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People, Time, Place | The Erratic Elements Of Life

The people / time / place coefficient.

Sometimes, the people are right, it’s just the wrong time and place.

On other occasions, the chances time-out but the people and place still fit.

Then there’s the opportunity syncing with the place, however, those who are around don’t match.

Sometimes, all the elements are there and make total sense, it’s just not what was expected and / or wanted.

The varied pathways which form our possible lives are multitudinous beyond belief due to their ever shifting elemental permutations and fluctuations⁠—it’s amazing how anything ever happens intentionally.

And yet here we are, expending so much energy to make ‘it happen’ (because consciously or not, we know every chance-possibility might be nudged in our favour due to the effort).

Attempting with wild abandon to make things fit (because of previous failings still stinging the spirit into action).

Throwing ourselves in with all our might to align all the jumbled elements available (because it’s our nature).

No wonder we’re exhausted!

I wish for you the right people, at the right time, together, in the right place.

*the above is an actual recent Wordle experience I had which sparked this brain-fart of a blog post.

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People Are Awesome | The Hope Generator That Is TEDx

ADDENDUM 21.8.19 Here’s a short video from the day of me talking about the above, full reflections here:

The innate goodness of humans.

Last night was the first of five TEDxWellington speaker coaching sessions with these people:

Being surrounded by impressive souls (full bios) was a much needed reminder of the innate brilliance of humans doing superb things (from an initiative to track human rights violations to how to build homes so that the materials can be reused, a programme to teach mindfulness to children to new technology to help diagnose breast health, from ethically built sensors to monitor the health of your home to an ongoing project which cleans our underwater environment, from teaching communities to cook on a budget to an evolving body positive programme for females, from championing the use of menstrual cups for system change to rethinking our criminal justice system).

To feel that warmness of hope and genuine awe seems rare these days in the global gloom which blasts through the news and our other media channels.

Devoting time to remind oneself that the world is not what the media tells you is a must for our mental health. So thank you TEDx for continuing to offer opportunities which lightens the soul.

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