first scene

set in africa

talking to an african girl/woman who was about 19

her attitude to me was that she regarded me as she did with

all other people... just another person

she saw all people the same way... as a separate part of self

that embracive acceptance of all people that goes with

childhood

the natural tendency for an immediate friendship with any and

every other being

here was a woman who didn't see a difference between a man

and a woman

next scene

bought an expensive diamond ring at an affordable local price 

next scene

we were sitting talking and i gave her the ring

she laughed thinking it was my sense of humour

next scene

i expressed my feelings by leaning over and kissing her on

the neck

my lips were slightly parted and without thinking about it i

touched her neck with the tip of my tongue

that was the moment her thoughts changed

the moment of magic when two people make that transition

from two people in life to two people in love

i was no longer another person among many

my feelings had touched her in that way which produces the

thoughts and emotions which we describe with the word love

it can come from the woman or the man

the time and the place is one of the marvels of his

terrible love

try to imagine how it can be that love/life can arrange events

so that two people can be brought together from a vast array

of seemingly random circumstances

how could events in heaven possibly be translated to events

here on earth when the people who are affected by the events

had never met before ?

it's easy to imagine someone suggesting to their best friend

that they come around to sunday lunch having already invited

someone that her or his best friend had mentioned they

liked and that from initial meeting love blossomed

but how could you do that from another place without either

one of them having met before ?

further, how could you be sure that both of them would exist

at a point in time through thousands of millions of years of

murderous events ?

a stray bullet hit my love

interpretation/analysis          

an entry specifically addressing the problems that accompany

people's sense of identity

the entry, called identity, responsibility and happiness, was

inspired by a neils bohr, appears to have found its natural

place and the time here

two of the main causes that furnish the divisions which allow

wars and animosity to flourish are nationality and ethnicity

it was recognised many years ago that a persons identity is

tightly bound up with her and his (mainly his) sense of

national identity

it is so thoruroughly ingrained into a persons sense of identity

that the mere mention of not seeing oneself as a being who

belongs to the country they live in has a treacherous tinge to

it

" for king and country " is, and has been for many centuries,

the rallying cry when mustering a fighting force

it is currently being succesfully reinforced via the

oligarch-controlled mainstream media

for a day or two just count the number of times the word

british or england is used on british t.v. programmes and you

will get the picture and understand why it is that

britain is the most unequal society in the western world

it's not just this country, it's all of them

even the handful of countries who aren't controlled by

the oligarch's do it

it's the same systemic creeping-death that has found its way

into every country in the world via the old testament through

the notion of unintentional murder

there is some relief coming through the european union which

is successfully ridding the continent of the nationalistic

outlook which whips up divisions but even here ethnicity is a

closet issue

the problem of identity has its roots in the absence of a

person's ability to compare the finite numerical value of

individuals against the overwhelming and incomprehensible