This little man makes me smile loads (:

Maybe this world is another planet's hell?

I've been thinking a lot lately about heaven and hell.

We think of hell as some fiery dark place filled with hate and people who are horrible but isn't that what our world is? People constantly hating on each other, hating them selves, hating the things people do, hating the world around them... So, why wouldn't this be the hell of another planet? Because there’s sure as hell enough hate to go around.

On a less serious note, perhaps this could be heaven compared to somewhere else?

Happy Diwali

There's an Indian mother and daughter family who live a couple of doors down from my flat and I was walking passed them this morning as they were spray painting some patterns onto the floor outside of their door.

The mother smiled at me and said "happy diwali".

I learned that Diwali is the "festival of lights", and that it's a five day festival in India that celebrates the victory of good over evil. Today and for the next five days, Indians all over the world will be lighting candles all over their houses, letting off fireworks and firecrackers, sharing sweets, and worshipping the goddess of wealth - Lakshmi.

They invited me into their home to show me all of their home-made candles and decorations, and hanging on the wall above the fireplace was a large picture of this:

This is how India looks from outer space on Diwali night.

“If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2am, clutching a book to her chest, and weeping...make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while they always are. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colourful life imaginable. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.” - Robert Pattinson

1920's

There's a discussion going on right now about how my life would be like in the 1920's.

It's bizarre how much a lot of people know about the 1920's, and how much they're fitting me into that time period!

Here are some of the opinions:

"The 1920's, the age of jazz, you'd fit in perfectly. I imagine you'd watch silent films like Don Juan in bed, selecting songs on jukeboxes in ice cream parlours, and sitting under trees reading the classics that would have just been published: Lady Chatterley's Lover, Siddhartha, and Women in Love."

"You'd be like one half of the twins from 'Something Dangerous'; beautiful, rich, with a French home and husband in Paris."

"You'd have loved life in the 1920's for all of the art! Surrealism, art deco, Pablo Picasso and Rene Magritte, and let's not forget the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (which you'd have so gone to!).".

"If you had a past life in the 1920's, i'm pretty sure you'd be part of a cohort - for something gritty like being the survivors of a bus crash - and you'd be well and truly a part of the 'Lost Generation'."

"If you can picture yourself drinking noodle juice whilst playing mah-jong or doing crossword puzzles, then you'd fit right into the 1920's!"

"Nah, I can't see you getting excited over the Egyptomania that swept the world in the 1920's as the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered."

"Are you even asking this question?! You'd totally fit right in to the 1920's and there's no doubt that you've had a past life in the roaring twenties. King George the fifth, Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, T S Eliot, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Houdini, Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, Pablo Picasso - you've heard of these, yes?"

"Early 1920's fashions would have suited you, not the horrible bob though. You'd have hated that fashion! I always thought you had a Norma Talmadge look about you."

"I could see you being a 1920's secretary or some sort of journalist reporting on the womens right to vote, not the average housewife. However, coincidently, contraception for women was invented in the 1920's so maybe you could have been a prostitute in a past life? They had a lot of those!"

"I used Google to try and fing you the perfect 1920's life but then got side tracked by the phrase 'flapper', which you should add to your list of 20's slang. A flapper is a young, fun loving woman of the 20's who is usually associated with the film industry. I think you'd have just been like Clara Bow."

So, basically, in a past life in the ninety twenties, I could have been either of the two:

1) A rich young woman in her twenties who is beautiful and dressed like Norma Talmadge who likes doing the jive to jazz music, playing music on a jukebox, reading classical books, and visits the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

2) A middle class woman in her twenties who looks and dressed like Clara Bow and is resembled as a "flapper" and has a job as a journalist whilst moonlighting as a prostitute.