Some info about me
For whatever it is worth, I wanted to let you know a little about me.
I have always preferred a natural remedy over taking man-made medicine for whatever and I recently have developed an interest in aromatherapy and have started doing my own research. Hey, I figure even if it doesn't prove to stand up to the claims, it at least smells divine and I lose nothing. I have a link to a couple aromatherapy places on my links page.
I am and have always been from the earliest age, an avid reader. I enjoy most type of books with the exception of those extremely off the wall sci-fi novels (although I dearly love Star Trek) or those slow paced murder mysteries. Usually what is found on the top 20 lists is something I will read.
A good book takes you on a journey and makes you care about the characters, just like a good movie will do.
Let me tell you, movies were my life savers over in Korea while I was stationed there. Although I liked the people and I had a good duty assignment, I truly hated every moment while I was there. A good movie put me out of my misery for a little while. Believe me, I saw several while there and I went on long long walks too to help. Also almost every Saturday there in Korea I would walk all day long, all around Seoul, Korea, There were days I walked ten miles. I know, I wore a pedometer during those long walks.
To be fair to the country of Korea, the reason I hated it so much was because I was in love and separated from the man I loved, he was stateside and I was in Korea for one long year.
True love, I hope to find it again. A little poem I have written, perhaps one day I will expand on it:
Animals, I love both cats and dogs but I find cats to be special. I dearly missed having cats while I was assigned to places in the military where I had to live in the barracks and wasn't allowed to have pets. I have two cats. You can meet them on their own pages here on this site.
Life~~ This world has alot of beauty to it right in the middle of so much of the meaness and injustices that co-exist with it. The meaness and injustices I ask myself what I can do to change that and I work on doing just that. So many wrongs and terrible things happen and its easy to feel rather overwhelmed by it all. Since I can't change the world, I change what I have control over, myself. If someone is broken-down and down-trodden and asks me for change on the street, I give it to them because, but for the grace of God, there I could be.
I truly believe that everyone has some redeeming quality to them, even if it is not readily apparent to me and I try to remember that. Plus, I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated and I would like to think if I was in need and only at the mercy of strangers, that someone would give me a hand. Maybe I am naive. If I am, I think it is amazing that I managed to hold on to some innocence in spite of everything and I am okay with that.
Simple Pleasures~~There is so much beauty in this world and I try very hard to appreciate all that I see and hear.
A wild violet among the grass, a blue, blue sky with big puffy white clouds, the sound of a genuine laugh from anyone. There are so many things simple pleasures and simple pleasures delight and remind me that all is not bad or dark or cruel and to me that is vitally important because the bad is so much easier to see. I look very closely and enjoy and appreciate the good and I want to always be that way.
I learned after a very long time that anger, blame, bitterness and resentment dwelling within me, accomplish nothing but hurting me further, so I learned and continue to learn how to let it all go. It's an ongoing process within myself, but my proof that I am more at peace now, tells me that letting the past wrongs that happened go instead of harboring the anger and hurt within is the right thing to do.
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