Imogen Heap's Wait it Out. Get lost in the moment.

Hug Gala Ball - The Sovereign

We shook it like a polaroid picture... all night. All right!

roughing it.

I am pretty pleased with myself.
I did 3 adventurous things this week:

a) Camp
b) Camp with a couple on my own, and slept in my own tent alone in the pitch black night.
c) Walked/Trekked 20km in 4 hrs

And it feels good.
To top it off, we saw 3 rainbows, 1 wallaby, & 4 wombats within the 3 days we were there - perfect or no?
To say I enjoyed challenging myself is an understatement. As much as it might have been painful at times (not just the walking, but the fear of the pitch darkness and being stuck with a couple), it was a good time and the end result just makes me even more self aware and struck by how much i have grown from the incident.
I'm ready for the next challenge... as soon as I've recovered from this one.

Music: Matchbox20, Mika, Queen
Book: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho - a stunning book, I finished it under the lamp in the tent, in Brett's sandy car, and at the train station with my 26L backpack on.
What is the meaning of madness? We think we know what madness is and it is not us. Someone else is always the mad one, we are normal ones. Perhaps though, the mad ones are the normal ones as they are able to do what they want, they know no boundaries in behaviour or thought, they are unsocialised, unheld by labels: doctors, lawyers, policemen... Most of us normal ones are embittered people who continue to live outside institutions, keeping our madness/depression inside, through high walls created.
An interesting theory, Paulo Coelho has done it again.

the fear you wouldn't fall

Someone gorgeous told me not to be so scared of everything in life. Indeed, fear does take up a large amount of my emotional bank and I'm hoping to cut off its investment.
Fear paralyses, which leads to inaction, which then leads to regret of not doing, or a realisation that I have led my life cowering away underneath the stairs.
So next wednesday, when I will perform my first 'solo' song with the choir, I will NOT be paralysed by fear. I reckon i'm a pretty okay singer and with a choir of about 15-20 backing me, i can't be more supported as a soloist can I?
Not to mention the fact that I will only be performing one verse only:

"Father father, there's no need to escalate.
You see, war is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate.
You know we've got to find a way,
To bring some lovin' here today."

Easy peasy, plus the words would come from the heart.

Yes, I will be all right.

Sometimes, you just want the familiar.