Understanding the values of life

I would like to say that to me, the most important thing in life is friendship and success. Without these there is no meaning to life. Those successes don’t have to be personal, but an achievement that one can be proud of mentally, physically and spiritually.

For most people, the family is the most important thing and sharing, marriage and children, whether married or not, or with someone you wish to share your life with of the same sex, it’s not important, only, the value of life. Whatever you do, my feelings are family, work and karate-do and of course fishing.

Which makes me think of another important thing, the outlet of stress. Unless you have an outlet, all that you do will suffer. You must have time to yourself, something that you enjoy which only you can benefit, from your effort. By doing this, you can regenerate those batteries to cope with the every day stresses.

Communications and body language and understanding of cultures do really help. By this, I mean ‘Please, thank-you, sorry’, a smile, an acknowledgement.

In many cultures this is considered a sign of weakness, but to the human being, this is a sign of friendship. Of course if there is a smile, then there is an acknowledgement of success.

Something to think about.

Sensei George Andrews

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