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Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 77

07 Aug 2016 33 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Calm, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Thoughts

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein

Is this not something we surely need to tackle?

What truth.

We, as humans, have evolved and developed, and as we have grown and changed, so has the world around us. From the foods we grow and eat, to the way we dress, from the way we move, to the way we communicate.

Development has also coloured our thinking, conditioned us to feel certain ways about particular races/religions/ animals/foods.

If we truly want to be able to view a future for our children, that doesn’t hold a sense of dread, a future where we feel excitement at what it may hold for them, then somehow, we need to all change our thinking.

Open mindedness, freedom of though, belief and speech, letting go of stereotypes.

When something bad happens, the punishment needs to punish the doers, not the rest of the community loosely connected to them by colour or faith.

We need to not be afraid to hold a hand out to help others in need.

I love this wave of RAoKs (Random Acts of Kindness).

But why is it random?

Why can’t it just be part of our nature?

Why are we so fixated on our looks and size?

There weren’t scales thousands of years ago. It’s what we see around us that subconsciously tells us what is right and what is wrong, what is hot and what is not. Because society and the media told us so.

Take time to ponder. Try and see which part of your thinking could do with a refresh…

Have a wonderful Sunday Peeps!

❤️

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 74

17 Jul 2016 29 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Calm, Quote, rest, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday

“Sometimes you need to do the right thing by yourself too, not just think of what is good for everyone else.” Ritu Bhathal

Today, I don’t even really have the energy to help Spidey an inspirational quote by someone else so, Spidey noted what I was saying to him instead!

Today is my day. By that I mean, I am not going to live it depending on a whole host of outside factors.

Of course, my own little family will be around, and things will be done accordingly, but for the rest of the world, I am not available.

It’s the end of the academic year. There is one week of term left.

As a teacher, I am dragging myself to school every day, counting the days until we can officially say holidays are here.

As a mum, I am already wondering what I need to do to keep my own two munchkins occupied over the 6 weeks.

As a wife, I know I want to give more time to my long-suffering, neglected Hubby Dearest.

But in order to do all this, I need energy, and that is what I am lacking!

I have had a hectic 2 weeks, with the emotional and mental stress of the school inspectors coming (still no result, we’ll find out in September!), visiting new pupils, and encouraging the old, and physical exhaustion due to the late nights that preparations have caused.

This is not including the over-tiredness from hosting some lovely family who came over to visit. They didn’t expect much from us, but when you have visitors, you need an alertness of some sort, and I can create that, via the second wind syndrome, but now I’m all out.

I feel the need for a charger to be plugged into me, as my battery is totally depleted!

There is a function at the temple today, and the responsible Ritu feels the need to go, but this time I have realised that the more I push myself, the harder I will find everything. So I am not going. Some people may not like that, but I don’t care!

I am chilling. We may even take the kids out somewhere later, but for now, I’m thinking of me!

So please Peeps, have a restful Sunday. Take time out for yourself as well as others out there! I plan to!

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 70 – Father’s Day Special

19 Jun 2016 22 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Father's Day, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday

‘I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.’ – Yehuda Berg

Spidey and I settled on this quote as a totally appropriate one for today, a special Father’s Day quote.

It encapsulates my feelings for my Pops totally. He is everything good that I see. A purity, soulfulness, spirituality, stability, all that makes life good.

A perfect father
Grounding me like an anchor
Whilst letting me fly

Ritu 2016

Spidey’s Serene Sundays – Part 62

24 Apr 2016 38 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Calm, grateful, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday

“I’ve seen better days, but I’ve also seen worse.
I don’t have everything I want, but I do have all that I need.
I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up.
My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed.”

-Anon

Spidey just gives us a gentle reminder today, to be grateful for all we do have, rather and focussing on what we don’t.

It’s so easy to chase dreams, and feel hard done by when something we wish for isn’t really within our grasp. But if we sit back and look at what we actually have, we realise we are richer than we thought.

If you are reading this, you have internet, and a mobile device or computer. You have electricity. You can read. Most likely, you have a roof over your head, and food in the kitchen.

And most important of all, if you are reading this, you have LIFE, only the biggest of all the riches out there!

Enjoy your day Peeps!

Luck and love!

Spidey’s Serene Sunday -Part 59

03 Apr 2016 28 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Calm, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sundays

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”– Carl Bard

Admit it.

There are always times in your life when you wished that you coulda done that again, or thought “if only…”

Thing is, it ain’t gonna happen again, there is no real life movie, where things will keep happening, over and over, until we get it right.

It’s best to try and draw a line under yesterday and start over.

Using the knowledge you have today, make a fresh start the next day, and endeavour to make it a better one.

Have a wonderful Sunday Peeps!

(I’m trying to make a fresh start on the kids bedroom… chucking things out like a loony, in the hope that we will soon have space to then move them into their own rooms, and that they can start with no clutter! Wish me luck… you should see my own room! I really need to learn how to live minimally…. but the problem is ‘everything’ is a memory, or useful!)