SO MANY GODS, WHEN WILL WE WISE UP?

IGNORANCE IS STILL THE MOST UNFORTUNATE COMMODITY THAT AS HUMAN BEINGS, WE CAN POSSESS!! Post No.53 (A 7 minute read) 

Exactly how many gods are in service at this moment in time, I cannot know! They come and go with time. We are seeing that in my birth country of Gran Bretaña, where the British folk are by vast majority, 80% of them, non-religious believers! It has taken over four hundred and fifty years to get this far.

A female leader it will have to be, who gets the ball rolling on changing all that has become associated with our respective faiths, beliefs and realms of hope! But of course, we can see evermore clearly that it is MAN-KIND who is every living organism´s enemy no.1.

Even though we were in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, we still had enormous numbers of people world wide, who just had to travel to their homes for religious festivals. HEADS and RUMPS, as I say! We had seen madness and the resulting deaths which were a consequence of our summer holiday travel all over the world. 

Now it was the turn of the one and a half billion Indian folk to come out and celebrate their biggest festival of the year, Diwali. Where had that former Hindu wisdom gone? Why could the leaders of the faiths not speak to their SHEEP and tell them, "FOLKS, we have got a lethal virus in circulation and we are at serious risk of infection and possible death! We must STAY at home and we must observe the restrictions for the GREATER GOOD!"

It was horrifying. The multitudes came out in force and the funeral pyres were burning for weeks and weeks. Education and being able to make good decisions for yourself and your family, that is what is so sadly lacking! The COVID-19 pandemic did not mean that we could not observe all of these long-standing calls to come together and give praises to an invisible being!

It just meant that we needed to do it in a more responsible way and not cluster in big crowds where the virus could be so easily spread. Sadly though, there are those for whom life rotates around these religious dates. They RELIGIOUSLY have to go through the same established protocol each and every year without fail!

These events are the high points in an otherwise miserably, unsatisfactory year. So many people absolutely live for these particular days of the year. I was horrified to see that in Europe, with all of our pretensions to intelligence, well, we were the worst of all. Christmas just had to go ahead. Of course it did! Jesus of Nazareth was born on the 25th December, so they say!

No one was talking about erasing his birthday from the calendar, were they? No, just cut out the christmas parties! Cut out the christmas travel! Cut out the big family get togethers! Nothing was said about christmas trees, fairy lights, christmas pudding and roast turkey, now was it? No, all the commercial MAN-MADE extras were filling out the shops as of November!!!!

Was it not that having spent many months preparing all our commercial traditional christmas fare, we had to buy and consume it all!!! We have picked and mixed our national traditions and have added many layers now to those established protocols! The traditions of other nations have been usurped and added to the local existing ones.

All of that could still go ahead, you just had to do it all with very limited company and not travel all over the world!!! There are those who live for their religious festivals but are they worth dying for? For many, the answer was obviously YES! The Indian variant reared its ugly head and was named Delta. This turned out to be the most lethal of the COVID-19 variants to date! And our religious festivals and the desire to spend them with our families and loved ones, saw the Delta variant very quickly spread to all corners of the world!

Could no one put human life before the invisible gods? Can you not pay thanks to a god in your home? Or is it necessary to make a visible display of, "Look at me! I am a good christian, catholic, jew, Hindu, Muslim etc. I am worthy of god´s consideration!" The number of people who died because of religious festival get togethers was dramatic.

Your last act in life was giving thanks to a non-existant entity! Those who took COVID-19 home to the older members of the family and then watched them die, must have been mortified. This could all have been prevented by using just a tiny, little bit of common sense! And of course, putting life before death! But when the life after this one is the one that you are focusing on every day, well, you need to make sure that you book your place, do you not?

I understood, I really did! We had been seriously restricted in our movements nationally and internationally for the greater part of a year, of course everyone wanted to go home and see their loved ones, I did! But I did not go though! I was not going to take the risk of travelling and having contact with so many people, to then go and see my 80 year old mother!!!!

MY BELOVED FIRST CREATION! MY LIFE AND THOUGHTS IN MY OWN WORDS!

My book ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN is winding down now and this chapter forty-nine, is called SO MANY GODS! And I have forgotten to say Hello to all of you who are looking my way. As no one makes communication, I do not know who you are as yet. I am talking to myself for now. Coming up to today and I bale out of my sinking ship that was headed for the rocks!

