Chapter 24: The Traveler

Dear reader,

OH MY WORD! I'm being robbed by a sexy bandit! Oh, wait, it's just you.:)

My family are professional globe trotters, except Kipling the dog who is a professional playboy.
Ever since I was little we made it a habit to have an annual holiday venturing anywhere from the States, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Philippines, Cuba, Tunisia, Egypt, France, and Dubai. The wonderful delight is there are still  places that have not been explored and that my friend, is a very exciting thing for both you and I.

To travel is an opportunity to explore the unknown; to see, smell and taste things that you have never experienced before. Therefore a traveler to me is a fascinating person with memories, stories and a glow in his or her eye (not to inflate my own giant head). Personally I carry a writers notebook wherever I go, ready to soak in inspiration from the languages I speak, the music I hear and the people I meet along my journey to make that glow all the brighter.

Chapter 23: The Educated

Dear reader,

Hi there :) Do you believe in love at first sight? No? Then refresh this page you sexy thing ;).

I admit that this author done rather well at school. I won a couple of awards at prize evening and swept through college with good grades. There was something very appealing about this at the time. At primary school you were bullied for being too bookish and later on you were honoured as the hero.

If I could meet my past self I would probably slap him hard on the bum. Harsh I know, to hurt such a beautiful thing, haha :), but highly necessary. As now, years later after the whole experience and moving onwards with my life, I realize just how wrong I was and perhaps how wrong we all were for believing that school was anything but good for us.

The truth is that school, college and university teach us very little. Education for me is as follows: you sit in a classroom while a teacher reads from a textbook, not teaching but repeating what other teachers have written before him, does examples on a larger board and then sends you homework, usually to do more of what you have "learnt". At the end of the year you have an exam which is a chance for you to soak up all of the information like a sponge and then spit it out onto a page in the fastest time possible. The more accurately you can spit out this information the higher grades you will get. It is all about mindless parrot memorization not intelligence or innovative thinking. If you find the subject boring, or you would rather be doing something more exciting and fulfilling with your life then you will most likely fail which consequently leads to bullying, disappointed parents, poor reputation, zero employment and zero opportunity. Most of all it is societies opportunity to call you a "moron" or "stupid" which quite honestly is the most stupid thing of all.

Chapter 22: Fallen Angels

Dear reader,

I am listening to a Buddhist mantra :D, that's right you beautiful perplexed person, you. If you don't know what it is, it's my latest jam: Om Mani Padme Hum. I love it because it makes me feel amazing and that my friend, is what music should always do for you.Unless of course you want to listen to "Kelis' Bossy" and feel sexy, it's entirely up to you :D.

Today's topic is all about the light and the dark in all of us and the understanding of some of the general paradigms of good and evil, what the benefits are of certain walks of life, and the curses of others.

One of the most beautiful realizations that you can make as a person is your perfection and imperfection. The realization that all of us are at our best, perfect creatures capable of magnificent things: fallen angels. Much of our daily stress is caused by our inability to admit our weaknesses. Often we fall and blame ourselves or those around us for doing so. What we fail to understand is that falling is the way of life, and as you are aware the opportunity how to rise again. Realize that you are a fallen angel, flying your way back home and life is the path that you take to get there. If it makes you feel sexier you can imagine wings on your back, but I'll leave that up to you :).