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Something to aleviate my tension! Very Inspiring Blogger Award!

02 May 2015 21 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Award, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, VEry Inspiring Blogger Award

Awarded 1/5/15

Yesterday am email popped up and in it was a lovely surprise from the gorgeous Erica Kind… A nomination for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award!

I have been following Erica for a few weeks, and she, me, and we seem to have clicked in a great way, and I was so honoured to have received this from her, thank you so much Erica! ❤ ❤

The Rules

Thank the person who nominated you and add their link to
List the award rules so your nominees will know what to do.
Tell 7 hidden facts about yourself.
Nominate 10-15 other bloggers. (Nominate however many you wish to, I do!)
Contact your nominees and provide a link to your post.
Display the award logo (button) on your blog, whether on your sidebar or about page, or special award page.

7 facts about me…

I’m in a bit of tension right now, but thinking about new facts to reveal about myself is fading that tension, and giving me a new one!
I learned how to play the Guitar, the Recorder, and the Piano as a child, but can I still play any of them???? Nope! But I can sing!
I have family in the UK, Finland, India, Kenya, Uganda, USA, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Norway, and I’m sure I have forgotten a few there!
My biggest hope, to make a positive difference to the lives of the children I work with.
Its been nearly 2 months, and I am STILL hula hooping!!!!!! 10 minutes a day! Really! I am actually sticking to something exercise related! That is a miracle!!
I like chocolate, no I LOVE chocolate, but it makes me itch! I eat a bar, it feels so good, then I scratch myself to bits, but oh… it’s worth it!
I went to Russia at 16, and saw the first ever MacDonald’s opened there, the queue for a burger was a mile long, I kid you not! needless to say, we did not wait in that queue, we didn’t fly all the way to the Soviet Union to queue for burgers…!

My Nominees

A Little Daydreamer
Blog Of A Mad Black Woman
The Ninth Life
Waffle Me This
Stereotypically Able
Random Writings on the Bathroom Wall
Sheldon Kleeman

Again, thank you so much to my nominator, Erica! And to my nominees, please don’t feel obliged to take part, but if you do, let me know, I love reading the new facts you reveal about yourselves!

Perfect Imperfections

02 May 2015 24 Comments

by Ritu in Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Acceptance, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Harsh Reality, Imperfect, Perfect, poem, Rejection

I’m not perfect but
My perfect imperfections
Make me pretty close
Ritu 2015

I’ve been in bed all day. Worrying about something that is out of my hands, but the culmination of which could change my life considerably.

It involves an acceptance, or in essence, a rejection.

But it occurred to me that it’s really up to me how I take whatever the outcome.

If it is a positive, then really, my tension should go away, and I should be able to sleep peacefully at night, happy in the knowledge that I was the right person, the perfect person.

But if it ends in rejection, does that mean that I am not good enough? Not perfect?

Well the above haiku I penned is what I decided. No matter what the decision, for my faults, or imperfections which we all have, I’m perfect for me.

I’m perfect in someone’s eyes.

Maybe not everybody’s but I don’t care!

There may be things about me that might not tick everyone’s boxes, but my differences are what make me the person I am, and the way I am, brings much, to many.

So whatever the outcome, I will look in the bright side. I won’t take it as a kick in the teeth if it is not the outcome I wanted, but that I’m standing at the bottom of another learning curve which I will overcome too, and that with a smile on my face!

And if I get the acceptance I crave, then I’ll probably berate myself for not having more faith in myself, but again, it’ll be with a smile!

Be positive Peeps, it’s the best way to be!

If you’re not, you’ll end up like me today, in bed with a sore head, something I do NOT wish to repeat!

My glass is always half full! Never half empty…