Ahhhh!

Positive coincidences are a wonderful thing, as are moments of realisation and recognition.

When I was still very conserative/right wing, 20 years old and managing a backpackers hostel in South Africa, a 37 year old Australian guy spent a few days there. Marc and I were perplexed as he had this absolute aura of peace and calmness about him - yet he had very little money, and did not have a job to go back to, and was not married, and did not own a house, and, and, etc ... How was he not stressed I wondered?

After lots of fun conversations over games of pool and a few drinks, on the last day of his stay he turned to me and out of the blue, he said "Your life really doesn't have to be like this". We stared at each for about 5 seconds whilst lost in thought, me contemplating that I knew what he was saying but didn't understand it, and him thinking 'she's registering but not realising'.

Well, with the joys of 'growing-up', I think I'm realising now what he really meant with that comment. At the end of the day, as long as you aren't hurting anyone including yourself, you really do have to play by your own rules inorder to make it a fair game.