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Lover Just a Click Away….

Marchi P. — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:14:14 +0000

Times have changed, and as we all know the Internet has created new ways of human interaction through social networking sites, instant messaging and Internet forums. It could be the reason why most of us no longer think dating is an unusual way to meet a prospective new romantic partner. After all, millions of potential mates are just a click away.

Yes, the Internet does allow us to make contact and communicate with one another. We now have the opportunity to make friends with incredible people around the world and even become closer to former acquaintances.

I have definitely made friends online, which am grateful for. I am experiencing different cultures, different believes, different lifestyles that otherwise I might not have. These are people that I admire and consider myself very lucky to have met.

However, online dating, in my books, is far from a realistic life experience. How can a romantic relationship become, if not lived in the real world with real distractions. What about a person’s mannerisms, flaws…. Even in regular circumstances, physical chemistry, regardless of looks, is an important part of a relationship. Can those characteristics be seen online along with the sweet notions?

Let’s face it, online dating is nowhere near an in person encounter. Well, what I’m trying to say is, it’s the everyday life experience, whether good or bad, which in this case keeps you apart. Online you’re focused on that certain someone; meaning you could be falling in love with an online persona, in which case, expectations can lead to great disappointment.

While finding a mate online for some people is the only way, the concept of love may not be as concrete as it appears. People need an anticipated face to face meeting to see their many ’profiles’ whether it’s their best or worst, not just the best one they want to put forward.

The environment of the Internet is a temptation, which I believe, certain individuals need to simply feel in control of their future; no matter of the potential risks and agonizing experience.

Moreover, how deep can lovers be online? The build up of excitement can at times make people say things they don’t mean and later realize they don’t actually feel that way at all. Talk about getting your feelings, behaviours and time spent in a relationship out of sync. Very unrealistic feelings, if you ask me.

Love is a natural drive as powerful as life itself. Romance usually implies an expression of one’s love, or one’s emotional desires to connect with another person. The real danger of Internet dating is harmful and will creep up on you before you know it and may be trapped by the illusion.

Has old fashioned dating become so unfamiliar that we are now willing to live without all those interesting person to person experience, without that first meeting, without the impulsiveness? I will never forget the night I met my husband, but most of all I will never forget the way he first looked at me, his eyes said it all; and our storyline, is one I often share with our kids.

Once again, it is a wonderful way for people to connect with other who share same interests. As for a romantic relationship, I strongly believe it requires much more attention and satisfaction than just turning a computer on! To me, such quick and accessible intimacy doesn’t seem real or in some cases normal.

Though being a long time skeptic on this matter, I do have to say, every situation is different.

Auto DMs & How To Opt Out….

Marchi P. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:49:59 +0000

Thanks to twitter, I have come across some of the finest people life has to offer, however, I find it extremely difficult to befriend with certain twitter users; reason being ”Auto DMs”. If you want to actually connect with me, do so.

“Auto DMs” (direct messages) are automatically sent by a user of an account that you follow.

I do understand for some users it’s an appropriate option to use “Auto DMs”, as many of us don’t have the time to respond to everyone personally. Myself, I do ppreciate the acknowledgement of my follow, even though they are incredibly impersonal!

Now, what about the ones that have taken it one step further. It’s one thing to use “Auto DM” to greet new followers, but to use them to promote services or products… makes DMs the closest thing twitter has to spam.

Do “DMs” annoy me? No, however, I do prefer my time spent on twitter, with people that actually acknowledge me for ME and who I am, rather for my “follow”.

If you’re a twitter user, you either love or hate “Auto DMs” and for those of you who are no longer willing to put up with such a ”Promotional Tool” (as some have referred to) you can Opt Out by taking the following steps…

- Visit www.socialoomph.com(You don’t need a Social Oomph account to opt out of “Auto DMs”).

- See menu on the left hand side and click on “DM Opt- Out”.

- Log into your twitter account.

- Follow @OptMeOut.

- Wait for @OptMeOut to follow you back. They’ll send you a DM telling you they have.

- Next, send a DM to @OptMeOut.

- After sending the DM, unfollow @OptMeOut – this way your opting out remains private, @OptMeOut will unfollow you as well.

But, do keep in mind, the Auto DMs may connect you with some incredible people. There’s always the choice of deleting such messages, however, I do think unfollowing an individual because of a DM, is somehow extreme.

Socrates Quotes….

Marchi P. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:58:31 +0000

“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”

“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”

“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”

“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

“The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”

“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

“The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.”

“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

“Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“Philosophy begins with wonder.”

