MINDHUGS WELLNESS

I love saying hello to people. From old friends to complete strangers, I enjoy the simple ice breaker of a polite greeting that initiates conversations. Regardless of whomever, I do my best to go out of my way to be nice. I love making friends with cab drivers, security men, shop attendants, hawkers, washing bay attendants, bank tellers and so on. It is amazing how much you can learn from these people if you are willing to make the effort to treat them with some respect. A few days ago, after I had closed from work, I had to join a very long queue to take a cab home. As luck will have it, the clouds let go of their pent up content of rain and we had to quickly run for shelter. After standing in a shed of a kiosk for a while, I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around only to see the smiling face of a young taxi driver asking me to follow him. Apparently he had seen me in the queue and not wanting to cause a stir has parked somewhere to call me to board his vehicle. I was ove...

A couple of months ago I was watching the latest installment of the James Bond movies called Skyfall and an interesting event happened. If you have watched the movie you will realize that right in the first couple of action scenes, the hero and main character was shot by friendly fire and presumed dead. Now it was a little upsetting to realize the hero of the movie died in the first few scenes but I was not overly worried because I knew he couldn’t be dead. After all he was James Bond, the hero and main character. The director of the movie, the crew and all the technical staff knew this too. The only people who were worried were the audience, those who had no idea how the movie would end.  Another event was when I had the privilege to watch one of Uncle Ebo Whyte’s plays. In this particular one, a couple was having an argument which later turned into a bitter exchange of words. In the middle of the play, they got a divorce amidst lots of groans and protest from the audien...

A few days ago I read an article written by one of the fascinating young women I have had the privilege of being friends with. She spoke about emptying the bowls that had stale food in them as an analogy for letting go of things that were no longer helping your state of mind. It was a good and timely call. A few days ago I had the unpleasant double tragedy of losing all my data and work when both my external hard disc and internal laptop hard disc crashed within the same week. As you can imagine I was devastated. My collection was classic and well stocked. It had taken me almost three years and lots of money to create my library of e-books, audio books, sermons and documentaries and since I am addicted to reading, losing my library felt like the end of the world, my world. The most difficult part to accept was the fact that, I had also lost the first few pages of the book I have been working on for a while now.   After going through the mandatory grieving period that lasted f...

I've heard many people say "money cannot buy you happiness" and i must say i completely believed that until a couple of years ago, i discovered that, it is almost only said by those who do not have money and most often than not, used to justify laziness and spite the rich. But you and i know that, neither does poverty buy happiness. So why this mantra?   Let's evaluate this concept; Truly money in itself is incapable of making you attain real happiness but i believe, it gives you a better chance at happiness than poverty. Giving to the poor, helping the homeless and hungry, supporting the work of God and maintaining a good home and family are all progressive routes towards happiness. Now tell me, which of these can poverty make available? So before you go all self-righteous and proclaim that money is that and that, just step back and think, is your poverty making it any better? Then there are also those who like to quote the Bible to justify why they are not wor...