The road less travelled.... #blogjune #11

Today's mantra: You may meet your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Well aren't we delving deep on this "hump" day!!

I was thinking more along the lines of the road less travelled, the path you didn't take and thinking about where that could've taken you - but I have touched on this in past posts and this is not what today's mantra is about.

I don't think we know our destiny so I'm not sure if I've ever really taken a step to avoid it.  Have you?

Or perhaps there is a little bit of us that do know exactly what our outcome of life will be and we don't want to go there - but we end up there anyway.

I do believe we are here for a reason, even if we may never know the reason until we are old enough to look back and smart enough to realise - perhaps not all of us get to this point.

I also believe that if we don't achieve what we have been put here for we may get to live it again.  Dejavu is just too strong at times to be just a dream - not unless I'm a "side kick" as Miss A put it today.  She was guessing the age of her swimming instructor and guessed right.  "I'm a side kick, you know," she said.  The swimming instructor and I looked at each other with confused looks.  "A side kick?" I asked.  "Yes a side kick," Miss A replied, "you know I know the future."  "Oh a psychic!!"  Don't you just love kids!!

Maybe this mantra is more about us knowing we have to do something, but we don't particularly want to do it but in a round about way we will end up doing it anyway?!?

Or maybe destiny is fate and no matter what road/choices we make, we will get to the same destination - the one we were supposed to get to?!?

What are your thoughts?

Blog December Post 13 - Sincerity

I got a set of Destiny Cards from my work Secret Santa and my word for today from the Destiny Cards is Sincerity!!

I thought I might use these cards as a prompt for what to post about.  But since the meaning of Sincerity is: The quality or condition of being sincere; genuineness, honesty, and freedom from duplicity. It may be a little deep for a morning post.  I'll try another word tomorrow.

Some of you may have read my "half post" from last night about the passing of one of my dear readers/borrowers.  Yesterday did have some fun moments to make up for that awfully sad one.

We had work Secret Santa - which I mentioned above.  With our Secret Santa you nominate to particpate and you draw a name out of a hat of a fellow worker - as we a small organisation it is organisation wide not just libraries - and I am the only library staff member that participates.  So I often pick people that I don't know very well which can make the gift buying difficult.

The rules of gift buying are simple - a limit of $10.

Usually if you know the person well you can find something fun or buy something and then make it fun.  For example, one year my car kept breaking down so my Secret Santa bought me a car care kit with screw driver, sponge, and car washing detergent.  Another example was from last year when some clever Secret Santa re-wrote a Dr Suess book for me - I may share this on a later post.

Needless to say, yesterday afternoon had a lot of laughter as our "Santa" handed gifts out and each participant has to read the card/poem/instructions out to everyone.

It was a nice way to finish up an otherwise sad day!