There are so many things that demand our attention and thoughts nearly all of our waking moments. Often though it is the urgent things that get our utmost attention. However not all things urgent are important. They key is to balance them both and this is not easy. I guess that is why a leading a simple life can help lesson undue matters requiring urgent attention leaving us more time for the important things.
The month of April for me was a month full of urgent and important matters regarding various responsibilities culminating with being a best man for a wedding and leaving the country the next day to Buenos Aires! I decided though despite the stress and day to day bombardment of things to allow some time to lock back and focus on the good things that happened, to stop and count my blessings.
Among the good things a received was a whole lota help from good friends. I have to say were it not for the help of friends I would not be able to accomplish many of the things I have wanted or even needed to do. THANK YOU ALL, especially Jay and Cheryl for your large heartedness and kindness and thank you Gareth and Lisa you guys are amazing. Thank you everyone who made some time to say goodbye. I really enjoyed the farewell dinners and the time to catch up before leaving it was encouraging. I really enjoyed cooking crêpes with the whanau. Blake your idea to cook crêpes was a good one, it was so much fun. If anyone has a crepe machine they haven't used for a decade or so pull it out they are actually still easy to make now as they were 12 years ago! Who knew!.
Again thank you everybody for your love, kind words and patience, without such things the world would be a very different place.
There are so many bad things and difficulties in this world that it would be a shame to not give attention to the good. I would recommend anyone to every now and then, stop and count the blessings, actually it is probably one of those things we would benefit from doing everyday. It has helped me to keep positive, appreciate what I have and what I'm doing. It has also been good to see how I have benefited from others and learn from these expressions of kindness with a view of doing the same.
In looking back we can find the courage to look forward and become what we want to become and to do what we need to do.
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