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Save to lose it!

Rustig — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:15:00 +0000

In this modern day we live, more people are broken by self-centredness. The only important thing that matters today are the big and wonderful me! What can I gain from this life or in the position I am held? It is a constant battle to undermine each other and to be the centre of attention. Is this why the human race has become so unhappy and “sick” these days? The more we concentrate on ourselves, the more we go to pieces, not only in spirit, but also in mind and body.

It is if self-centred people are a magnet to attract unhappiness and causes a ripple effect in their surroundings, making everyone they come into contact also miserable. They may draw attention and what comes with it to themself, but it seems that sadness, disillusionment follows suit in the physical as well as spiritual form, only to leave them empty and bitter.

Are there no more joy left in us, the supposedly crown of creation, to live away from the self and towards each other? What a sad and empty world we are creating at this day and age.

Maybe there is much truth in the following:

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it…

Ethos and modern media.

Rustig — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:00:58 +0000

A few days ago I read an article about Aristotle and his idea regarding the messenger and the message. Please, I am no scholar of Aristotle and my knowledge of Greek stopped short after baklava. Aristotle said that the messenger or bringer of news should have three things namely: ethos, pathos and logia. I understood that who ever brings the message or news to the people or who it is intended for should have ethos or the correct ethics. Without the correct ethics the person bringing the messages loses all credibility. Pathos or sympathy is the part where the listener wants to know if the messenger shares their hope, fears and longings.
Are there “love” or empathy in the heart of the messenger or is he/she becoming just another tinkling cymbal. Logia is the verbal or word part. Does the person have something to say.

Ethos and pathos I see as character qualities. Something we all should have and display in our daily lifes.

This made me wonder how much of this is really relevant in the modern media and how they tell and portray a story to the public? Maybe it is a case that the public has become to “shallow” and selfish to question the credibility of the “messenger”, in this case the newspaper or television. The attitude is “I saw it on television so it must be true”. Personally these days I have very little faith in newspapers or television news. Do they really tell the true story or do they twist it as win over the viewers sympathy? Do Aristotle’s view apply today? I doubt!

people don’t care how much we know until they know how much we care

Labour Unions.

Rustig — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:09:30 +0000

These days every type of industry has a labour union to protect them from the employer or to cover up the laziness.

What I would like to know is, if prostitutes belong to the Sex Workers Union, when will they go on strike to demand better pay and working conditions and what the consequences will be for the population who depend on their skills?

The right road?

Rustig — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:09 +0000

I am sure most of us, when we were at school had big plans and ideas what we would like to achieve and do in life. I am sure that most people reached or are on the right track of the goals they set for themselves. Some can look back and pat themselves on the back with a well done. I was the same, but during the years my route changed. I must be the only adult in the world with the attention span of a five year old. I have done most what I aimed to do, the rest I put on hold. During the travels of life I came across a few things that did have a huge influence on me and made me do big changes. I am not a university educated person, neither do or ever had I owned a house or a car or have vaults full of money. All these items were on my list of to-do items when I were at school. After my two years serving “king and country”, I had a change from university to Technikon. (Think they are extinct institutions now.)

Early in my life I started to have very little desire to collect material things. Why do I need a house if I am not going to live in it? A car if I have no need for it? The biggest contributor to this attitude must have been the fact that for the last 15 years I have moving around more times than a nomad with his camels in the desert. It just become easier to pack up and move on. I know that it is easier if you do not have children as the responsibility is only towards oneself. I have to admit that I became a bit content with life and its offerings. No ambition? I do not know. Never thought about it. I wonder if things would have been different if I was married and had children? One can never say.

Now after nine years in Ireland the urge to pack the camel and move on is stronger than ever before. Time to start a complete new journey, new road with new things. Does this decision make me less successful because I never really completed the first one?

How many complete their journeys they set out for themselves? How many is still on the right road? How many got side tracked due to incidents in their life’s or just because they are like me, attention span of a five year old. How many got stuck in a box because they believe that is what life is meant to be?

Are you on the right road?

Today maybe the last!

Rustig — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:12:14 +0000

Why is it we always wait for someones funeral to tell him/her how much we miss them and what a wonderful person he or she was?
It is something that really bugs me when I attend a funeral service and they ramble on about how wonderful he/she was etc. Personally I think it is a bit too late now to do your praises. Why didn’t we use the opportunity, when the person was alive to tell him/her how wonderful they are or fix the wrongs we caused. We only have today to correct the mistakes. Why leave it till tomorrow, which maybe to late and all you have is regrets. Tomorrow is a privilege few of us may not see. Now is the time to go to that person and apologise or ask why they behave the way they do. Mend the broken. Spend a few extra hours with a friend, make the time. Is life meant to be lived with hatred and regrets that will only eat your soul away like a cancer.

Today is the day we have to go to the persons and fix the wrongs!
Today is the day we buy flowers for a loved one!
Today is the day we go and apologise!
Today is the day we can be free from regrets due to unsolved vendettas!

Because today maybe the last change, as tomorrow may never come!