The beginning of today and I found myself with 70 euros in the world, my music collection and a few household goods and started again. After twenty years living up in Barcelona, I was so ready to leave. It had become such an ugly place to be. The demons were crowding me bitterly and so miserably. My beloved Puppy left home, it had become a volatile place as every place that has a NARCISSIST in will be!

I am now eight years on from that date and the fortunes have been mixed since then. It was an eight month phase of learning to start from scratch again and there were many novelties on the way. I managed to get my first COVID-19 vaccine done in this chapter, which was something of a relief at that time!

My first book was titled ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN and the second book is titled ON THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT. They were this female INFJs preparation work for her right now, right this moment, here and now, TODAY! What may the third book be titled? I am not ready to begin writing as yet. I have to adjust to 24 hours a day with my NARCISSIST first! 

Here are the amazon links to the paperback version: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN - Paperback and the e-book version: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN - e-book

There are still two more chapters left, COMING FULL CIRCLE is the next one for review, so check back for that. Thank you for reading and please FEEL welcome to comment below or make contact via the contact box. I have a follow tab too should you wish to keep up to date.

Do you know anyone who died because of religious festival attendance and travel? Did you go travelling for religious festivals and become infected? Were you able to think of the GREATER GOOD or just your own desire to eat, drink and be merry?

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FLOATING INTO AN UNKNOWN FUTURE; TO DRY LAND?

YES, MY FUTURE IS UNKNOWN BUT I DO NOW HAVE A FRIEND ON DRY LAND! Post No.52 (A 10 minute read) 

What a strange array of sensations that a person can FEEL in a life time and yet still find new sensations unlooked for! They come of their own accord, you really have no preparation for them as you have not experienced them before, ALL new therefore and you know, the INFJ is always up for a challenge. And CHALLENGE is just what I have got staring me in the face, 24 hours a day, from now on!!!

My partner is working his last day today before retirement, from now on I will have his company 24 hours a day and whatever that will mean. To say that I have not prepared for this would be completely untrue. I have spent the last three years trying to see where I am at and why! Where I want to go and why? And try to see how I can now do a great big U-turn and find my way back to solid ground again after having been all at sea for 28 years!!!

A CLOUDY START TO THE LAST DAY OF THIS ERA OF MY LIFE!!

Hello and a very good afternoon to you readers, wherever you are in the world today. I am in SUSPENSION this week, I am in SUSPENSE! I really do not know what the future will hold for me but I know that I must get my hands back on the tiller of this boat that I have been living on as of 28 years. I want it to stop rocking so abruptly and violently!

It FELT like a wonderful place to be until I was no longer allowed to touch the tiller and was kept below deck most of the time. I got the FEEL of movement but from below deck, I could not know that we were in fact anchored in the bay and that FEEL of movement was the volatility of my partner and his ever changing moods!! Thank you, brilliant Paul Weller (formerly The Jam frontman), then Style Council for that beautiful song titled, EVER CHANGING MOODS. Another classic song!

The storm only seemed to abate and the rocking stop, when he got off to go to work on dry land. I was tantalizingly close to shore and yet the waters below were shark infested and I was never a great lover of deep water. Others would boat out to me and liven up my months, I would be allowed to go ashore with them for a while.

INFJs if you are anything like me, will like chains and I have a nice chain recently built between old and new links, it goes like this.

My first job in this town was in a restaurant by the beach. Both myself and the other young lady had started at the same time and were both replacing the leaving staff. Fortunately for me, my new work companion was an experienced waitress and showed me the ropes. Living as she did, in another town some 20 kms away, the cost of the taxi home night time cancelled out the earnings of the day!

So, she stayed in our spare room and as such, we got to know each other much more closely. As you do sometimes with work companions, your joint circumstances see you become partners in crime, so to speak. And we really did have much fun at our work, in spite of the incredibly hard slog that it was. She made it tolerable for me.

It was with sadness that she moved on as yes, our conditions were dire indeed, so I could not blame her. But I missed her company at work tremendously. At exactly half my age, I could have easily been her mother but she was such a good work companion and so very friendly, that my age disappeared completely!

My partner had been taxi driving since we came here and has picked up rather a lot of English clients over the years. Many times he has lined me up with these to do translation jobs for them and so it was in this case. An English lady who needed to get to see the doctor and did not speak Spanish. My partner gave her my number and I met with her to accompany her to the said appointment!

