Paul's Corner

My brothers birthday today. A day to celebrate his life. But life got the better of him and he is no longer with us. He would have turned 37 today. I miss him! He lost his battle with life - some would say - but lets face it, we all do at the end of the day. We are in fact born and begin the long and supposedly joy filled experience of slowly walking towards our death. I do not mean to be negative just truthful. I look at life as a challenge - the ultimate adventure where there are no winners or losers just fellow adventurers. I guess any time you like you can dip out of the adventure - after all it's your life, but the problem is no one seems to dip out when they are happy, positive and balanced.

Thinking of my brothers birth and the joy we had as kids, as brothers seems to make today all the sadder, it still hurts. I want to honour his smile, his joy, his generosity, his love, his capacity to give, his humour. I thank you my brother for sharing some of the adventure with me - it was an honour and a joy.

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For those of us left it important for us to share the continueing adventure. All too often people hide in thier own pain, ignore thier feelings in the hope it is not true or it will go away. It wont if you hang on to it in this way. Infact you might even feel this pain in your body manifested as injuries or stiffnesses.....it may stay with you longer until all you feel is pain now and not the joy of memories, nor the joy of moving on.

This adventure called Life is pretty hard yakka - it would be boring if it was easy! Have fun even in the hard times and as best as possible honour the journey. Love the Adventure.

I wish you all the best.