Spliced to the MAX

During the last few weeks I have been doing a lot of thinking (yes I am capable of doing it). Thinking about life, purpose and all those nice things we always philosophize about. Why are here… What was the purpose for our design and creation? Why me… Why you dear reader...

I attended a course the last couple of days. This specific course was about a program called Career Direct. It tests your personality, values, interests, and skills. Yes … I know there is a million programs out there that claims to do exactly that but never work, but this one is different. I’ve spent thousands of rands on tests like this one and never agreed with the outcome, but somehow this one was spot on. With this I don’t mean it had a couple of truths in it that captured my interest. Every word it said about me was true! There was not 1 thing not true!!!!! Fluke you might think. I beg to differ. I’ve spoken to countless people that claim the same thing as me. This test is actually accurate. And the best of all is that it’s not expensive at all!!! Some of these tests cost up to R1500.00 and when you’ve finished the test they hand you a two page load of hogwash!!! This test on the other hand gives you a 32page report. It list everything I said on top and then your strengths and weaknesses in your personality, as well as possible careers that will be suited for you. But enough about that. Post me if you want more info. The topic of today is not the test, but the realization that I once again had during my time in the course I attended. Why were we created? Why was there a need for me and you as a person? Or more directly, what is our purpose for living?

A while ago I watched a move called the sound of thunder. It basically boils down to the fact that something as simple as stepping on and killing a butterfly today affects the future! How you might ask … Well that butterfly will never be able to sit on a flower and pollinate it with another plants pollen. This in turn will cause the plant to not reproduce and form another plant with different attribute and so on and so forth. Who knows… Maybe that butterfly carried the pollen of a plant that contained the last DNA strand needed to create the fungus we now know as penicillin! It’s almost like a chain and everything that exist are links in that chain. If one link is missing, the chain can never be completed! Therefore if you were not born the chain could not have been completed. The purpose question once again arises. Why was this link created in the first place? And that is the all elusive question hanging over each and every living thing! If Benjamin Franklin were never born, we would not have had electricity. If Thomas Jefferson were never born, America would not have had the declaration of independence. If Tim Berners-Lee were not born, I would not be able to post this peace on what we call the internet. And the list goes on… Why then were you born? What is your purpose for being? We were all born for a time such now, into the circumstances we are in and with the personality we have!

WHY ME?

WHY YOU?

It's Monday morning and today I woke up with a song in my heart! We were all created with a hunger for more! There is a void inside of us that drives us throughout our lives to find something to fill it. Some find it in substances such as alcohol, drugs, food, excercise, sleep, television, etc. But some... some find that, this void inside of them can only be filled something not visible to any eye or for that matter understood by many (if any) in its full capacity! They find that this void inside of them can only be fille by LOVE!!!!! not the kind of love a friend of family brings, but the kind of passionate love only your soulmate can bring. The kind of love that changes your whole life in an instant. The kind of love love that is selfless and willing to do anything to ensure that the other person is happy and safe. The kind of love that makes you stare at that special person for hours at end while they sleep. That puts a smile on your face when their name is mentioned or pops up somewhere.

The kind of love that makes life worth living!!!

Unfortunatily not everybody finds that kind of love. And those who do, sometimes don't appreciate it and how lucky we are to have THAT kind of love! A love so powerful that the one party is wiling to lay down his/her life for the other.

May everybody who reads this entry experience love in a way they never felt before. A selfless love. A love that makes life worth LIVING!!!!

It's been ages since my last post and frankly I sometimes wonder if anyone even reads our posts. I see that even Kaerf's blog the comments are few. Anyway whether somebody reads it or not, it's out there!

These last couple of day has been hectic! Been working hard and got sick! But enough of that. A friend and I decided that we are tired of waiting for stuff to happen, so we decided to start producing our own films. Of course we'll start small and work our way up, but we are up for the challange! He's dusy finnishing his first pilot production and I'm in the writing process with mine. Still have a few other video shoots to do for work, so the writing is going slowly at best. BUT we'll get there! I'll keep who ever's intersted up to date.

Kaerf and Christiaan are comming to Cape Town at the end of the week and we prommised ourselves that we have to have a bash. Seeing as we have a huge house to ourselvs, we are most probably going to throw the bash at our house and invite everyone over. Can't wait to see them again!

Today I had to get up at 04:45!!! My wife's boss visited the past week and had to be at the airport at 6 this morning. And I was the lucky winner to have to take her. This ment I arrived at work at 06:00, which is almost an hour before i ussualy get here and to make things worse, there was an accident on the N1 so everybody else was late. I had to wait in my car until 06:50 before the offices opened.

The wonders of being married!!!