01/02/2024
MY STORY
I played so much at school my teachers didn't believe I would pass my ’o’ level exams. I wasn't interested in school and simply wanted to investigate and poke my nose into many things that were considered not suitable for my age. So in my third year, I led a group of us to learn to smoke ci******es. We refused to give the girls in the class above us so they squealed to the school authorities. We almost got suspended.
When I got into university, I enjoyed law very much but still had a great yen for knowledge beyond books or college degrees so I headed for the library each day after classes to do my assignments and read up whatever needed to be done.
Evenings were meant for relaxation. I leant how to smoke with puffs coming out of my nostrils, I leant how to drive a car and how to party nonstop. I has such a good time that I look at troublesome youths and understand there need to play. Only their play is high class. I had many friends until some of them realised that I passed my exams while they had to resit.
I learnt to reach a compromise in my relationship with play and study. I studied in the afternoon and played till I dropped off to sleep afterwards. I wasn't and I'm still not one to study at night.
Passing exams was important to me but playing was just as important. I learnt to make them accommodate each other. Beyond my basic needs of food, shelter, warmth etc was a need to acquire knowledge and information that weren't of the nature of a college degree.
So it should be in our relationships. We must learn how to built systems that work themselves with our relationships. For me the need to pass exams and have a career was unassailable but the allure of adventure and knowledge had to leant how to sit beside my need for a career. One wasn't more important than the other. Indeed today one complements the other.
What is the core value that needs to complement your need for an abundant relationship? What is your story.
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Relationships are made to make us happy. Sometimes we suppress the values we need to release to make our relationships happy.
So have you wondered what is that value that you have deep in your soul that needs to be cultivated beyond your basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and love?
How do our core values deepen our relationships? How do we reach into our souls to dig them out to enrich our relationship mastery?
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