Whenever I feel like giving up, I tell myself to remember why I held on for so long in the first place

Love for attention & affection ≠ Love

I had a conversation with a friend yesterday. A casual remark from her set me to ponder on the following:

How often do lonely souls out there confuse 'the love for attention & affection' with 'love'
&
hence (subconsciously) resulting them to settle for something less / incompatible ?

The Fool

Paul Fenton-Smith, the author of 'The Tarot Revealed', said in his book:

"The Fool is a card for spontaneous action. A time to leap out of a situation, or a time to enjoy the day for what it is.

'Sufficient to the day, the joys therein'

is an old saying that fits this card. The Fool can appear when you are about to take a risk which those around you would caution against.

Take the risk. Do it anyway. The Fool suggests that the road to fulfilment is through spontaneous action and that long-term plans will be crystalised later on."

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抽到愚人牌的建議：

傻一點，世界就會美麗會一點；
只要今天是快樂的，今天就是充實的！
何必管別人怎麽看！只要不傷害到別人，
盡量放大膽跨步去做吧！

Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny

Rob Brezsny is a columnist for 'Sydney City News: Free Will Astrology'.

I particularly love the segment that he wrote on 13th August 2009 for 'Aquarius', as quoted below:

"In the days ahead, you may not realize what you're looking for until you find it. I advise you, therefore, to put into action the following five-point plan.

1) Suppress any know-it-all tendencies you might have.

2) Revive your childhood talent for being voraciously curious about everything.

3) Ask more questions than you've ever asked before.

4) Figure out how to be receptive without being passive, and how you can be humble without muffling with your self-confidence.

5) Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what's best for you. "

Simple - it's all bullshitting!!!

Although I am an advocate for keeping things simple & straight-forward, in my opinion, it can't be done ( even harder the older you get). This is for the very fact that human beings by nature like to complicate matters (we subconsciously just love the thrill of it). Moreover, there is this fear within us - the fear of failure; the fear of rejection. So we hide, we pretend. For better or for worse? To be honest, I don't think anyone can give a definite answer... ...

Focus - on knowing why I am here and what I need to do.

Scenic route to progress

I adapted the following phrase after reading the MX papers in Sydney today:

"If the option is slogging in Singapore, getting increasingly disillusioned or going overseas, having an experience and developing my skills, why not go overseas?"