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If people want you to believe in their lies they will tell you a fake past that suits their lies, to make their lies look like the truth.

Hope.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt.

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Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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The MATRIX refers to the systems and structures in society that keep us bound to the traditional ways of living and working.

These systems can include societal norms, cultural expectations, educational institutions, and corporate structures that often prioritize profit over people. Essentially, the MATRIX is the status quo that many people feel trapped in, making it difficult to break free and live life on their own terms.

 – Osama Shbbir.

Nuggets of Wisdom:

Let go of the idea of perfection — you are not perfect, you are real. Let yourself be flawed, and allow yourself to make mistakes.
Recognize that you’re not always going to have it all together.
Sometimes your heart is going to break, you are going to get hurt, you are going to feel pain.
Don’t apologize for being broken — every time you break you become a little more alive. You become more open with yourself. You become exposed to your sensibility.
Every crack tells you a little more about yourself — your strength, your courage, your tenacity — what you’re made of.
Do not hide these pieces from the world, they are a part of who you are. You see, the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
Their hearts are heavy but they love the deepest. They have seen the dark but they appreciate everything that shines. They’re compassionate, understanding, and empathetic. Beautiful hearts just don’t happen — and you my dear are going to show the world just how beautiful you are.
– Bryan Anthony’s.
When gossipers and troublemakers go up to you to lie to you about other people they think:
• That you are gullible because you are going to believe them without real evidence.
• You are so easily-fooled that you won’t ask the victim if the gossip is true.
• So foolish to listen to them in the first place.
• They think that your mind is weak, that you are weak-minded.
• They don’t respect you or they wouldn’t even consider lying to you.
• They think that you are a sucker for tales that they make up.
• They see you as a tool for their attempts to destroy someone else’s public character.
• You are easy to use and abuse for their purposes.
• They don’t really like you.
 
Wake up people please. Get the facts behind gossip.
Just because family, or friends, or a casual acquaintance told you something, that doesn’t make it true. Even TV, radio and newspaper get it wrong every now and then.
 
Please get your facts before you believe peoples tales.
Please don’t let people fill your mind with wild-imaginings – their only aim is to hurt and maim peoples lives with their devilish stories.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt.
Save some poor miserable soul from suffering because backstabbers are attacking them. Think, question and then do your own investigations.
 
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
11th November 2014.
If you have something to say to someone, my advice is “Say It Now!” Before it is too late.
 
I have met so many people who are so unhappy because they didn’t talk to someone while they were alive. Too late “is too late!” Get it right and see them as soon as you can!
Things like Cancer creep up and before you know it the person is gone. Only recently I went into a shop which I visit regularity and the wife had died of cancer and she went fast. I was genuinely shocked because she was so well and active when I last saw her only a little while before she died.
Another lady, a relation of my children had cancer but she hardly told anyone (Something I would do – I don’t like a fuss) and in a matter of days she died. She was ill on the Friday and she didn’t go to work and was dead by Sunday. Even her work mates didn’t know that she had cancer and her husband told me that she didn’t really get much discomfort or pain until the very end. So she worked actively right up to her death.
Please don’t leave the important things of your heart until it is too late. Be honest, good and willing to make amends or to talk about what it is that you need to talk about.
Believe me a little hurt pride and feeling foolish is not worth the years of sorrow and some anguish because you had the chance but didn’t take it.
Take that chance and make things right!
You will never regret trying.
 
