I wish I could bottle the very essence of Adrian. I could make a million with that.

The very essence of Adrian is that he is a true friend and he retains and grows old and new friends all the time.

He is a true friend and is a magnet 🧲 that draws interesting people to him. He is a social butterfly and is a good egg.

He has seen me at my very best and my very worst and never judges. I too have seen him at his very best and worst…… but to me that is the mark of a good friendship,, never judging.. … just sharing the journey whatever may come.

He is a cheerful, spiritual and intelligent soul and I have the most interesting and deep conversations with him. He would be one of the most emotionally intelligent people I have ever met. He is my mate, my buddy and I am blessed to have him in my life. We’ve been friends around 30 years and I look forward to 30 more.

Our Souls are eternal. Our souls live on once we leave our physical bodies behind.

We are given lessons for our soul to learn in our lifetime here on 🌎 earth.

Our Souls live in the afterlife in heaven. We will meet all our loved ones in heaven. And spend an eternity in paradise.

Whenever life gets you down remember that this life is brief and that eternity is forever. So cherish one another’s soul and if you find yourself missing someone remember that God has plans for us all, and that eternity exists forever and a day. God bless all my loved ones in this life and the next.

If there is any wisdom I would like to express to my readers, it is the importance to be a “giver ” in this world. In a world of give and take, too many people focus on being a “taker”, they all ways ask WIIFM which stands for What’s In It For Me. These people create a vacuum in their lives and literally inhale and draw all energy to themselves. They take so much, that they drain the energy of life and sick it all in. These people are ultimately selfish, and in only taking, they create bad karma for themselves.

If anything, the story of Jesus’s life should teach us the beauty in life, that can be found, when we humbly and graciously learn to give, without the expectation of receiving in return.

My beautiful angel lady Susanna, was one of life’s “givers” who humbly gave her many 🎁 gifts and didn’t expect to receive in return. She gained 🙏 pleasure from giving and she was gracious and humble. Her delight in spreading joy was palpable. She taught me to receive good graciously and never to expect that I earned that generosity.

There are some people I know that do live their lives expecting to be given everything and never give of themselves. They suck the very life-force in and then dont exhale to such an extent that their balloon over inflates and bursts, showering their loved one’s with their neediness. Life comes in waves of giving and receiving and to only take alters this cycle, it is like trying to hold back the tide. Ultimately these people take away the positive energy around them……their loved one’s can only give so much of their own energy before it becomes a drain on them. This unhealthy energy ends up having a negative impact on those constantly giving and creates a reality and destiny that is destructive for those people involved in it. We can generate a negative future, for those we love, by. only taking. Good intentions and good behaviour generate good karma. If you only take from the universe, then the universe gives you back three-fold what you give . Goodwill generates goodwill . I know I have said that many times in past blog 📫 posts. I see evidence of that in my life and I am a keen observer of those around me. I see Gods handiwork in the lives of my loved ones. I see the universe ultimately rewarding good behaviour and I also see the universe giving out some drama in the lives of those whose mission it is to just suck on the teete of life. Some people never learn to give, so the universe gets even with them. Just like the tide comes in and out, the universe gives these takers more of the same until hopefully 🙏 they wake up and learn their lesson. Life will always give you opportunities to learn and grow, you have to be open to these opportunities. Life can be all the richer and create a beautiful masterpiece, if we learn to share our bounty.

I am blessed with quite a number of long term enduring friendships and definitely see that as a gift I don’t take for granted. Friends like Russell and Adrian etc have stood the test of time, and have been a blessing in my more challengibg times.

My longest term friendship is with Vicki. We have been friends since year 12 at high school and she remains to this day a very sophisticated and compassionate friend. We both came from very working class families and both had a sense of true class and honourable intentions, which we both learnt from our honest and hard-working parents. Vicki’s background is Greek, and she, is one the most classy and beautiful women I have ever met. From day one Vicki has worked in a very successful career in radio and now leads a very quiet and gentle life, as a radio journalist in Hobart. Not bad for a girl from Brunswick. She is very dynamic and talented and she has worked hard for everything she has achieved in her working life.

Vicki and I don’t need to live in one another’s pockets, but everytime we communicate, we just pick up where we left off and we are always there for one another in our more challenging times. It is a very easy friendship and I guess over the years, we have developed a sort of shorthand in our friendship, where we don’t have to spend hours explaining ourselves, we just get one another so well that the conversation just naturally continues and develops to grow. I know Vicki well enough over the years to know we always have one another’s back. She remains as classy and witty, funny and talented as the girl I first met back in high school many years ago and I cherish the fact that we have remained cherished friends over the years. She remains to this day, one of the people in my life, that means a lot to me, and I am glad to have been a passenger on her life’s journey and have seen her grow as a person, throughout her career in radio and she what an amazing person she has become throughput some pretty hard times. She is a blessing in my life and I’m so happy we have remained friends, along our journeys of life. True friends always have our combined best interests at heart. Long live long term friends, 🙏 they make the journey very special indeed.

I’ve experienced something of an epiphany in my life recently. An immense amount of stress in my life brought on my mental health issues and it has been an eye opener for me, as I see my support network of friends and family members all struggling with their own mental health issues to varying degrees. It makes my empathic side want to reach out and help them, but I am extremely fragile myself and need to make my own self care my priority.

I think the whole world 🌎 is suffering from a post pandemic, malaise. The pandemic changed our lives in ways we are only just beginning to realise. We are all wounded souls in some ways and there is an increase in violent crimes, abuse and mental health issues in general. I believe the current financial state of the world is also post pandemic, and that only now the world 🌎 is starting to pay the real cost of the pandemic, for several years to come.

What can we do about this? I guess the answer is to become more self aware and develop skills of empathy and understanding of each other. Self awareness doesn’t always come easy. The ability to look inward can be challenging for some people. Skills like mindfulness can help, but we need to be open to this form of therapy.

If only the world has the ability to become more introspective reflective and compassionate of our fellow humans maybe we could start to heal the world 🌎 of the current malaise. We need something to believe in, we need faith to help 🙏 us work to a solution. Im willing to share my faith and try to be positive of my own future 🙏 and also the future of my loved ones.

Are you too committed to being optimistic about one another?. What the world needs now is to love one another and look out for one another.