So my day was already off to a rocky and unstable start, but my mood was lifted when I saw an article in the Metro newspaper about a Smurf holiday resort in Turkey with little Smurf mushroom bungalows – they looked so cute! I want one!!! I have attached a picture so you can share in my excitement!
So I was away this weekend down to visit Natasha and Jade down in Surrey. On Thursday night the moon was so magnificent – I looked out the window and felt like I could almost touch its cratered face. I really think the moon plays on our moods by touching the earth with its lunar energy!
Back in London with Jo and Shazz we had good intentions of visiting the Natural History Museum, but the queue was just so long, so we ventured to another museum and wandered about at the various sculptures, photography and architecture. In this one room they have these cavernous medieval archways that you can just stare at and marvel.
On Sunday we went to Hyde Park (I wanted to have our own little mini easter egg hunt, but that flew out the window when we came to Speaker Corner). You can really get lost in Hyde Park (smaller than New York’s Central Park, but it still carries its own unique energy) and stroll around the pathways, gardens, or just slump down on an open patch of grass and people watch. Anyway we joined the gathering at Speaker’s Corner…now for those that haven’t heard of this corner, here is a briefing that I found which explains it down to a tee…
“Located on the corner of Park Lane and Cumberland Gate, opposite Marble Arch tube, Speakers' Corner is the spiritual home of the British democratic tradition of soapbox oratory. Every Sunday since the right of free assembly was recognised in 1872, people from all walks of life have gathered to listen to speeches about anything and everything.
Amongst those who have attended meetings there, are the some of the most influential figures in world history like Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels and Lenin. Even Cromwell's corpse was hung up here in a cage for public display, after he had died as a warning to others who might wish to abolish the Monarchy. Speaker's Corner has had a more powerful influence than any "university" in the world, because here there are no entry requirements, no rules of intellectual formality and above all no class restrictions. It is as Leslie James the Hyde Park pamphleteer wrote a fitting location to represent "the century of the common man."
Tens of thousands of people come to Speaker's Corner once or twice a year, thousands more who come 5-10 times a year, and hundreds who come virtually through hell or high water. When you consider that there is nothing to buy here, there is no music, just human interaction without the mediation of machines and without any protection from the weather you begin to get a small glimpse of the significance of this place.
The human brain is however not static but undergoing constant change, a person may think one thing, and yet internally have doubts. Speaker's Corner may be seen as a dynamic refection of mass psychology in that you have here people from every walk of life, every class, and almost every country.
Speaker's Corner is perhaps the most dynamic mirror of human consciousness in the world.”
We ended up standing listening to this one guy standing on a ladder (I think his name was Nicholas) for hours, he was just so informative. With every verbal attack, he backed up his case with facts, figures and logic. It is a place that can easily make or break your faith or beliefs. After an information overload, our brains were feeling pretty wired, so we took a time out and lay on the grass for a while and fell asleep to the chirping birds and muffled sounds of people passing us by. We lay there enclosed in our own little bubble of white light and comfort.
On Monday I left London in the afternoon and made my way back up to Coventry. Along the way, I was totally wrapped up in my own thoughts. Like I was having a full conversation with myself with those little voices in my head that are always there. As long as they are my own little voices hey! But I was just thinking about how ones choices can change your life in so many ways. Like by taking one choice, opens doors to places and people that you would not have met or encountered if you had made the alternative choice. Sometimes we just focus so much energy on making the right choice and seeing the choices in black and white, that your indecision or procrastinating about the decision ends up becoming another choice. You are choosing to not make a choice yet.
Being overseas since I finished school, has forced me to make so many choices, that when I analyse each one, I get lost in such an intricate web of my own fate and destiny. I try not to dwell on each choice in my life, because that would just cause doubt within my self about the choices I made. Instead I am reflecting on my choices, seeing the good and experience it has brought me, and how it has contributed to my own inner growth. We can’t go back in time, yet we are so stuck in our own pasts, that we rarely embrace the present. We so often judge people by the ‘emotional baggage’ they carry, instead of seeing them in the present, how they are right now before us.
There are two sayings that I think of now when writing this, one says “Each horse thinks its pack is the heaviest” and the other “I complained because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet.”
I am not really sure if there is a point to my ramblings, but then again I don’t think there always needs to be a point. Sometimes you just want to air out your thoughts, before they become lost in the cobwebs of our minds.
Anyway I hope that whatever choices you make today and in the tomorrows, may you always follow your own truth.
Love, Peace and Safe Travels
Orangeblossom xxx
