circles and spirals

Years ago I learnt a simple lesson in the way a shaman looks at life, I do not recall which book it was in, but the basic concept is that  life feels like a big circle most of the time, we feel like we are forever going around and around and never quite getting anywhere.  And too be honest, if seen from a particular point of view it will indeed look that way.  However a far more interesting way to look at life is more like a spiral staircase.  When seen from above it looks exactly like the circle, and feels like no progression is made.  However if looked at from the side we can clearly see how we have progressed and advanced in our lives.  The situations that we enter into may feel the same, and even have a sense of familiarity, but we, as spirits traveling through this life have moved on, have gained more knowledge and wisdom and are able to deal with these challenges, which before may of brought us down.
Why is it that this evening I write about this.  Because parts of my life have recently been reopened which I thought were long gone in the past.  I will soon be starting a job in a place that I loved, also a shaman friend has re-entered my life, giving me pause to think about the past and how much I have changed since then.  So in some ways I might indeed feel like I am taking a few steps backwards, almost walking in a circle, however the experience of life over the last 5 years have changed me drastically from that person and how I  look upon these opportunities in my life has changed.

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The extension on the extension

Well, it seems that there has been a change of circumstances in work and they have offered me an extension on my job by 4 months, with the possibility of more.  The drawback is that it will be in Customer Services, not Tech Support.  However we will occasionally take tech calls which will keep us in the loop as it were.  So here’s to staying at Virgin media, and to keeping my staff package a bit longer than I thought I would of.

woohooo……weight loss update extreme!!!!

Well last week the damn scales in tesco Llansamlet was not working, so it was no update at all.  Then Thursday just gone (9/10/7), I was in tesco, Swansea and thought I might as well take the opportunity to weigh myself and find out the bad news, so with trepidation I took all my jewellry off and stood upon the dull black foot plate.  30 seconds later I read the numbers on the paper ticket, and smile, 22st 3.5lb, wow, I had lost the weight that I had put on and then lost a bit more too boot.

So today as an experiment to check if there was any varience between the scales in Swansea and the scales in Llansamlet I weighted in again, and OMG, I was even lighter than I was on thursday, 22st 1.1lb, so either I lost weight since Thursday of a dramatic ammount, or, more likely there is some varience between the two scales.

SO 1.1lb to go before I fall within the realms of 21st something, Way to go Gareth, pat on the back for me.