She was highly complimentary about my partner and his services and how she always phoned him. Now that was certainly not the first time that my fellow countrymen and women had said very similar things. It hit me there and then, right between the eyes. My mirage goes out everyday and you see me, super imposed on him.

I have been teaching him necessary phrases and how to say them. I have been teaching him how to work with my folk. As his usual belligerent Spanish self, they would ALL send him to HELL. I have done my job so well, that I have a town full of country folk of mine, who have have fallen in love with my NARCISSIST.

The middle-age female divorcees, offer themselves to him and proposition him. How a male gets so offended by a wanting woman, hey? They hate that? I choose when and with whom, remember? 

I FELT really niggled, I did. I thought yeah, if I told you the truth, you would actually be hard pushed to believe me, wouldn´t you? Having known him and not me for a number of years. I am going to be the VILLAIN OF THE PEACE as always!

It was something she said, I FELT it and I saw it in her eyes. She had suffered at the hands of a NARCISSIST and she knew that she had suffered, oh, yes. She had divorced to suffer no more! She did not KNOW that she was with a NARCISSIST though. I asked her to look at my blog and I took a chance on her.

We met again and this time, I began to open up and so it is that unwittingly, my daytime Prince Charming has brought this truly lovely, compassionate, considerate, empathetic, sympathetic, kind, generous, sincere, understanding lady into my life. And today she is now my confidante. What about that? I have started big time emptying out my dark ghouls and demons and I begin to see clearer every day.

The spell is broken. The fairy tale has ended! No, they did not live happily ever after, they really did not and why? Because he did not know how to be happy, no one taught him how to be happy, how to be nice. No, his guide (his father) only SHOWED him ugly things. B*****D!!!! A NARCISSIST too!

On a recent meeting with Ms. C, we went to a different café and low and behold, the young lady who came to attend us, was none other than my dear friend and work companion from some nearly eight years ago. It was a joyful reunion and as we enjoyed the atmosphere of this bar, which my friend and her partner were now running, we went back again this week for a couple of cocktails and had a lovely interlude.

The nibbles that keep finding their way to the table were all so different and new to me, that the whole experience was so positive and uplifting that I made the suggestion that we go and have lunch there tomorrow to celebrate my partner´s retirement as he has not been in there as yet. I hope that Ms. C will be coming too. 

A contact on dry land. Wow!! I have met another person who can deal with truth and sincerity, no taboos. Man-kind is what he is and she has known more bad than good too. But she can laugh as I can at our troubles. We can both give release to much pent up emotions through laughter and we did laugh so much in our last get together, that she FEELS therapeutic indeed.

I FEEL that even as we know more of each other, we can say more to each other. It is a friendship in its infancy but it is growing in depth and of course, the trust is there. That which I do not have with my partner. To be able to give voice to ugly truths is to expose them to the light of day. You have shared them and they will no longer be just your burden.

The more times you talk about these demons and ghouls, the less powerful they become. The dark shadows are lifting, the light of day is now promising to flood into my today. I want that positive tide of light and positivity to buoy me up and help me find the strength to get the anchor pulled up which holds me still in my tracks. And then the strength both mental and physical, to wrench the tiller from his hands and take charge of my destiny!

I have come all this way with him and I am prepared to go all the way back with him to HIS dry land. It was never mine. The boat is my vehicle, he is not a sailor. I drop him off on dry land and I sail off to charter a new course. Being African at heart, I could not go south with an empty boat, now could I?

I am going now to enjoy these few hours left to me but I will of course continue with my blog and finish my review of my first book ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN and I do have my second book ON THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT to review as well. So, it is not like I have run out of things to say as yet.

Thank you for listening I shall say today. I cannot think of any of the things that I should be thinking of. I cannot even distract myself. I am in SUSPENSION!!!!

Do you know the FEELING of PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSION? Please let me know if you do! Until the next post, happy learning!

I leave you with links to my book on Amazon.com: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Paperback version and ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN e-book version

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MISPLACED FAITH! ARE YOU MISPLACING YOUR FAITH?

HOW AND WHERE CAN WE PLACE OUR FAITH AS HUMAN BEINGS? Post No.51 (An 11 minute read) 

Now if that is not a loaded question, I do not know what is? FAITH!! What is it to have FAITH? In what can we have FAITH? Where do we place our FAITH? Why do we need FAITH at all?

WHAT IS MY WEATHER DOING TODAY? COOL NORTH WINDS BLOWING THE PALM TREES!

