What I like about where I live is that I live in a very neighbourly community. I have several neighbours I consider to be friends and centred around the little group of shops near to my place is a real supportive community. The shop owners all support one another and as a shopping strip, it is thriving mainly due to the community feel. The streets are tree lined and the houses are well maintained. It is a community where the homes 🏡 are well maintained. People are happy to live here. Yes this area is home 🏡 to me.
The positive emotion that I feel most often is that of contentment with my life. Ninety-nine percent of the time I am happy and at peace with my life.
I am content with my lot in life and grateful 🙏 for the small things that bring me pleasures 🙏 in my life.
I have enough food that I need. I lead a very simple life, where I don’t spend a lot of money. I have loving friends and family. Because I have Lily, I am never totally alone. When I look into Lily’s eyes I see her love ❤️ for me in them and that is what brings me the most happiness, fulfilment, serenity and contentment. So yeah I would so the most positive feeling in my life is that of ongoing contentment.
If I have a goal in mind I tend to work at it in baby steps, and endeavour to work at the goal a little at a time. There are those times that I feel very passionate about a particular goal and focus a lot of energy working to achieve that goal. I can be very headstrong and passionate once I have made up my mind to do something and work towards making that happen. My friend Russell says that I am a strong positive force to be reckoned with, and that I am very good at making happen whatever it is I have I have decided to pursue.
The thing in my life that brings me the most peace is the love I receive from my beautiful little dog Lily. If ever I am feeling blue, I just have to look into her eyes, to feel so much peace and unconditional love. Her eyes 👀 are full of innocence and wisdom, and her unconditional love for me radiates and warms my heart. I can never be lonely with Lily and I am so grateful 🙏 to God that he brought such a loving companion into my life.
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
If I were going to open a shop I would sell children’s literature. Children’s literature is one or my first love’s in this world 🌎. I would open an old fashioned traditional children’s bookshop, were I sold both modern day world stories, but also the classics of children’s literature too. I would have a section where I sold children’s music 🎶 too. I think The Wiggles have shown there is a market for fun music for kids. I would have an area set up in the shop where I would have daily story telling sessions, which would be free for all to attend.
It is nice to dream of these things, just as like in some children’s literature a bit of fantasy never goes astray.
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
The most important things that I carry are my mobile phone 📴 and my keys 🔑. I take my mobile 📱 phone with me everytime I leave the house, even when I am just taking Lily for a walk, so I am prepared for all eventualities. It means if I fall over or have some sort of accident I can call someone easily and readily. It means I feel both prepared and safe. That makes me feel secure.
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
The change that I would like to make in the world 🌎 is a greater understanding of mental illness and more compassion and empathy for those afflicted by it. I thank God that I live in the modern world and not 100 years ago, but there is still work to be done and I would like to think that my blog educates and informs people of the reality of mental health issues.
In an alternate universe it would be Utopia. There would be no violence, no murders, no rapes no child abuse of any kind and no violence to animals.
It would be a world 🌎 where everybody shared their abundance of resources. People would be kind to one another and cancer would no longer exist. There would be no inhumanity. Our pets would only be in loving forever homes.
It would be just like the John Lennon song 🎵 Imagine. It would be Utopia a version of heaven. God and his angelic messengers would be visible to us and evil would not exist. It would be the stuff that dreams are made of. Oh if only it could exist.
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?
I usually don’t spend a lot of money on food when I dine out, and can’t really recall ever spending a lot on a meal.
Probably the most I spent on a meal, was about 20 years ago at the Hard Rock Cafe here in Melbourne when it was still open. I can vaguely recall spending about $28 Australian dollars 💸 on a porterhouse steak. What I also remember about that time was that a few nights previously I had been to the casino here in Melbourne for a friends birthday. This is rare for me because I don’t usually gamble at all, however I had reluctantly gone to the casino and I won about $400 Australian dollars on the pokies. As soon as I won that amount, I stopped playing the pokies. That was a lot of money for me, so I didn’t want to lose it by gambling more.
Winning that amount of money meant that I could afford to shout my nephew and some nieces to lunch for my birthday 🎂 at the Hard Rock Cafe. This was so very rare for me, and I loved 😍 the music memorabilia at the Hard Rock Cafe.
Was it worth paying for an experience like that?. It most definitely was and I enjoyed being able to spoil my nephew and nieces who at that stage were still fairly young kids, who loved that very much. So yeah, it was worth it.
1. A good night’s sleep 2. The fresh crisp morning air. 3.The morning sunshine here is Melbourne.4. My Dog Lily waking up happy every day. 5. Taking Lily for a walk. 6. Good Coffee. 7. Peppermint Or Lemon and Ginger Tea. 8 Occasionally treating myself to chocolate 🍫. 9 Eating Italian food at Itahlia here in Sunbury.10.Eating good Indian Food.11 Occasionally having savoury Lebanese pastries , in particular cheese and spinach pastries. 11 Talking to Adrian regularly. 12 Spending time with my neighbour Liz. 13. My wonderful friendship with Russell. 14 Having a great psychiatrist. 15 Going out for lunch. 16 Reading a book. 17 Reading books by Cathy Kelly. 18. Writing my blog regularly.. Writing stories for children. 19 in Particular writing about dogs 🐕 20. Going to my hairdresser and taking Lily with me. 21. Any time spent with Lily. 22 Going opshopping with Kathryn. 22 Spending time with my family. 23 Seeing my great niece Evelyn 24 Spending Christmas with my family .25. Buying gifts 🎁 for my loved ones. 26 Enjoying a Sunday Roast with family. 27 Writing about Susanna.28 Doing angel card readings 📚 for myself and loved ones. 29 Goung to High Tea with friends. 30. Going to the movie.
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