Rose Coloured Glasses

Lookin' at the world through rose-coloured glasses

Everything is rosy now
Lookin' at the world and everything that passes
Seems a rosy hue somehow...

If we can make ourselves feel better by seeing things through sunglasses, surely wearing rose-coloured glasses is even better! Expecting the best possible outcome of events often leads to just that. A positive outlook not only encompasses the way we calculate risk but also how we perceive our current ability to thrive. While thinking positively is beneficial, it’s important not to push away negative feelings altogether. Whatever life throws at us, we have some control over our perceptions. And, choosing positivity may mean we look at a less-clear version of the truth. One of the most important decisions a person will ever make is what they choose to believe.

We all know that seeing something through rose-coloured glasses means you see it as better than it really is, but did you ever wonder where this idiom originated? Oh well, who really cares! No matter what the origin of the idiom is, seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses really does make the world a better place. The reds are incredibly red, the greens lush, the blues truly electric! So I will just continue looking at the world through my rose-coloured glasses. 😂

Easy On Me

 

Recognise This Connection For What It Is

When we ask for change, we must be open to what it entails. Acceptance is what the Universe is asking of you right now. That and unyielding faith in the fact that things are happening *for* you. For some of you, this may be a time of coming out of denial and recognising the truth. If they wanted to walk by your side, they would have fought to be in your life. Word for the wise: choose yourself. Do right by you without bringing shame into the equation. Recognise this connection for what it is. 

Exactly so. I recognise this connection for what it is. I fought to resolve the issue more than a year ago! I was always the one to reach out in that friendship, always the one to call!! Why should I bring shame into the equation by deciding to turn my back and walk away? I tried to reach out. I tried to resolve the issue. Why should I feel shameful by turning my back when I was not being met halfway? If they really cared they would have fought to be in my life when they saw I had turned my back. I have no reason to feel shameful. No. Absolutely not! Back at the ranch they are gossiping about how awful I am to all and sundry, when in fact they should really put themselves under the microscope! I did not choose to become ill at that time! Trigeminal Neuralgia is a F-ing Bitch to deal with!! It disrupts your whole life!! Now, this time, all I did was congratulate a new Mother (my ex friend's daughter) on the birth of her precious baby girl and I was shunned BIG TIME! Oh well, what is done is done. Let me not stress myself out as that is one of the key factors that triggers TN. I know MY truth! I am not going to stick around where I am not wanted!! I wish them all well on their journey ahead. I choose myself!! I am doing right by me! It took me way too long to realise that you shouldn't stay friends with people who never asked how you're doing. I now see that things are happening *for* me. End of story. 

Cry My Beloved South Africa

It all starts with former President Jacob Zuma being jailed for 15 months for corruption, fraud, money laundering and state capture. His supporters say they will lay down their lives to save him. Quite ironic they want to save the very man who did not care one ounce about them and stole food right out of their mouths! Next thing you know all mayhem has broken out in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal, which is about 6 hours drive away from me here in Gauteng province, Johannesburg (JHB). Then you wake up on 11 July 2021 to this warning:

Please note
Protestors have now started looting and burning shops & businesses in Gauteng.
They are currently in JHB CBD.
We are not sure how far and wide they might spread.
Please try avoid major centers, local townships and shopping centers.
This may continue until Tuesday.
Please stay vigilant and do not panic.
Contact SAPS OR CPF if you have any queries or need assistance

You think is this for real? Yes, it sure as hell is! You sit glued to the radio, you watch the news...and there is nothing you can do. Our police minister, Bheki Cele, is no where to be found, yet he was quick to arrest white people when they were on the beach during the CV19 lockdown! You see the police standing around doing nothing, some even helping themselves to the looting! You sit in disbelief, shock, you want to cry at the devastation. Shopping Malls burnt, Cars...burnt...trucks transporting luxury vehicles...burnt! Warehouses where food is stored...burnt! OMG! These looters are stupid!

Cry my beloved country...I am heart broken!!! I wonder what those looters are going to say when they see the destruction they have caused in South Africa...all because of the evil that encouraged them to do this with a false promise to them...has this country not suffered enough? To all those looters...are you really a proud South African? Please don't say you are...and please don't blame this on apartheid either! To those looters, I hope your children are proud of you...you have set a fine example for them. I wonder if your 'Gogo' is going to be proud of you...shame...their hearts must also be so broken now...208 cases of vandalism and violence in South Africa ...To all those that put their lives on the line to try and protect us from this devastation...may you be blessed

The Taxi drivers and every other person did more to protect their communities and Malls than the South African Police or South African National Defense Force did!

