Heyoka_11
25th November 2011, 07:02
When sharing a self-empowering message, it pays to take it for granted that the recipient has sufficient self awareness to understand your words.
G'day All,
I was given the opportunity to make a little difference in someone's life last night, and I thought the tale worth repeating.
As some of you know, I work in the mining industry, in a remote region of Western Australia's North -West. It's a pretty hard drinking, blokey environment, where the usual after hours topics of conversation revolve around grizzling about work, the opposite sex, or arguing over whose shout it is for the next round of drinks.
One of the younger fellows that I know, all of twenty years of age, is a rather flamboyant individual, quite tall, covered in tattoos, whose main priority in life, or so he would have us believe, is the number of sexual conquests he chalked up when last on leave. He comes across as an extememly confident young man, is a former state champion in a popular sport, and seems to attract a fan club of girls wherever he goes. But right from the get go, I knew that there was a depth to this person that his brovado could not betray.
He had taken to joining me for dinner, and last night during a lull in conversation, I raised the subject of numerology, and the difference that it had made in my life. I asked him if he had ever heard of numerology, and to my surprise, be told me that he had an Aunt who, "was into all that wierd stuff". Oh well, that was better than "Nuh!" I thought. I offered to knock up a reading for him later in the evening, "Just for a laugh" I assured him. He was happy to give me his full name and date of birth, and probably thought little of it if there was going to be a laugh involved.
Later in the evening, I sat him down at my laptop to read three pages on the most basic aspects of his numerological reading, while I joined a small gathering outside my room, where the conversation was fast descending into the gutter (Grossing each other out is a pastime in Australian mining camps). Now I thought that it might take this fellow five minutes perhaps to skim through this reading and honestly thought he would gain little from it.
Here are a few brief exerts from his reading:
Others may perceive you as very cold and even socially dysfunctional but actually your detachment from others is very spiritually sophisticated
Your reluctance to let anyone get to know the real you is an innate defense mechanism that prevents you from being hurt by others.
Living too much inside your head might present a lifetime's worth of challenge for you. Your cool personality often makes it difficult for you to make friends.
You are a deeply spiritual individual who often displays a deep interest in religion or the occult at a very early age.
You are very aware of feeling as insignificant as a grain of sand in the Universe and believe that materialism, prejudice and lust just don't matter in the long run
As you are naturally very lonely and insecure, you are particularly vulnerable to joining a cult or becoming fanatical in the religious sense.
He finally emerged over ten minutes later, and I greeted him with "Well, how far off your intended path are you?; like, did any of it make any sense to you?", attempting to make light of it all.
"Actually most of it made sense to me" he replied in a somewhat humbled voice.
I expressed my surprise, but he assured me that he was able relate to most of what he had read.
Oops! I thought to myself, now realising that I had foolishly prejudged the fellow. What he read had honestly struck a chord, and he had the courage to admit that to me.
I had made the mistake of allowing myself to judge him based on the bravado that he portayed, instead of accepting him as another living, breathing, human being, with a heart and soul, and the same basic need for love and acceptance as the rest of us have. He had sufficient self awareness to recognise the truth, but I chose to think him unable.
Anyway, it was all good, and no offence was taken, and I now have the opportunity to make a difference in another persons life that I hope will be a positive one.
Live a lie long enough, and you will end up believing it to be true
I hope the day comes when he thanks me for having brought numerology to his attention, not for the sake of being thanked, but for knowing that it has helped another soul to drop the facade and learn to love themselves for who they really are, and to understand why they are here on Earth in the first place.
Thanks for your time,
Tony.
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G'day All,
I was given the opportunity to make a little difference in someone's life last night, and I thought the tale worth repeating.
As some of you know, I work in the mining industry, in a remote region of Western Australia's North -West. It's a pretty hard drinking, blokey environment, where the usual after hours topics of conversation revolve around grizzling about work, the opposite sex, or arguing over whose shout it is for the next round of drinks.
One of the younger fellows that I know, all of twenty years of age, is a rather flamboyant individual, quite tall, covered in tattoos, whose main priority in life, or so he would have us believe, is the number of sexual conquests he chalked up when last on leave. He comes across as an extememly confident young man, is a former state champion in a popular sport, and seems to attract a fan club of girls wherever he goes. But right from the get go, I knew that there was a depth to this person that his brovado could not betray.
He had taken to joining me for dinner, and last night during a lull in conversation, I raised the subject of numerology, and the difference that it had made in my life. I asked him if he had ever heard of numerology, and to my surprise, be told me that he had an Aunt who, "was into all that wierd stuff". Oh well, that was better than "Nuh!" I thought. I offered to knock up a reading for him later in the evening, "Just for a laugh" I assured him. He was happy to give me his full name and date of birth, and probably thought little of it if there was going to be a laugh involved.
Later in the evening, I sat him down at my laptop to read three pages on the most basic aspects of his numerological reading, while I joined a small gathering outside my room, where the conversation was fast descending into the gutter (Grossing each other out is a pastime in Australian mining camps). Now I thought that it might take this fellow five minutes perhaps to skim through this reading and honestly thought he would gain little from it.
Here are a few brief exerts from his reading:
Others may perceive you as very cold and even socially dysfunctional but actually your detachment from others is very spiritually sophisticated
Your reluctance to let anyone get to know the real you is an innate defense mechanism that prevents you from being hurt by others.
Living too much inside your head might present a lifetime's worth of challenge for you. Your cool personality often makes it difficult for you to make friends.
You are a deeply spiritual individual who often displays a deep interest in religion or the occult at a very early age.
You are very aware of feeling as insignificant as a grain of sand in the Universe and believe that materialism, prejudice and lust just don't matter in the long run
As you are naturally very lonely and insecure, you are particularly vulnerable to joining a cult or becoming fanatical in the religious sense.
He finally emerged over ten minutes later, and I greeted him with "Well, how far off your intended path are you?; like, did any of it make any sense to you?", attempting to make light of it all.
"Actually most of it made sense to me" he replied in a somewhat humbled voice.
I expressed my surprise, but he assured me that he was able relate to most of what he had read.
Oops! I thought to myself, now realising that I had foolishly prejudged the fellow. What he read had honestly struck a chord, and he had the courage to admit that to me.
I had made the mistake of allowing myself to judge him based on the bravado that he portayed, instead of accepting him as another living, breathing, human being, with a heart and soul, and the same basic need for love and acceptance as the rest of us have. He had sufficient self awareness to recognise the truth, but I chose to think him unable.
Anyway, it was all good, and no offence was taken, and I now have the opportunity to make a difference in another persons life that I hope will be a positive one.
Live a lie long enough, and you will end up believing it to be true
I hope the day comes when he thanks me for having brought numerology to his attention, not for the sake of being thanked, but for knowing that it has helped another soul to drop the facade and learn to love themselves for who they really are, and to understand why they are here on Earth in the first place.
Thanks for your time,
Tony.
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