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Nurturing Relationships
Sshh.. listen up closely! What you’re about to read is the direct result of personal experience and life lessons.. so enjoy the ride. Most people imagine themselves to be good, generous, galant… certainly not selfish or inward facing. Yet, the myriad of issues we all face in life gives a lie to this myth that…
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Xquist Xperience
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? It is said that painful memories, more so than joyous ones, are seared into our mind…I have found this holds true for experiences as well. You may too find yourself vividly narrating trauma or deeply painful experiences, yet the laughs you have shared with a now…
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Jacaranda
Jacaranda Restaurant & Bar Contemporary Asian Cuisine punctuated with Local produce and flavours. Jacaranda is hidden away amongst tall native trees and sprawling abodes of Killara, in Sydney. Approaching the property, you would be forgiven to suspect you had missed a turn somewhere and were quite lost.. Persevere a little further and you will enter…
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True Love..
What is true love? Most of us wouldn’t know it if it smacked us in the face.. Our perceptions of the world around us are shaped by external stimuli, so much so that we end up with a heavily skewed and confused picture of life and love. At the risk of being one more voice…
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My Teenage Self Listen Up..
What advice would you give to your teenage self? Listen up my teenage self…hindsight affords us innumerate opportunities to do things differently…but I will focus on what’s most important. Time is the most precious commodity! Learn to harness it… “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here…
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Life Goals & Life Roads..
Along this sojourn of life, I have come to contemplate the importance having goals and the purpose they serve in guiding us as travellers on life’s uncertain roads. Robert Frost best captured the nature of life in his literary masterpiece, “The Road Not Taken.” “I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages…
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New Paradigm..
I have been discovering through my life and people around me, the importance of undergoing a paradigm shift. Life is a dynamic beast, ever undulating, lurching and settling..so in order to deal with the unexpected sorrows and joys, we need a paradigm shift. “Paradigm shift is for the mindful; but those who refuse to adopt…
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A Bittersweet Romance!
In the twinkling of an eye, forging of an eternal love was nighResistance to prevent and defy, was defeated by love all plans gone awryHer sun kissed parlour beckoned me to serenade her with songInsatiable, restlessness gripped me, for her my heart did long Day and night, she craved her lover’s embrace and touchEvery moment…
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Way to go..Ego!
I have come to realise that this three letter word has engineered the fall of many a great empires, governments, relationships and individuals! What is ego? “It is defined as your conscious mind, part of your identity that is your self.” – Vocabulary, 2023. If one’s ego is such an integral part of who we…
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What is a Patriot?
What does being patriotic mean to you? Patriotism has been, is and will probably be one aspect of life that will stir up the emotions of people. I can certainly say that I am patriotic, for it is a sense of identity that is either given to us by the country of our birth or…
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