started in 2007 in South Africa. Now, you have the UK, Germany, Spain and other countries in Europe that are having issues with gas, once again because of Russia and the Ukraine. But, HOW do these countries now all of a sudden have electricity issues? For heaven's sake Germany has all these wind farms!! These countries are FIRST WORLD countries!! How is it even possible that they now have electricity issues. No. It just does not add up!! You CANNOT tell me that these FIRST WORLD countries are having electricity issues! I refuse to buy into that BS! I think it is all to do with this whole thing about cleaner energy. All these scientists and energy regulators who believe that cleaner, renewable energy is necessary. As they say: "we want a cleaner, greener future". Sure, we ALL want to live healthier lives, but has it not been proven that moving away from coal to "cleaner energy" does not work! Perhaps it is not working because most people do not understand the difference between clean energy, green energy and renewable energy. Or perhaps the problem is that there is no one really in charge of trying to sort out the mess! Renewable energy is probably still the best such as solar energy and wind energy. But then we have the little weasel, billythecreep, who now claims to be a farmer, who on the other hand wants to block out the sun!!!! Have you ever???! Surely he, as a farmer as he now claims to be, should know that the sun is crucial to crops!!! What a nut! This goes to show how warped his mind is!  Never mind the fact that the sun is needed for solar energy! Then we have another nut who wants to implant chips into people's brains!! And then, the best is having electric vehicles....but yet the power grid is running out!! Oh my gosh, what a crazy world we live in!

Let me leave it at that and retreat into my own little world filled with the unconditional love of my two adorable cats, my loving family, friends and my beautiful garden filled with lush green plants and colourful flowers...my oasis that feels like I am in paradise far, far away from the rest of the world 😊 Relax and breathe Marina!😂

I've Hated This Woman

I’ve hated this woman. I’ve not loved her at full capacity. I’ve fed her lies and told her she wasn’t good enough and have allowed others to tell her she wasn't good enough. I’ve allowed her to be broken. I've allowed others to treat her dis-respectfully. I’ve allowed her to run through brick walls and battle for others who won’t even stand for her. I couldn’t stop individuals from abandoning her, yet I’ve seen her get up and stand to be a light to the world and love others despite all. I have stood paralyzed by fear while she fought battles in her mind, heart and soul.

This woman has screwed up many times, as a girlfriend, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, or as a friend, because she doesn’t always say or do the "right things". She has a smart mouth, and she has secrets. She has scars...because she has a history.

Some people love this woman, some like her, and some people don't care for her at all.

She has done good in her life. She has done bad in her life. She goes days without makeup, or shaving her legs sometimes. She doesn’t get dressed up half the time. She is random and sometimes silly. She will not pretend to be someone she is not. She is who she is.

At times she was clinging to the woman she had known and at the same time watching another materialise in the mirror before her.

Every mistake, failure, trial, disappointment, success, joy, and achievement has made her the woman she is today.

You can love her or not. But if she loves you, she will do it with her whole heart, and she will make no apologies for the way she is.

This Woman is a WARRIOR. She’s not perfect but God calls her WORTHY! She’s UNSTOPPABLE. Gracefully broken but beautifully standing. She is loved. She is life. She is transformation. She is Grace. She is BRAVE!

I am the source of my own happiness. I am. I am that which I am.

Dangerous Mind

Osho once said: "The mind, a beautiful servant, a dangerous master". This is quite a powerful quote! It really got me thinking. The stories you tell yourself about who you are affects how dangerous your mind can be.

Most people have all kinds of thoughts on a daily basis, some happy, loving, some sad, depressing, angry, and hateful. What we focus on, our mind gives us more of. So if we are in a good place and loving life, we tend to notice much more good in the world and our mind sends us many more good thoughts. If we have been through hard experiences, our mind can believe all kinds of things about who we are and how the world is. Taken to real extremes we can convince ourselves of all kinds of things. This is where the danger becomes more real. We may want to strike back at a world that seems to be wrong and then thoughts can lead to action that could be very dangerous.

When we focus on bad thoughts after a while it starts to damage our bodies this can lead to a lack of energy, which stops us from doing things, we then get more lethargic and eventually can lead to poor health.

There are healthy thoughts and unhealthy thoughts, so the thing is not to believe most of the negative thoughts we have as most of them are not really true, even if we think they are!

The less we believe these negative thoughts the less we hear them, which leads to a mind that can create amazing things!