Chapter forty-eight of my first book ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, is titled MISPLACED FAITH! We were up to our necks in the COVID-19 pandemic and the death tolls world wide had to be lived to be believed. What were our leaders really about? What were these absurd decisions that they were making for us all to live by?

Here are links to my first book for you: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN e-book and ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Paperback

The lead taken in China by their President Xi Jinping, was without doubt the most spectacular lead of the whole world. Their determination to prevent the massive spread of this virus, saw them extending their period of confined/restricted living conditions way beyond other nations.

The Chinese were covering up, the world was saying! How come we are all suffering such a dramatic spread and loss of life when they are not? "90 million tests carried out in four days!!!!!!!" said the Chinese health minister early on in the pandemic! The Chinese logistical capacity to react on a massive scale was exemplary indeed!

The rest of the world just looked on in amazement and disbelief. The Chinese leader placed his FAITH in his scientists, the seekers of the truth of all things! His military forces acting as human power tools to multiply the helping hands. The human discipline of the vast majority had me wish to be in China right then. Quite the safest place to be at that moment in time!!

The citizens of America had placed their FAITH in Donald Trump to lead them as a nation. But having led them a right merry dance, contract COVID-19 himself, fly in the face of the American experts and then kick off a whole run of mixed messages, the presidential elections went ahead and NO, no one wanted to continue placing their FAITH in him, did they?

Another failed leader who walks away from his disaster and passes a very ugly buck to the incoming leader. So, by obligation, the American citizens now have to place their rather shaky FAITH in Joe Biden. We place our FAITH in our leaders until they show us that we were wrong to do so. We then withdraw our FAITH and place it elsewhere!

But of course there are those nations who do not really ever have any FAITH in their leaders. No, they can see that this leader is just like the one before and so they are obliged to pay lip-service and profess their FAITH in their leader without actually having any genuine FAITH in that male/those males!

If you cannot place your FAITH in your leaders on the ground, well, where do you then look? The sky is the limit, as we say! Take your pick from those up in the sky!!! There are plenty of them to choose from! I am referring of course, to the invisible suppliers of HOPE! There are those (I not being one of them), who will place their FAITH in an invisible, unknown being??????!!!!!!

By placing your FAITH in something that is in fact invisible/non-existent, you can continue BELIEVING that you still have reason to HOPE. You no longer BELIEVE in MAN-KIND and HIS leadership. You have withdrawn your FAITH in HIS leadership and as such, HE no longer provides you with any HOPE!

In order to keep wanting to face another day in this ugly MAN-MADE world of MAN-KIND´S design, we must carry the HOPE that life can be more than this. I just have to continue to BELIEVE that I have placed my FAITH in the right place! There lays my HOPE! An invisible being will be hard pushed to let you down, will they not?

Yes, we all need FAITH, BELIEF and HOPE, without those, what do we live for! Why though, are so many in this world prepared to believe in something that has no real evidence to support its very existence? Why do so many believe that there will be a better life after this hideous life that we have been forced to live as human beings?

Born to suffer as subjugates to MAN-KIND. HE who right at the beginning of the bible, in the very first chapter if you please, laid down the instruction for Adam to go forth and create more in HIS LIKENESS. In other words, "GO BREED MORE USELESS TOOLS TO DO MY BIDDING WITH!" The day we leave this world, the gates of heaven open up to us and our days of pain and suffering will be over!!!

WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP! I have been prepared to live and let live always but I cannot either agree or condone such foolish, foolish, blind FAITH, BELIEF and HOPE. I can understand that the average mind has no power to think and reason for itself. That is why we are still living as the subjugates of MAN-KIND!

MAN-KIND is our pending issue. There would be HOPE for all if MAN-KIND were not our leaders!

What I could not believe was how non-sensical all of our religious celebrations were really. I examine this in more detail and the emotional attachments that we all have to our own homes at these particular times of coming together to celebrate in unison! But we had a lethal virus all over the world. Could we not put these mass celebrations on hold just for this year?

NO, was the answer to that and the deaths from COVID-19 that occurred as a direct result of get togethers around religious dates and festivals was completely SENSELESS. These folk could not give those days a miss even though that meant taking a risk, playing with their lives and their family´s lives!

We saw in Europe the deaths after Easter, summer holidays, Halloween, Christmas, New Year and the King´s Day!!! Could no one stay home just for one year? Could we really not put REAL human life before lip-service and overt display of expenditure and excess, in the name of an almighty invisible being who has NEVER existed in REALITY!!!!! MADNESS! IGNORANT HUMAN MADNESS!

