INTRODUCTION

I realise, I never introduced my self. I just jumped right into posting my thoughts and poems. For myself, this blog is my publisher. My way of voicing my inner thoughts unto this world we share.

Have you ever experienced a ghostly phenomenon, one that makes you blink your eyes and pinch yourself to make sure you are awake? Experiences that you would rather keep to yourself because to tell it to anyone else makes you appear crazy. Even as you are retelling the event, you yourself are questioning the experience. The moment was so vivid, and as real as you reading this book right now, as real as the time on the clock. Many of us have had these experiences, experiences we cannot write off as a coincidence, or as our imagination playing tricks. I have had such an experience, an experience that has forever changed my life. To summarize my experience, I hit rock bottom in my life, and from depths of my making I was shown the awesome power of the life energy from where you and I came. Whether you and I believe in the existence of divine life energy or fully perceive our understanding of this life energy does not change the fact that the energy of life exists. Humans have had to evolve into our intellect. Humans can now understand the divine necessity of love. I can now see the beauty of love. My hope is that, as you are reading my thoughts and poetry, you gleam a truth in my words. I write with the intention of expressing myself in a manner that has you relating with my perceptions of this world. My hope is that you realize, with all our differences, we are very much the same. We are all the same in this life, as we all contain a spirit. We have different struggles in this life, but we all struggle.
We all want the same out of life when you dig down to the core of our spirit; we want to leave behind a better place for our loved ones to live.

Hello, My name is Robert James. My friends call me Robbie; you may also call me Robbie for you and I are embarking on a new friendship. I thank you for taking time out of your day to read my thoughts and poems. You may be asking yourself how it is we can start a friendship with you only reading a book I wrote. Well, this book contains my deepest thoughts; it is a book of writing that comes from my soul. You are either reading this book out of sheer curiosity or you are a person mindful of his or her own soul and thoughts and beliefs. This book is my means of opening the line of communication between you and I, therefore a foundation for which great friendships are founded. Even the greatest of friends have to respectfully agree to disagree. I was not always forward and talkative. Actually I was the exact opposite, and never would I have dared to bare my soul to complete strangers. Yet that is what I have found myself doing, not only now, but in my personal life too. My belief is that if I take the time and open up to the person or persons I’m interacting with during that particular moment of time, then they will have at that opportunity a chance to open up to me too, we make a connection through communication. To speak to me, is to get to know me, to know me is giving my self a chance to be liked and/or at least gain some respect from you. I am a man who believes in honesty. First however I had to learn to be honest with myself about whom I was and how I became to be the man I was. I was a shy introspective individual haphazardly walking through life. I’m using the term haphazardly loosely; I have a wonderful life, a life with no regrets. A life I care about. What was haphazardly about my life was my care to understand whom I was and how it related to love. My life was grand, full of love. Do I need to understand more than that? I believed in love but did not understand it, how could I have learned what love was through a religion that did not completely make sense? How does a world with so much love have so much injustice? Why am I apart of this world? What has shaped me to the man I am? How can I be the man I want to be? Some tough questions to answer, but as you continue to read, my hope is that you will find these answers for yourself as you follow along with me. We all have a past that has led us to this exact moment in time. Your past is a part of your journey here in this life, if we change even one moment of our past, the ripple effect of where we are now would have changed immeasurably. I love my life and if a chance were given to me to change anything in my life, I would not take it. Fact is none of us are given a chance at a do-over. Our decisions we make are permanent; they lead us into the next moment to make another decision. We do however have a choice, to make a decision that will lead us to where it is we want to be. We need to learn from our mistakes, question our self why we made that decision, what was I feeling. Don’t assume we know it all; maybe our perception of our self is wrong. Love can bring all this into focus; make sense of your life. When you have a clearer perception of whom you are, and why you are, than you may perceive your life and your actions in life differently than before. Understanding love has brought me to this point in time but not for free and the toll was not paid for by me alone. I did not solicit for any ones help and no one volunteered but through my actions, lives changed. This holds true for all of us; our actions affect everyone, even people we do not know.