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Every girl dreams of the perfect man, spectacular wedding and wonderful home with beautiful children. I had seen the not so perfect sides of love however; there are single mothers because the perfect man didn’t stay long enough to catch just a glimpse of his offspring. I did not expect much in the love arena until I met him who swept me off my feet. Surely he had to be an exception. He could not possibly have been lying to me. My heart was quickly lost to love and soon my mind would follow. I could not picture a more perfect life without him.

To him went my heart, mind and life. Then he made his ex pregnant. There was of cause good explanation to all this, a moment of madness when libido got the better of him. She moved in with him, this too was nicely explained to a very understanding love stricken heart and mind. But with time even the love stricken expects action to follow words. Every woman has a pride and self-worth beyond which no compromise can be made. But how do you disentangle yourself when you have given your heart, mind and life.

A roller coaster ride, that no one can prepare you for, begins and takes you to heights you never imagined. Emotional ups and downs as one tries to rediscover that thing which we call me. Loneliness becomes a song until the day you choose to let go of the pain and embrace freedom, love and laughter again. It’s never easy to start anew from a relationship no matter how short. Rediscovery is exciting yet tiring, exhilarating yet exhausting. Exceptions are there but the ordinary far outweighs them.
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If life were a play
Write and direct i would
Never play the victim

If life were a song
Loudest and longest I would sing
The happy notes and verses

If life were a painting
Boldest and brightest I would paint
The smiles and laugh lines

If life were a dance
Longest and gracefully I would girate
To the beat in my heart

If life were a drum
Hardest and loudest I would play
The rhythm that says
I will do it over and over
Till i get it right]]> Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:05:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/247953 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/241905
LIFE

If life were a play
Write and direct i would
Never play the victim

If life were a song
Loudest and longest I would sing
The happy notes and verses

If life were a painting
Boldest and brightest I would paint
The smiles and laugh lines

If life were a dance
Longest and gracefully I would girate
To the beat in my heart

If life were a drum
Hardest and loudest I would play
The rhythm that says
I will do it over and over
Till i get it right

]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:31:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/241905 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/215423 ]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:02:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/215423 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/204705
Lest time should run out and i die nowhere!]]> Tue, 15 May 2007 11:06:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/204705 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/184523 I could say it a thousand times over
Yet still feel the same
I miss you my love

I love you
This I want to say
For as long as I live
My lifesong I want to make it
A lifetime I want to spend with you


]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:51:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/184523 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/179969 Do it because you really want to
Breath like it’s your very last
Laugh as if you never will again
And live today because
Tomorrow is never promised
]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:23:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/179969 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/176911 grow wise
enjoy life
at the end
look back and say
what a life,
well lived
time well spent]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:35:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/176911 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/171427 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:30:00 EDT http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/171427 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/163223 By just looking at me
You cannot tel
You will never know

I wish you knew
By just shaking my hand
Laughing with me
You will not get it

I wish I could tell
That lovely as I am
That one time
Gave it to me

I wish I could tell
Happy as I am
Living life to the full
You dare not touch me

I wish I could tell you
I have HIV
Lest you shun me
I wish, I wish, I wish]]> Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:22:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/163223 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/160755 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:21:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/160755 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/158731 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:56:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/158731 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/153241 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:02:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/153241 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/101475 Enjoy the lap you are at, for all I know you wont have another chance to pass through that way, life is after all ONE CHANCE!!!! and all we have been given is TODAY! TOMMOROW IS BUT A PROMISE!!!]]> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:15:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/101475 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/86183 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:33:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/86183 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/86001
We can change the world starting with ourselves. Not only that each one of us doing our little bit in our small world contributes to the bigger picture and bigger change. So if at any moment you feel small, insignificant and that what you doing is not much. Remeber IT IS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT! I read somewhere have forgotten the name of the author that the saying goes something like this: If you consider yourself too small, imagine sharing a bed with a mosquito.
THINK yourself big , SEE yourself big and you are big!!! Its all in the mind...]]> Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:53:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/86001 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/85585
Yet again I have met many a man alive yet buried in his failure. Never mustering enough courage to retrace his footsteps back to where he fell from and start again. At least he would know one way of how not to do it. Inventions, books, great poetry and great men die never to be read, seen and enjoyed all because a young lad failed with his first attempt and vowed never to fail again.

I have seen men race against time yet never beating it. Life at best is when one sits back and enjoys the ride no matter how slow. Enjoy the ride you may never get there but still the ride to wherever you end up would have been fun. Better still get there and the ride was all worth it and fun at the same time.

Success does not come but to the persistent and life is about continuing to move even when each step seems to land you in the same position as the previous. It is tiny droplets of rain that fill up the dam. Change in great leaps and bounds would be traumatic. It is truly the little things that count. As they say Rome was not built in a day. Faith in the little steps though small they one day will amount to great men, great books, history made, lives touched and changed.

It is many people that seek big things yet the little acts of kindness are what makes a great man and truly bring results. A smile that costs nothing may just be what one needs; giving it costs nothing yet many a time we want to give the big gift, the expensive, flashy and fabulous. The small priceless hug, kiss or just a pat in the back may be all that convinces me of my significance to you.
]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:44:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/85585 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/85337 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:18:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/85337 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/84605 people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work
to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else’s goals." - Brian Tracy

To understand how to realise our goals, we need to know that there are three main types of goals. Winning an Olympic gold medal is an achievement goal. It relies on many factors outside of your control. You may run a great time, but there may be someone else present who runs faster than you. Achievement goals are what inspire us. They are part of the grand vision.

Then there are performance goals. For a sprinter, this could be running a 100-metre race in under 10 seconds. These kinds of goals are more independent of external conditions. They are also an important measure of our progress.

Finally, there are action goals. These are almost entirely within our control. They are simply the physical actions you take to achieve your performance or achievement goals. For an Olympic athlete, this may include training for six hours a day, reading a book on sport psychology and eating a certain diet.

The most important kinds of goals are action goals because if you take care of the action, the performance and achievement will come naturally. The more you do, the more you will achieve. Make sure that every day, you are doing something that gets you closer to the achievement of your great big hair-raising goal.
WWW.LIFEBUILD.COM]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:24:00 EST http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/84605 -26.1666667 27.9166667-26.166666727.9166667 http://mandlo.tigblog.org/post/83517
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental

To reach out for another is to risk involvement

To expose feelings it to risk exposing your true self

To place your ideas, our dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss

To love is to risk not being loved in return

To live is to risk dying

To hope is to risk despair

To try is to risk failure

But risk must be taken

Because the greatest hazard is to risk nothing

The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing

They may avoid suffering and sorrow

But they cannot learn, feel, change, grow,love or live

Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves,

They have forfeited their freedom

Only a person who risks if free

Hey guys as you make your resolutions for 2007. Be gratefull for all the good and bad that 2006 had for you it made for a wonderful year and God causes all things to work together for GOOD. And remember the man(woman) who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. More RISKS to be taken in 2007 and you will have a bigger, greater more fulfilling life. God bless you more than you can imagine and make your life in 2007 the BEST it could ever be.

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