de l'autre source

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We have to live life for the moment 'now'. I wanted to plan too much. It was difficult, but I knew that there was a distant purpose to all of my actions. 

Now I understand that we cannot 'design' everything. Things happen. We do not control everything. We can experience everything, but cannot have 100% control of what we experience. We must, however, learn how to attain the best results of our experiences. There are positives and negatives of everything in life. Although we must recognise both sides, it is to our advantage if we focus on positives.

My week’s first note, introduces the post, ‘above’. It may be viewed as very ‘self-absorbed’, by myself, but hey did you check the name of the blog?

It can be argued that I am very superstitious, and this is very true. I believe that everything can be viewed differently, always. There are constants though.

For example, hehe, black cats. I was travelling to work on Wednesday morning, when…

…Black cat left to right, sees me, halts and turns to walk away.

I was left astounded, pondering what this could mean. The black cat did not cross my path in any particular direction, it actually made a conscious decision against doing such! I was flummoxed.

Accessibility. Hmm, hehe. I was learning earlier this week, whilst essentially ‘teaching’. I was teaching a French staff member at one of ‘my’ cafes, how to position the access ramp. They had it fine but, my missing French term, was for ‘upside-down’. I told them in English, but was then taught to use  the term ‘del’autre source’. So there, ‘de l’autre sorce’ means ‘upside down’!

Maintaining the theme, I like to drink an espresso + water, instead of a black coffee, or ‘Americano’.

A cappuccino how it is supposed to look:

Although many of us enjoy trying to design our lives, we must not.

Life just happens. Don't try and design your fate.

My penultimate note of the week, is not an instruction, more, a bit of advice.

 Preemptive politeness works!

I spend my current life in a wheelchair, and I feel comfortable with often using my tactic of ‘pre-emptive politeness’ works well. If you start off, by setting a good mood between yourself and another person, they will automatically feel under pressure to be nice and helpful in return (mwahahaha!). I do realize that I am very fortunate in being able to negotiate issues in doing such, but this is such an obvious fact of life, you are seriously missing out, if you cannot do such.

I have been cycling on my gym-bike a lot recently, noticing a slight improvement every time. I feel, however that I may have reached a ‘limit’, or ‘peak’. I cycle for 20min periods, varying total distances reached by hundreds of metres, most days. I had found that the most effective accompanying sounds are that of Erick Morrillo. Anyway, I have ‘peaked’. I try to beat my current record, missing out by ten metres! Twenty minutes of cycling, to miss out by such a small margin, shows me that I am at my max!

A couple of pics from last week's trip on the Southbank...