"I like tigers, although I used to like lions the most. Tigers need a bit of maturity to appreciate maybe... Lions are the king of the jungle. But tigers... They have that fierce look. They're solo hunters, calm yet ferocious when need to be.
I like the colour, white. I used to like black. White also takes some maturity to appreciate. It's sensitive, it can change to another shade or a completely different colour so easily. It's also a fresh slate, a blank canvas.
Favourite body of water? I like the ocean, without a doubt. It's just so dangerous and relentless, it reduces any human to its mercy. All the gadgets and deep sea exploration... I will never fully understand it..."
I break away from my memory of last week's trip to Nan Tien Temple in Wollongong. A day's car trip with an exciting conversation about how the colours we like, the animals we are drawn to and the bodies of water we appreciate most represent deeper aspects of ourselves.
Drawn back into memory, the temple was a beautiful realisation, or a reaffirmation of how attraction of abstract human energy works. Like a combination of magnets and antennas, we push and pull others based on who we output ourselves in a certain moment. I put my hands together and felt a powerful presence of appreciation and gratitude; I'm thankful for life to have given me two close friends who came to the temple with me. Appreciation and gratitude so powerful and heart-moving, I am simply unable or unwilling to ask for more in that moment. The previous voice throbbing "where were these people in my childhood?" slowly ebbing away.
We stood on top of the hill, overlooking the vast temple grounds. And I couldn't help but feel the weight of change, shifting from what was once subconscious yet powerful feelings of shame, spurred by childhood habits, into yielding acceptance.
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