Crossplanet

On the day of Thanksgiving, I woke up with this terrible news about shootings in Mumbai. What is this world where extremists, in the name of some God or for some foolish reason, start shooting at innocent people?

Thanksgiving might be an american tradition, but it could be a nice thing to get the spirit of it back and extend it to the whole world. Would it be too much to ask to have only one day a year to stop and think about the people we could thank for what they gave us?

I could say thank you to Annie for the support she gave me in this last year, thank you to Anne who helped to find my home, thank you to Olivier who simply hugged me when I needed it most, thank you to Benoit and Théodore who do their best to guide me in my new profession, thank you to Marinella and Marco who helped so much when I fell down the roof last summer, and so many others I can't name them all, friends or neighbours or parents, who make my life so beautiful.

From Wikipedia

broken heart (or heartbreak) is a common expression used to describe the intense emotional pain or suffering one feels after losing a loved one, through death, divorce, moving, being dumped, or other means. It is an extremely old and widespread metaphor, dating to at least the Indian Ramayana writings (400 BC - 200 AD).

"...extremely old and widespread metaphor...", I love this image, that feeling of being neither alone, neither the first one.

The Vatican has officially forgiven John Lennon for having declared that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ (the story is slightly different but that was the interpretation). It took only 40 years to get there! Talk about love!

(according to according to various religions and spiritual philosophies).

I just need some joke today.

TAOISM: Shit happens.
CONFUCIANISM: Confucius say, "Shit happens".
ZEN: (What is the sound of shit happening?)
JESUITISM: If shit happens and when nobody is watching, is it really shit?
ISLAM: Shit happens if it is the will of Allah.
COMMUNISM. Equal shit happens to all people.
CATHOLICISM: Shit happens because you are bad.
PSYCHOANALYSIS: Shit happens because of your toilet training.
JUDAISM: Why does shit always happen to US?
MYSTICISM: What weird shit!
AGNOSTICISM: What is this shit?
ATHEISM: I don't believe this shit!
NIHILISM: Who needs this shit?
QUAKER: Let's not fight over this shit.
NEWAGE: Visualize shit not happening.
EXISTENTIALISM: Shit doesn't happen; shit is.
BUDDHISM: Shit happens, but pay no mind.
HINDUISM: This shit has happened before.
THEOSOPHY: You don't know half of the shit that happens.
STOICISM: This shit is good for me.
RASTAFARIANISM: Let's smoke this shit.
RED CROSS: Shit happens - send money.

...Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pema Chodron

Our real work in life is to awaken, to let the things that come into our circle awaken us. The only way to achieve this is to open ourselves, to be curious and to develop some sort of sympathy for whatever happen to us, in order to know its true nature and learn about it.
Anyway, it will stay around us till we learn our lesson. We can break our marriage, quit our job, frequent only places where they worship us, manipulate our world to flatten all difficulties, but the same old demons will appear again and again, till we learn our lesson, the lesson they came to teach us.

Pema Chodron