Luke Freeman

There are officially WAY to many STUFFED systems in the world. Too may old people in high places, too many people with too much power, too many conflicts of interest.

Today some of my good mates went through something that I’ve seen far to often.

Good, talented people, people that should be selected, sent home without good reason. Whilst other people take their place.

Some people seem to always work the hardest, be the best for the job, yet still miss out. Whilst others seem to not work as hard, not be as well suited yet somehow get all the doors opened for them.

I am not going to deny that many good things can, have and do come from the unjust actions of people. If I had been given a fair chance last year at selection and it worked out then I would have missed out on a bunch of opportunities and my life would look different. But the end still doesn’t justify the means.

Many things in the world need to be a lot more transparent, a lot more just and ethical.

I think that where ever I end up in life that is one of my goals, I want to be accountable to that too.

Tonight my dearest mother said that 12 months would be a very long time to be deprived of my hugs.

Until recently I would have had no concept of what it’d be like to miss something like that, for most of my life all the most important hug recipients haven’t been away for more than a couple of months at a time. But I’ve learned that so far four months is already hard enough.

I’m such a physical contact kinda person. I’ve known that for as long as I can remember. My family always called me …

If there was one thing I’d like to improve it would be my capacity to selflessly love people… following that I could do with a some more wisdom and humility.

I guess they all come with time and effort though.

Like, I don’t care about how confused, impatient or rejected that I could ever be, if I had the capacity to still selflessly love people, I would then have the greatest capacity for change.

The problem is that reciprocal love is so much more satisfying and selfless love is draining.

Don’t even get me started on all the different definitions of love either.

By the …

I’ve been thinking that for all my insecurities, lack of confidence, mistakes, uncertainties et cetera… I’m pretty damn comfortable in my own skin. I know a lot of people who couldn’t even say that. And that is one of the things that matters most to me, so I’m pretty happy about that.

That is all.

(Yeah, another short, self-reflective post.. deal with it.)

I think I’m an impatient man stuck in a patient man’s body.

I have a huge capacity to be patient, but I’d often rather not wait.

Ah well at least the sun is out today… now for croissants and coffee with my beautiful family. 

Somehow I an simultaneously very excited & can not possibly wait to go to canada but yet am at peace with the fact that it is getting closer by the day and that there are thing that need to happen before then.

Just game back from the GLP colloquia: Spirituality and Social Transformation. And the description quotes “You will learn how spiritual principles and processes assist the student in becoming more powerfully effective catalysts for social transformation as global leaders in empowering themselves and others.” The guy that was running it was honestly the most fascinating person I’ve ever met — such an interesting bloke, no doubt. Obviously, like a lot of things as I get older, it left a lot more questions than answers but it was such a great platform of discussion and opened up my eyes to heaps of things. I really …

Sometimes it seems that no matter how many things I get wrong, or how deep into my own world I may be, I am graced with an abundance of wonderful people around me who continue to make me amazed at how good the world is once we can see past the immediate stresses of uni, work, personal life, finances and trying to achieve.

Life, it’s worth living.

We can’t always afford to do things to make us feel alive - sometimes it’s just part of seeing what things are already there that make life wonderful.

And I’m certainly grateful for every single one …

okay…officially procrastination and useful distractions are completely different things! Some useful distractions lighten up your day or clear up your mind thus making you much more productive, refreshed and balanced

Only a fool plans and thinks that things will work out according to those plans. A wise man plans and knows he isn’t ready for the inevitability of the unexpected.

And somethings happen that you don’t expect, that you certainly don’t plan. They can be hard, they can also be the best things that ever happen to you - they can be both at the same time.

Three thing are for certain:

you will learn from the unexpected you will be forever grateful for many of them these are the things that change your life forever, one way or another

I am a testament to the …