What brings you peace?

[Shazzam]

As most members are aware the last eight months have been very difficult for me and I keep trying to find places of peace; the ocean is one of these.

What do you do to find a moment of peace?

What is a place or a practice that makes you feel at peace with yourself, with others, and with the world?

What advice would you give others that are suffering; or what help would you offer?

I would be interested as I think that we have reached a point in Australia that we don't really care about each other; it is quickly becoming like the US; where money matters and nothing else.

I think we are fast losing (or have lost a sense of community). That makes me so sad. People don't knock on doors anymore to make sure that someone is ok, because they are too scarred.

I didn't grow up this way!

Is it the same elsewhere in the world?

How can we change this?

We need to be the ones to make the first move. Each one individually I think.

[CityYoung]

I think this is the globalization.no one can stop it by anyway .except focus on teaching our children in school about globalization .

[MissLT]

As most members are aware the last eight months have been very difficult for me and I keep trying to find places of peace; the ocean is one of these.

What do you do to find a moment of peace?

What is a place or a practice that makes you feel at peace with yourself, with others, and with the world?

What advice would you give others that are suffering; or what help would you offer?

I would be interested as I think that we have reached a point in Australia that we don't really care about each other; it is quickly becoming like the US; where money matters and nothing else.

Shazzam, I know you didn't mean to generalize, but what happened with this bold part?

I think we are fast losing (or have lost a sense of community). That makes me so sad. People don't knock on doors anymore to make sure that someone is ok, because they are too scarred.

I didn't grow up this way!

For five years I'd lived at my old place I never knew any of my neighbors well. I couldn't even remember their faces or names. However, we did help each other when we needed to. Last time, I dropped my credit card along with other important personal cards somewhere in the building. One lady happened to see them, and she returned them to me.

Another time, I saw a cell phone was lying on the ground in my building. I checked the phone list to leave that person's relative a voice message that I had the owner's phone. They could come to my apartment to get the phone.

I don't think we need to knock on anyone's door for a casual conversation, for I love my own privacy and wouldn't like to be disturbed after work. I can do that at the neighboorhood watch. It's a sense of a little community between neighbors right there.

[Shazzam]

Sorry Lenny I didn't mean anything by the bold part I was just playing around with my word processing book that night! ooooppppssss

I do agree that everyone needs their privacy as well my neighbour is very understanding with that. He needs his too; but if we are feeling lonely and just really need a cup of tea and a chat he is there for me just as i am for him. It is nice to know that.

[MissLT]

That's nice. Do you have your neighborhood watch at where you live, Shazzam? If not, I think you should organize one. Make it pot luck. Then invite local cops and firemen also.

Last time, my boyfriend's neighbors did it. Three cops and two firemen came. Those firemen even brought their truck with them. They also handed out fliers and little hats for kids. I gotta climb on the truck and yank the horn . The whole thing was really nice. They ate, exchanged casual conversation, and gave out ideas how to protect each other's house or keep the whole neighborhood safe by watching over each other.

[Shazzam]

That's nice. Do you have your neighborhood watch at where you live, Shazzam? If not, I think you should organize one. Make it pot luck. Then invite local cops and firemen also.

Last time, my boyfriend's neighbors did it. Three cops and two firemen came. Those firemen even brought their truck with them. They also handed out fliers and little hats for kids. I gotta climb on the truck and yank the horn . The whole thing was really nice. They ate, exchanged casual conversation, and gave out ideas how to protect each other's house or keep the whole neighborhood safe by watching over each other.

That is awesome Lenny. How

I must admit I have found that my friends are a great source of peace for me these days. I didn't realise how important they are in my life. Over the past eight months I feel blessed by the amount of support they have given me. They are always there and my Mum of course who is just a living legend.