Rest…

I just got back from a great holiday with my girlfriend; we spent a long weekend on a beach resort in the Mediterranean.  The view from the patio window; blue rolling waters stretched out into the distance with the clear sky in the background and birds soaring gracefully across was beautiful.  It wasn’t peak season […]

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Family…

I’m at that age where my peers are getting married and having kids.  Everyone’s at a different place in this beautiful process and I try to encourage and support them as best as I can.  I’m reminded of a particular female friend of mine who recently became a mother.  Her baby is 3months old and […]

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Care…

The other night, I rushed to meet my girlfriend in the Accident and Emergency ward of a hospital in North London as she had been suffering from stomach pains all day.  We spent about three hours patiently waiting with others.  The room was full of discontentment, agony and despair; it was a humbling experience I […]

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Touching…

I remember running into an acquaintance the other evening.  She appeared down and uneasy about something; when I prodded she confessed she had just gotten off the phone with her family in Italy and her mom was in the hospital with some complications.  This was Wednesday night and she was due for a surgery on […]

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First Impressions…

Late evening yesterday and I had a most interesting experience.  I was walking home when I ran into a man who looked pretty shabby, dirty and tattered.  He asked if I knew where the closest Sainsbury’s was to which I responded and pointed him in the right direction.  He thanked me, gently walked on and […]

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The look in your eyes…

Friday evening, I was waiting for my girlfriend at Bank underground station.  I’m like many other people because I also like people watching!  Different faces, different strides, different personalities all fascinate and remind me how beautiful and diverse London is.  Then I saw a girl crying.  She was pushing a travel bag and was in […]

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Love is…

A scene in Ray, the biographical movie of the rhythm and blues legend Ray Charles, came up in a conversation the other night.  It’s the moment when his mom restrains herself from helping him walk.  For those who haven’t seen it; the message here is simply the emotional pain on the part of a mother […]

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A Heart of Service…

I love coffee.  An extra hot latte is my usual order and sometimes I have a touch of caramel or hazelnut with it.  I particularly like Costa Coffee.  For some reason, I appreciate their level of service and customer care and can proudly say I’ve never really had any issues with them.  Probably this is […]

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Happy…

The level of joy and peace we experience every day of our lives tends to vary…..however, the ability does not.  It is more or less fixed….thus we can actually partake in as much of it as we choose to.  This is deeper than the popular notion that joy and peace is impossible or that you […]

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Thoughts on Attraction…

The story of Adam and Eve teaches us that there’s a man in every woman and there’s a woman in every man.  Furthermore, when a man is content and at peace with himself….he is able to realise this.  He will see himself clearly in a lady….based on knowledge and experience.  Loving her is then easy […]

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