WHY? Because NO ONE, NOWHERE on the planet Earth BELIEVES in MAN-KIND, we have long since lost our FAITH in MAN-KIND and we have long since lost any REAL HOPE of MAN-KIND ever being any different. We are all clutching at invisible straws instead of working out how we get MAN-KIND out of leadership first and then HOPEFULLY, out of this world altogether!

Any who can make headway on that path, will no doubt find the BELIEF in your leadership growing. As you achieve results, the FAITH in your leadership will grow too. And of course, HOPE is born off BELIEF and WELL PLACED FAITH!

We need to move MAN-KIND out of our path in order to see a ray of light that may spell HOPE on the horizon! And it was women (of course), who have helped my nation of Gran Bretaña, come out from under the shadows of Roman catholicism and almost totally now in 2023. Education and learning has had us as a nation, question all things INVISIBLE and see that NO, we do not need to believe in the INVISIBLE.

No, we are not ignorant fools. That is what happens when education becomes wide spread in a nation, they begin to question MAN-KIND! MAN-KIND and all of HIS doings through time. There is no scientific evidence to support the existence of any gods, only those that lived on earth, MAN-KIND! And we have some very mixed messages about those who did ACTUALLY live on earth, do we not?

The two-headed monster, who thinks always with the lower of the two heads!!! A prime example of that was the late King Henry VIII, who for passionate desire for a protestant woman, actually told the Pope of Rome (head of the catholic church), that he did not give a hoot for his patronage and was going to divorce his catholic wife Queen Catalina and marry Anne Boleyn! TAKE THAT!

It marked the beginning of the end of the catholic domination and indoctrination in main land Britain. King Henry VIII had all the catholic buildings, churches, monasteries and abbey´s taken down and the catholic voices of Rome, were struck off as clergymen! Great move. Take it ALL down and it will become so invisible as to be forgotten.

On Henry´s death, it was his daughter born to his first wife Queen Catalina, who inherited his throne and reintroduced catholicism and persecuted the christians. It was a very bloody reign. Fortunately she died relatively young and childless!

Her half-sister Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Queen Anne Boleyn, became Queen Elizabeth I and it was she, who was to strike the middle road and make religious belief a personal choice. No rights and wrongs, no persecution, no indoctrination, freedom of choice!!

Like mother, like daughter! This is what has allowed the British female to move further towards emancipation from MAN-KIND than all other nations excepting the Scandinavian countries! We are over 450 years on from that point now and that is all forgotten about. Resigned to the HIS-STORY books.

Queen Elizabeth I died childless too and passed the throne of England to her cousin Queen Mary of Scotland´s son James. Who became King James VI of Scotland and King James I of England. He was one of our homosexual kings and was a very learned man. It was he who had the bible translated into English and it is the King James I version of the bible that is still predominantly used in Gran Bretaña!

A statistical round up in the UK, showed that just 20% of the population consider themselves Christian. The debate on removal of religious influence in national law is pending. There are less believers in god in my birth nation every year! That is progress! On the other hand, Islam is gaining support amongst the younger generations, who have nothing to believe in on earth!

The same goes with Hindu and Sikh folk. The Jewish community stays unchanged in their steadfastness to their FAITH.

Education opens our eyes to our own possibilities. We build FAITH in ourselves and our ability to make our way through life. We build the BELIEF that if we can develop some skills and amass some knowledge, then we will be able to work for a living and so, survive as a person independently! That at least is our HOPE.

WE ALL HOPE TO BECOME OUR `OWN´ BOSS, and make our own decisions without having to ask for MAN-KIND´s help! Which will always have a long list of conditions attached. WATCH OUT!

Do you BELIEVE in yourself? Do you have FAITH in yourself? Do you see HOPE for you and yours? What do you believe in ? What do you have FAITH in? Have you got any HOPE of anything better than now?

I have none of any right now. I have no FAITH, BELIEF or HOPE in myself or anyone I know personally. I have no FAITH, BELIEF or HOPE in anything that I have close around me!

But I will never stop envisioning a world without MAN-KIND and HIS false gods on high and HE, HIS own god on Earth, ruling over us all.

Thank you for reading today. I would enjoy hearing your thoughts. There is a comment box below, or why not send me your e-mail via the contact box (right-hand panel), there is also a follow tab if you would like to keep up to speed!

