Up Up and Away!

It has been said that you are or become the company you keep.  It is fascinating, that the choices we make in our lives, sets us up for where we end up and the people that we end up meeting and associating with, have a serious influence on our lives, as the journey of life unfolds.  Although we cannot control every circumstance and decision, there is little doubt that as we go, we are confronted with decisions that at the time may not even seem significant, but when we begin to reflect, we realise that they have a profound effect on us as individuals.  We tend to build certain relationships, that we end up keeping for years, due to the type of place we get our education, the type of course we study and then in business the industry we choose to ply our trade.  We meet individuals that have similar visions and passions and this sets us off on a journey where we gain friends and relationships that tend to last and grow over many years.  The people that we end up working with and interacting with can become the best of friends and there are common interests and similar beliefs, that we tend to share.  I guess you end up slowly growing a close "laager type" existence, because of the common interests you share on a daily basis.  Yet there is an entire world of people and relationships and it is good to get a perspective every now and then, that the world remains out there, with fascinating places and opportunities.  It used to be only for the wealthy and privileged to be able to travel the globe but definitely social media and things like google and facebook, have reduced the size of the world, allowing us not only to capture the greater world and to be able to circulate it fast, but also to take photos which would otherwise have been left on a camera, or at best developed into an album kept in ones house; today these can be posted and shared and give us a perspective of so many communities and moments almost as they unfold.  It means that we can believe that there are new beginnings and hope for fresh starts.  It means that we should look at our own world and embrace what we have and know that no matter the circumstances, we can start again or keep going, with a belief that the world is a little larger than our little world only.  We can start to cry about a single thing that may be going wrong and end up weeping over our whole existence. While I am grateful for the people closest to me, I can also encourage those having tougher times, to look around and see that we need not be satisfied with just what is in our immediate surrounds.  We can afford in this beautiful world, to look further and believe that there may be other positive adventures around the corner, just waiting to be explored, so we need not get bogged down in our daily plight, but we can truly expand our horizons and take our place in this unique world.