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How can betrayal be misrepresented?

I can say one thing for sure, betrayal is when something is done with 100% selfishness resulting in someone’s pain. It is often done to a person that cares, has/had trust for someone or loves someone. The hurt comes with a swipe (on big one) at a time meaning one action at a time. Almost as if one action or deed has erased/wiped out what everything has been built on. The first thing that comes to mind if I have to give a definition of the word betrayal is this. It is when someone feels cheated, robbed, lied to, manipulated by, abused by someone who has put their self-interest first often for something less valued, superficial and off the righteous path.

Betrayal usually comes from selfishness while mispresented betrayal comes from selflessness – T. Dench Patel, 6 April 2021, 17:01

Where does light come from?

Now to go even deeper just as diamonds do, did you know that natural diamonds form 150 to 200 km from the surface of the ground, a diamond is not ever formed on the earth’s surface. The diamond, its value, the shine, the light was once all carbon, a dark matter, that was once solid atoms arranged in a form of crystals. This is how come diamonds have traits of carbon in them. Diamonds found on the surface were transported perhaps through eruption.

The topic some have been waiting for a very long time – All your blogging questions answered here

This question is coming up the most, is blogging difficult?

The second one after that is this one, how do you centre yourself to write content with the frequency you’ve been writing with up to now?

The third one is how do you stop receiving spam messages?

Burning the boat

So, knowing that the amount I had left and what I’d need to make up for the surprise trip for my parents to go around the world was far from reality I decided to do a test, a test about faith, to see if faith really exists or if destiny really exists, and so as I went through the rest of 2009… I went through it by choosing where I should try my luck next, chose between two decisions, often two destinations, chose a side of a coin, and flipped it, then went with it, and I said, “I am not re-flipping, I am not letting me have that choice.”… And so, 2009, has a pretty cool story, that had many heartbreaks cracking me open, to extents that became sabotaging, and the last coin flipping incident in 2009 landed me back in Spain.

Are you rejecting your experiences? – Responsibility and Fault

Hiroo Onoda was a lieutenant fighting in World War II. He was in a Philippines hideout when World War II ended in 1945 but he continued fighting the war up to 1974 because he wasn’t aware that the war was over. Not rejecting opportunities from moment to moment when we’re young is good, however, again, it’s choosing and rejecting according to what can help us grow and not what will waste our time. I will argue that choosing to go and ride a motorbike when we’ve never ridden one before is questionable, such as knowledge, practise, supervision and experience is required otherwise we may be putting our lives in danger.

The fish that left the pond

Choosing to stay with the dead, (we can take this literally or figuratively), is a choice we make/made. The dead parts of animals, humans, plants all fall away so that growth can take place. For some reason, we as humans, many of us hold onto the dead things (stories, old truths – that we keep and make them part of our current truths, ways of living, default autopilot thinking, toxic people, etc.). Control is one thing we really want and often too much that it works against us. What if, what if I tell you we put way too much pressure on ourselves on the things we are controlling. Why? Take a look at where we are, each one of us. Some of us know each other here, and we wonder why someone is so far in life and why we are where we are. Why? Because we are controlling the things that are not serving us, that we should let go to set us free so that we can grow, while the same can be said for not controlling the correct things that help us with our growth.

When an uncontrollable fire has to burn

From where this topic stems? When I was discussing with a person how important it is to walk in life being aware, we don’t have to react to everything, we can just be aware of what’s going on the left, right, centre, angle, and behind, not necessarily be in control of everything, not necessarily paranoid, and not necessarily being ignorant either. When we are in a world where we have been learning and growing, the more we move forward in health, wealth, self and social the more we have to be aware and realistic, not everyone is on this path and being intentional about picking information is important. Just like one mentor said, “Pick your fights well.”

She said, “It’s hard to make real friends in Johannesburg,” and I wondered, “Perhaps it’s hard in any place in the world.”

I think it’s important to consider that if one has been living in a place all their life or moved not so far away, real friends always make each other accessible and the downside with moving is that she said, “It’s hard to make real friends in Johannesburg,” and I wondered, “Perhaps it’s hard in any place in the world,” is very true of our lives and being in any part of this planet, until COVID arrived, after COVID I don’t know, but I can only speak for me, I’ve started the journey to become the friend that many friends wish to have in the world even if they’ve met me for the first time (I really hope I do well here) because I can truly tell you how that feels with the life I had before COVID. I wish and when you read this sentence, please wish me well on this as I wish you too that I can be seen as a genuine friend even if we’ve met just once and keeping fingers crossed, we’ll be friends for life.