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UNDERSTANDING SILENCE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

SILENCE IS GOLDEN OR SO THEY SAY! AND SO IT IS! ALL THINGS IN THE RIGHT TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE THOUGH!! Post No.50 (A 10 minute read) 

What does total silence mean? I could usually say that silence equals a blissful atmosphere for following my trains of thought. I enjoy silence. I really do. At home, I am silently thinking solidly or I am very noisily listening and singing to my favourite music! I do not fear silence but this new silence really has played on my mind, so much so, that I am writing this post today instead of what I had thought to write today.

The internet is an incredible space and a gift to us all without a doubt. But if quality communication is so very, very difficult to find on the ground, in person, what chances do we really have of being able to make quality communication via the internet with persons unknown?

That said, having systematically failed to find any with whom I could share quality communication in `REAL LIFE´, I too took the plunge and dived into the unknown quantity that is the internet ocean. I had thrown my beautiful book out to deep sea and had done so because there were none on dry land who would even give me the time of day!

A very good morning to EACH and EVERYONE who is looking my way today for the first time or once more. I share with you the dawning day that I have here in Almería, Spain. We are expecting maximum temperatures of 18ºC and clear sunny skies today, so I must get some washing done!

A SUNNY DAY OUTSIDE, WHAT ABOUT INSIDE THOUGH?

The sad reality of INFJ life, quite probably the reason for the TURBULENT status which is definitely a direct result of this permanent outright rejection and solid refusal to listen to my voice. It was in mid-November 2022, that I discovered for the first time that I had an official collective to belong to, the rare INFJ type.

Well, like I did not know that I was an `ODD ONE OUT´, `AN OUTCAST´, always living ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN (the title of my first book). So, to be vindicated and know that I was an INFJ ADVOCATE type, was so uplifting. YES, YES, YES, YES, YES and YES, it is I who have all the reasoning correct!

That knowledge gave me a new boost to my destroyed morale and I dived into this blogspot. I did not want to spend my days looking at foolish two word comments and lines of hieroglyphs, so social networks were never going to be for me. I want and need, depth in everything that I do.

Bearing in mind that my book now lies deep on the ocean bed (sounds comfy), I suppose it is not unreasonable to expect it to be hard to find. But then my book is written for those who will understand it. Who might they be? Others like me, which could mean, other INFJs. Not exclusively, not at all, but those who can care beyond themselves.

That in itself, is one of the character traits that defines an INFJ type. I am totally in-tuned to giving, is that owing to my constant service of others and never being receiver/beneficiary myself? I do not expect anything from anyone anymore. I no longer have expectations of anyone or anything that is connected to the man-made world!

MY PURPOSE!

All blogs are supposed to serve a purpose of some sort say the restrictive boundaries of man-kind! What purpose is mine serving to YOU the readers and what purpose is it serving for ME, the author?

My purpose was to bring awareness to my first book ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN and hopefully be able to open discussion with other folk who like me, REALLY CARE about the planet earth and the righteous and worthy who live upon it!

My own life experiences are my only guide. I have only deaf ears around me and so, verbally I have no path. Enjoying writing as I do and wanting to explore with others, I needed a larger space in which to move.

Since the 11th November 2022 when I posted my very first blog, I have had right to this minute, 1058 views to my blog. That is pleasing to me and they have come from twenty-two different countries and those from the five continents. That is just so wonderful to me. That shows what the internet can do. We can find maybe what we are looking for but are now searching much further afield.

Having looked at a good number of blogs myself, I see that the usual material is of a one off nature. Therein the similarity and difference at the same time of my blog. This phase of my blog is a one off, it is all about one thing. MY BOOK - ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, as an INFJ female who is wanting to change this world.

These are the links to my book on Amazon: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN e-book and ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Paperback

But of course, changing the world is a complex ambition which cannot be explored in any detail in just the one post! Even my own book, though I did try to write in a straightforward manner that ALL would be able to read, I FELT could maybe need some interpretations of it own. My trains of thought are rambling in a completely different direction to the vast majority.

No surprise there really. I am INFJ, I wish to give, not take! There the greatest difference of all!

In spite of those 1058 views, posts read are just 415. So, what in fact the other 643 views were, I really do not understand! What I FEEL I can understand maybe, is that if you get on to my blog, if you have found it somehow, because yes, I do not know how I am found really, that the last post posted, is the one that will be on view.