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

“How much there is in the world I do not want.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”

“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”

“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

“An education obrained with money is worse than no education at all.”

“Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”

Three Ladies in a Sauna….

Marchi P. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:40:41 +0000

Three women, two younger and one senior citizen, were sitting naked in a sauna.

Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The young woman pressed her forearm and the beep stopped. The others looked at her questioningly, “That was my pager”, she said. ”I have a microchip under the skin of my arm!”

A few minutes later, a phone rang. The second young woman lifted her palm to her ear. When she finished, she explained, “That was my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand.”

The older woman felt very low tech. Not to be out done, she decided she had to do something just as impressive. She stepped out of the sauna and went to the bathroom. She returned with a piece of toilet paper hanging from her rear end.

The others raised their eyebrows and stared at her.

The older woman finally said….

“Well, will you look at that, I’m getting a fax!!”

Sand and Stone….

Marchi P. — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:06:48 +0000

Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other…

I, on the other hand, believe the love between two people should not be subjected to just one day of the year, but celebrated every day! Frankly, the thought of acting on such affection only once a year is terrifying. They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them….

Two friends were walking through the desert and during some time of the journey, they had an argument; and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face!”

They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath….

The one who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire! and started drowning, but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “Today my friend saved my life!”

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend, asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The friend replied, “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in stone.

Did You Know….

Marchi P. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:01:37 +0000

The average adult eyeball weighs under 30 grams.

Podiatrists state that the average pair of feet travel 190,000km in a lifetime.

Clams have a row of eyes around their shells.

Owls are reportedly the only birds that can see the colour blue.

The left lung is smaller than the right, allowing room for your heart.

Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea.

80% of all roses species in the world come from Asia.

A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500,000 baths.

A mysophobic person has an intense fear of infection.

Botanically, true berries include the grape, tomato and eggplant, but not raspberries and blackberries.

During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman’s middle finger is reduced.

Seals sleep underwater and surface for air without waking.

Tuna suffocate if they stop swimming.

An igloo is so well insulated that you can sit inside without a coat when the outside temperature is as low as -30 degrees.

The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

90% of all living things in the sea are made up of plankton.

It takes a week to make jelly beans.

The US bought Florida from Spain.

Four tablespoons of tomato sauce contains the nutritional equivalent of a medium sized tomato.

Rabbits are born hairless and with closed eyes; hares are born covered with fur and with open eyes.

In ancient Rome, oysters were so highly prized that they were sold for the weight in gold.

The cashew nut belongs to the poison ivy family.

The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.

If the stomach did not store food, people would have to eat every 20 minutes.

Brontology is the study of thunder.

Fingers grow faster on your favoured hand.

A building in which silence is enforced, like a library, is referred to as a selentium.

Milk is heavier than cream.

Yoko Ono quotes….

Marchi P. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:00:50 +0000

“I love dancing. I think it’s better to dance than to march through life.”

“What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can’t do anything, but it really isn’t true.”

“All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!”

“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many times you died this week.”

“What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.”

“Art is my life and my life is art.”

“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.”

“Dying is a necessary act for living. Just like inhaling is necessary in order to exhale.”

“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”

“True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.”

“At least I had that, one guy understood me.

“The cynicism that you have is not your real “soul.”

“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”

“I love dancing. I think it’s better to dance than to march through life.”

“The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.”

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”

“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.”

“I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music – that makes it exciting.”

“People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.”

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autunm passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”

“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”

“No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.”

“If he’s observing me from up there, I’m sure he’s proud of me. It’s going to go on and on. This is what I love now, so it’s great.”

“I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.”

“Cosmetics is a boom to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near sighted man.”

“I’m a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I’ll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don’t want to do that.”

“I’m not going to doubt my life.”

“When people get cynical about love, they should look at us (Yoko and John Lennon) and see it is possible.”

“If your life changes, we can change the world, too.”

“John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.”

“I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don’t have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity; a function. We don’t need history.”

“Life with another person is always difficult.”

“Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.”

“Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.”

“Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.”

“When I read about the battle of the widows, I thought I’m not John’s widow, Yoko is John’s widow.”

Australia….

Marchi P. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:41:25 +0000

Australia is estimated to be 22,126,799 making it the 51st most populous country in the world.

Australia’s National anthem is ‘Advance Australia Fair’, however, until 1984 ‘God save the Queen’ was the National anthem.

The kangaroo and the Emu are present on the coat of arms of Australia.

Australia is also known as the The Land Down Under because it’s the only permanent populated continent that is entirely below the equator.

Australia was the second country to give women the vote.

