Unified Theory to make mankind one

These are supposedly from Dalai Lama. It was a chain letter but I edited out the preomises and threats bits and am making it available to whoever will visit the blog...





I N S T R U C T I O N S
F O R
L I F E

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three R’s:

+ Respect for self,
+ Respect for others and
+ Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a

wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate

steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and

think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for

your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the

current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your

love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Loss of a dear friend

i mourn young polite fella in his early 40s.
a man who never raised his voice
whom i could swear never raised argument with anyone
ever so optimistic,
smiling politely as he went about his business
ever so busy he hardly could find time to break for a roll
sunday, monday, holiday...
were all the same for Jo, when it came to work

woodworking was his hobby, occupation, pastime, employment
he was hardest worker, than anybody or anything around Msasani--
except, perhaps the tirdo termites,
termites so aggressive
they even attempt to eat PVC pipes!
machines would start grrrrrrrring early on during the day,
untill dusk when birds are taking to roost

he never turned any job down
all in good spirit
at any time t he had a score pending
most of them for little more than free
one wonders why one would set out
towards self-denial like this fella
if money was in way related to amount of toil
he woulda been a billionaire

i'm sure he was nowhere near a million
coz the end met him while worrying
on where to raise a hundred dollars
to pay for rented quarters he n family lived
yes, one wonders why one would set out
towards self-denial like this fella

could explain something about
scott, magellan, vasco dagama,
livingstone, mungo park and a score others
left their comfortable homes to explore the seas
some of them never to return home
likely these are made of same chemical compound
that this fella who passed on was made of
that we other mortals arent

so much self-induced slavery
curiously it would seem as if
he enjoyed seeing others around him eat his fruits
he so much laboured for
while he himself took peelings, if anything
otherwise how do you explain
a man sooo thin ever shabby embedded
in a family of well fed well dressed

he shunned public, with no reason to
being handsome and fit as he was
at least up till being bedridden
some weeks before giving it up
why why why would a grown man
succumb to readily curable malaria
just coz body weight couldnt stand it

although i ain't much of a poet
i felt i should put this up for the world
and moral is your family n friends whatever
but for chrissake don't lead slow suicidal life while doing it
mind your health so those individuals
you toil so much for
shall continue seeing you around for many days still

bye jo, friend, now in heaven--wonder if you read blogs up there...
RIP