You have to wonder whether the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, is as remorseful as he claims to be...he certainly does not show it! You have to wonder is he also behind all of this? The ANC government is a divided party with inhouse fighting. 

Ramaphosa reckons their are 12 instigators behind this planned insurrection, as he calls it. 4 of the 12 have been arrested. Our other former President, Thabo Mbeki, has warned all South Africans to remain vigilant. He says : "Just because we know who is behind this, does not mean their network has been dismantled". His words can be no further from the truth considering this other woman's threat to Ramaphosa! This woman, by the name of Phasha something or other, had demanded that Zuma be released in 14 days or else.....this is her letter of demand - as follows:

Zuma’s supporters, including ANC member Phapano Phasha and the MKMVA’s Carl Niehaus, announced a list of demands that should accompany Zuma’s release. They say they expect President Cyril Ramaphosa to have responded to in 14 days.

Phasha said that Zuma must be released immediately and that all the legal targeting and “legal persecution that he has endured”, including the arms deal case, should stop immediately.

Amongst the other demands made by Phasha was the nationalisation of the mines, the South African Reserve Bank and other key strategic industries and means of production.

“A State Bank must be established without delay, and our national banks must be focused on specific areas of industrial development.

“Several black banks must be established, through easing their entrance into the financial sector. Similarly the insurance industry must be unlocked for the emergence, and ultimate control, of black players,” Phasha said.

Zuma’s supporters also called for free quality education, the end of stringent lockdown regulatory measures, the prioritisation of rural development and immediate and full implementation of the Resolution of the 54th National Conference of the ANC for the expropriation of land without compensation.

“The BRICS alliance that has been neglected and de-campaigned under the Ramaphosa government, must be resuscitated and strengthened. A living wage for all public sector workers, especially the police and nurses.

“All SOE’s must be protected from being privatised, and those such as SAA that have already been privatised, and sold, must be re-nationalised. Overall, free education, vocational training, and employment must be guaranteed for all of those who are willing and able to work,” Phasha said.

She said that their demands were for an equitable black, especifically African, owned and controlled economy.

“We are almost 30 years into our democratic breakthrough, and yet the economy of the country continues to be in the hands of a white minority that hates and mercilessly exploits black South Africans.

“They hate even those compradore black capitalist agents who enable their continuing exploitation of the vast majority of black people. They are thriving on dividing and ruling us,” Phasha said.

She added that their campaign for Zuma’s release and for their demands to be implemented, will not cease until their objective to achieve a truly liberated and economically empowered country is achieved.

“Failing to do so is not an option, because the terrible alternative we live and see right now, and it is truly too ghastly to contemplate.

“Our demands, as contained in this media statement, will be delivered tomorrow to President Cyril Ramaphosa. In the light of the urgency of the situation we expect a response within 14 days,” Phasha added. Political Bureau. End.

I have highlighted the paragraph where she mentions the white minority. These blacks are the one's that hate the whites yet they always try to blame the whites for their failings. They were handed a First World country 27 years ago...over the 27 years they have turned it into a Third World country!! They always use apartheid as the blame card!

Not only that. She is clearly a security threat. In any other country she would have been arrested for these threats!!

Time will tell. We can only pray for South Africa! #PrayForSouthAfrica #SaveSouthAfrica

Missing You Come's In Waves

The moment that you died my heart was torn in two, one side filled with heartache and the other died with you.

I often lie awake at night, when the world is fast asleep, and take a walk down memory lane, with tears upon my cheeks.

Remembering you is easy, I do it everyday, but missing you is heartache that never goes away.

I'll hold you tightly within my heart, and there you will remain,

Until the joyous day arrives, that we will meet again.

I miss you Angie! I wish we could still laugh and talk about everything like we used to.

I miss our sister weekends...we eventually named them Angie weekends.

I think of you in silence, I often speak your name.

All I have are memories, and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is my keepsake, with which I'll never part.

God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart.

Missing you comes in waves, and today I am drowning

I love you so much!

R.I.P to heavens most beautiful angel.

She Dances

She dances. She sings. She gives. She takes. She loves. She creates. She agrees. She disagrees. She sees. She hears. She grows. She sweats. She sheds her skin. She changes. She becomes enlightened. She smiles. She learns. She laughs. She frowns. She cries. She bleeds on the pages of her days. She walks on hot coals. She walks through fires. She climbs mountains. She falls asleep as her head hits the pillow. She raises her face to each new day. She lives life with intention. The music to her life has a different tune and is always filled with a different rhythm, but she always wears the same dancing shoes. 

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