Australia has been known as the lucky country. It is the world’s largest iron ore exporter and largest producer of bauxite and alumina. It is also the largest exporter of sheep wool and meat.

Australia is the only country in the world to occupy a single continent.

Australia is the 6th largest country, area wise, in the world.

One third of Australia’s land is desert.

Since 1945, over six million people from 200 countries have come to Australia as new settlers.

Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations.

Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

Australians drive on the left side of the road.

The oldest skeleton found in Australia is more than 40,000 years old.

The kangaroo, emu, koala bear and kookaburra are animal species found only in Australia.

There are six states and two territories in Australia.

Western Australia is the largest state in the country and is almost the same size as Western Europe.

Tasmania was once part of mainland Australia, before the melting of ice caps 12,000 years ago.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world, measuring over 2,012.5km.

Ayers Rock is 348 metres high.

New South Wales, with 6.8 million people has the largest population of any of Australia’s states.

Sidney is the oldest as well as the largest city, population wise, in Australia.

Sydney’s Opera House was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon and it’s roof weigh more than 161,000 tons.

The Opera House is one of the most popular World Heritage Sites in the world.

Melbourne was formerly known as Batmania, after one of its founders John Batman.

Melbourne has the largest remaining tram public transport in the world.

Melbourne founded the world’s first gay/lesbian radio station in 1993.

After Athens, Melbourne is the second most Greek populated city in the world.

The black box flight recorder for aircraft was invented in Australia in 1958 by the Aeronautical research scientist David Warren.

The first official world surfing championships were held in Sydney in 1964.

Australia day, also known as Anniversary Day and Foundation Day, celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788.

Happy Australia Day!

Do you need a Life Coach?….

Marchi P. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:40:04 +0000

The life coach has become the modern person’s must have accessory. These professionals are more than just an adviser, they are expert at guiding you to deal with certain situations in your life that we might need to improve. They help you through your toughest decisions and focus on your goals, behaviours, stress management as well as time management.

So whether it is to revamp your love life, boost your bank account, improve your career or en achieve the perfect body, these kick but confidantes will inspire and guidance you to find the focus and drive you need to get the life you want and make your dreams come true.

Do you need a life coach? Please answer True/False to the following questions to get your score:

CAREER

I like my job and enjoy going to work each day. True/False
I work less than 45 hours per week. True/False
I am content with my current salary. True/False
I am happy with my career direction. True/False
I communicate freely with my manager. True/False
I have at least one friend at work. True/False

FINANCES

I feel I have financial freedom in my life. True/False
I save for special things and events. True/False
I have long term financial goals. True/False
I have no debts. True/False
I spend 10% of my income on my personal development. True/False

RELATIONSHIPS

I enjoy meeting new people and forming new relationships. True/False
I have three supportive friends who I trust completely. True/False
I have had a romantic relationship in the last year. True/False
I enjoy regular contact with my family. True/False
I have someone I can turn to and ask for help about anything. True/False
I feel comfortable expressing concern and care to those I love. True/False

BODY

I drink less than 10 alcoholic drinks a week. True/False
I can relax and regularly take time out just for me. True/False
I feel good when I wake up in the mornings. True/False
I exercise three to four times a week. True/False
I regularly eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. True/False
I drink at least eight glasses of water each day. True/False

If your score is:

17-32 You’re in good shape but don’t get too comfortable. Keep setting yourself higher goals and things will just keep getting better.

9-16 Things are OK but a mediocre life often means you’re treading water. It’s time to get some balance and go for what you really want.

0-8 Decide what your priorities are and take action immediately. Review every aspect of your life from your finances to relationships and take steps towards creating your dream.

Life Coach Directory

A New Year Resolution….

Marchi P. — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:14:50 +0000

I personally, do not believe we have to wait for the first day of January for a new resolution. Each day is a new beginning, it is a new smile, a new tear, a new laughter, a new sorrow. A life change is a commitment that an individual should make when appropriate! No reason to wait for the new year to get it right, take the chance now, and rise above the little things…

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A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street. going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.

As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jaguar’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the car back to the spot where the brick had be thrown.

The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting…’What was that all about, and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That’s a new and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?’

The young boy was apologetic…’Please, mister please, I’m sorry but I didn’t know what else to do!’ he pleaded. ‘I threw the brick because no one else would stop.’ With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car.

‘It’s my brother’ he said, ‘he rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can not lift him up.’ Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, ‘Would you please, help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and too heavy for me to lift.’

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going, to be okay.

‘Thank you and may God bless you,’ the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his wheelchair bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home!

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:

‘Don’t go through life so fast, that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.’