This track came on whilst I was on the peak-hour tube on my way to my last day working full-time in my current job in London. I got instant frisson. And it hit me how wonderfully, how beautifully this song sums up the last two years of my life… including the current chapter.
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Sooo many Skypings for my Sunday! You rock Beccy poos. Love.
Skype time with Corky “Knee Grooves” McCorkersons.
I’ve come to understand that I am here to find the most beautiful human beings on this planet, and fall in love with them - in all the ways that people are to be loved.
The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren’t Translatable Into English
Language can be a beautiful thing…
Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego)
The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.
Yuanfen (Chinese)
A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends.
Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese)
The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone’s hair.
Retrouvailles (French)
The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
Ilunga (Bantu)
A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.
La Douleur Exquise (French)
The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
Ya’aburnee (Arabic)
“You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
Forelsket (Norwegian)
The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love.
Saudade (Portuguese)
The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist.”
From bigthink.com
A beautiful video with an important message. Watch it. I hope you surprise yourself.
Love is love, whatever form it takes.
It’s a beautiful affliction.
"A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!"
Paul J. Meyer
I’ve got a plan
I’ve got an atlas in my hands
I’m gonna turn
When I listen to the lessons that I have learned…
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You’ll be making two people very happy - and I’ll be one of them.
Love.
