Whatshot
Through my eyes
Through my eyes
Date: 2016-12-16
As most of you realise, this has not been an easy year financially. Many of us are still trying to recover from the debilitating 2008 crash that wreaked so much havoc with everyone's investments.
However we persevered and we soldiered on and we are so proud of what we have done with our publication, twenty one years on and we are stronger, wiser and reaching much wider than any other community tabloid around.
So often in my columns I say how I have the best job in the world and I am not fibbing. Our lives are filled with scintillating excitement and nonstop fun. We get to attend the best functions, we get to meet awesome people and we are invited to search the deepest, most intimate areas of people's psyche when we write about them.
As we approach the Festive Season, we would like to express our most sincere gratitude to all our advertisers that support our publication. Our appreciation goes out to the kind and generous advertisers who advertise in The Bugle, without you we would not be here.
We also want to extend a big high five to all the people who actively go out and search for The Bugle and read us every weekthank you!
There is also a special place in our heart for all the people that stop us in the street and comment about our columns. Every single one of you are an encouragement and motivation to just get up and do it and do it with love and heart and humility because we truly care about the impact we have on our audience.
"If the only prayer you say in your life is 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
Its true, a lot of us take for granted the good that is already present in our lives. Most of us live in abundance, compared to other African countries, in fact compared to the rest of the world. Yes, there are so many things that we can bitch about, and trust me I have my own personal 'bitch list' but there is also so much to be grateful for. Which brings me to a little poem that always brings me down to earth by Earl Musselman, "The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see. To do the necessary task that was allotted me. Resentment of the vivid glow, I started to complain - when all at once upon the air I heard the blind man's cane."
So, as fun as everything appears to be here in The Bugle, there are also the dark horrible moments of despair, anger and disappointment. I guess that is inevitable, but each day when the sun rises, we are given a choice about how we are going to live that day. Will we allow ourselves to be grateful for what we have and make the most of it Or will we dwell in the nadir of despair, and allow it to pull us into the belief that whatever we might want to happen just can't, or won't
I find that when I allow myself to live in the here and now, I am gifted with an abundance of solutions to problems that I had thought were unsolvable. So lets unite this Festive Season and be grateful for every little thingwe have a choice to be either fabulous or tedious. Make your choice and keep it real.