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 5, 2012

The Wake Up Call;
I was sitting on a small concrete power-box (we have lots of these in New Zealand) on the side of the road trying to write a text message using a new Swipe keyboard that I had downloaded from the Android Market (Play Store) when I saw a car coming down a hill on the road and a couple of black birds were on the road directly in the path of the car.
One flew out of the path of the oncoming car. The other bird just stood there and the car roared over the bird from behind with a zoom.
It was at this time that I realised that it was a parent blackbird with one of its young. It was at a distance that I saw the birds but it did look like one of its chicks and a big one at that. After the car roared over the bird it jumped up in the air with fright and it was unharmed being in the middle of the car and far from the turning wheels. The other bird came back and the little bird hopped off the road very smartly indeed.
For the little bird this was a wake up call – it was like “Wow, the world is a big place, with weird noises and frightening objects and a bit scary too” – the poor little fellow had learned a big lesson about the road cars and life.
Every now and then we all get a wake up call of some sort and we need to take a new look at our life because something has happened – sometimes something big and scary has happened. Or something that shocks us back to reality and to thinking what really is important in life.
I found this definition on the Internet:
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Whats the meaning of ‘wake up call’?
what does it mean when a person says ‘I just had a wake up call’?
It means that you should realise what you are doing and reform your ways at once.
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We get a sharp lesson and turn away from where we had wandered. Sometimes these lessons are fatal. Sometimes children wander where they shouldn’t and get killed and sometimes adults text and drive, or go partying, or drink and drive, abuse drugs. Maybe we just see something that shocks us back to reality.
For example a person might text and drive and then have a near miss, and then text and drive the next day. Wake up calls I am convinced are there to wake us up, to give us another chance, to let us know that if we don’t change immediately something big, bad and nasty is going to happen.
Arrogant foolish thinking can take us into a dream world of delusions and then “wham!” something brings us back to whats real and we remember once again what is important.
We, like the little bird, get a wake up call and we are the better off for it. Maybe it will inspire us to do something we should have done long ago or inspire us to change our path promptly.
Wake up calls can be very helpful. And when we get one we should react to it the way that is positive and useful for the future. We shouldn’t ignore it, because it was there for a reason – otherwise it wouldn’t have been a wake up call for us.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
November 8, 2012.

 
When we genuinely forgive our hearts lets go of the past and we open a new episode of our life with the person who asks for forgiveness. Its a new beginning, a new chance, and a new opportunity to begin again. That is freedom.
 
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 29, 2012.

Please don’t let that voice in your head deceive you, you are capable, and even though you may be struggling a bit, know that your value is not in what others see in you, it is in how you see yourself and what you do in your life that is worthy.

I have had many lonely times, and people treated me bad over and over again. But in that loneliness I found comfort, hope, happiness and above all I found me!

Consider this. If you are even feeling really down, rejected, ignored and lonely then the issue is in the way people are reacting to you, your life etc. Only a dysfunctional society cannot deal with people who have issues, they are bringing you down instead of offering hope and lifting you up.

If you react to loneliness or feeling let down by others in a new positive way then you will build and grow from how they have treated you, you will show yourself and others that their lack of knowledge of your true worth is a mistake by them and it is their lack of vision that denies them seeing how amazing you can truly be.
Be positive, be self encouraging, you will shine as you have never shined before. Get stubborn, boost that self talk, you are as worthy as anyone else alive, believe that because it is true.

Your best hope is in you, your best friend. Seek all that is good within you that can bring out the best in you. Refuse to listen to the negatives going on in your mind and refusing to hear them, and then replacing them with something strong, encouraging, good and true.

Reverse the curse of a toxic dysfunctional society that gave you confusions and loneliness, and realise that what you need is not in this society, so bring it out in you what you need by giving yourself positive talk, encouragement, and look back and see all the amazing things that you have done since childhood, and see how you have progressed and what you have completed, and then refuse the
negative talk in your head. Listen to your self talk, listen to what you say to yourself. Consider how you think of yourself, think of how much your life would change if you thought better of yourself and if you encouraged yourself.

Know that you are not to blame for feeling this way. You are a result of a toxic society, time to change that and be a positive light in the world by making a positive stand, seeing who you could be, looking back at your childhood and remembering what you thought of life of you, what dreams you had, because now is a good a time as any to make those dreams come true.

Dysfunctional societies build weak people with weak foundations below them, and when we became adults we can lack confidence, lack hope. This is not your fault.

But now from this point on you can make better more positive choices that will suit your needs, keep you healthy, keep your mind active, positive and filled with hope.
You can seek a better life, better friends by being yourself, the person, who you always wished was in your life helping you and encouraging you as you grew up. You have a place in the world, a good place, and your worth will come out in your change and courageous new confidence.

All the best from
James M Sandbrook.

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