This has been a continuous thread since its initiation and continues to be. I am going to try and encourage ALL and ANY of my readers, whether this is the first post that you have read so far, or whether you have looked my way before, to start at the beginning and try FOLLOWING my trains of thought.

To come in mid-way of anything, is maybe to be somewhat confused as to what you are actually reading and so, I will talk you briefly through the first few posts and see if that is not why there are none following along with my trains of thought.

THE POSTS PUBLISHED SO FAR:

Beginning the 11th November 2022. I wrote 32 posts in 2022, which are listed like so:

NOV 6 - 13 (2)  Post No.1 (A 7 minute read) Published 11th Nov 2022 - WELCOME TO THE GILLIAN METCALFE ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN CONTACT LINE. This is an introduction to myself and my fledgling career as a writer. Something of my own hopes and fears with regards to my own outlook for the future and why I began this blogspot.

NOV 6 -13 (2)  Post No.2 (A 20 minute read) Published 12th Nov 2022 - AN ADVOCATE INFJ-T REVEALED IN NUMBERS! WELL MET FELLOW INFJs! THE VITAL STATISTICS! As the post title suggests, in this one I talk about my own INFJ qualities revealing my percentages and put my new-known INFJ status under the spotlight and see how in fact, that little but oh, so crucial piece of information, was one that had been missing always. My vindication of WHO and HOW I am!

NOV 13 - 20 (4)  Post No.3 (A 31 minute read) Published 13th Nov 2022 - WHAT INSPIRED ME TO BEGIN BOOK WRITING? WHERE WAS THE CATALYST? In this post I talk about just that. We had COVID-19 kicking off and confinement to home thrust upon us. Desperation, fear, frustration, depression, all of these negative sensations added to those that were already weighing me down and a trip to Córdoba and the old ruined Ummayad city of Medina Azahara, which got the wheels of my brain moving again!

NOV 13 - 20 (4)  Post No.4  (A 13 minute read) Published 14th Nov 2022 - TO WHOM DO I DEDICATE MY BOOK? CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE! In this post I talk about the dedication in my book and why I chose to dedicate it in that way and mention those who I did. We can be influenced by many and much that we encounter through our lives and I talk here of those without whom, I really would not have known much happiness in my life!

NOV 13 - 20 (4)  Post No.5  (A 15 minute read) Published 16th Nov 2022 - YOUR FELLOW INFJ-T INTRODUCES YOU TO HER BOOK! TAKE A LOOK! And yes, just that, I start introducing my book and welcoming you inside it and open my trains of thought for you to browse, peruse and hopefully enjoy and also wish to share your thoughts and views with me.

NOV 13 -20 (4)  Post No.6  (A 15 minute read) Published 18th Nov 2022 - A VERY DEEP AND MEANINGFUL PROLOGUE! ALL THE WAY FROM THE SAHARA DESERT! I had always had the ambition to travel in the Sahara Desert and I have had that beautiful privilege as you will find out reading through my book, blog or both. I had met a Tuareg elder somewhere in Sahara terrain and it was he who said this to me. "TO KNOW THE TRUTH, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE TRUTH, ONLY THERE DOES THE TRUTH LIE!"

I have never forgotten those words and they run across the top of my blog home page. I have spent my entire life to date, trying to find the truth of all things. The truth is not always pleasant, no, it can be down right hideous in TRUTH, but if that is so and we can recognize that, then can we not also recognize the need to change that truth to a better truth that we could all embrace.

I ask you ALL, each and every reader who reads this post, please try and start at the beginning and catch up. And please do FEEL welcome to make comments or send me your e-mail if you prefer via the contact box at the top right side of the opening page, there is a follow tab too.

I have also got the Google Translator tool at the top left of the page, for any who would prefer to translate to another language. I wonder when that day will be that my book and blog silence will be broken. Who will be the first to comment? Fifty posts on, that question is still unanswered. 1058 views out of those, 414 reads, or at least that is my interpretation of the statistics that I have available.

I have no boundaries and no taboos. But I am 100% HUMANUS MODERNUS though! Could you consider yourself as a member of the new HUMANUS MODERNUS????

Thank you for reading and I do hope that some will find something to comment on along the way! It IS a FREE world and I am all for FREEDOM of thought and choice of paths to follow.

Have a great day ALL of you wherever you may be in the world, be thinking about what WE CAN DO to make this a better world! Happy learning and thinking!

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