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I decided this week to focus on an intention for the whole week. I chose the word LOVE and decided to just simply focus on that word and what it meant. Immediately I was challenged as an hour or so later I sat talking to someone who basically didn\u2019t take a breath, cut me off constantly in conversation and that sort of thing. I could feel myself getting annoyed and wanting to cut her off back but then the word love popped into my head. Everything changed, I simply let her talk. I didn\u2019t try to make my point or anything at all. All I did was do what she needed me to do in that moment was to simply listen to her.<\/p>\n

This one intention changed everything. Things began to unfold like magic over the next few days. I guess its what people mean when they bang on about being in the flow. I had left a scarf at a friend\u2019s house, I went over to retrieve it and thought I would do a spot of shopping in a local supermarket. I was literally parking my car in the supermarket parking lot wondering what the reason was that I had left my scarf \u00a0(in my obsession to find meaning and significance in every single event) 5 minutes later I was aimlessly walking darling with a yam in my trolley when I stumbled upon a friend I had just recently sent a message to saying we should meet up. Thus ensued a conversation for 45 minutes over the kitchen rolls during which time my friend had suggested the perfect idea for the poster of my show.<\/p>\n

Realized that I had forgotten to get nuts meant another stop at another supermarket. This time 2 women approached me; the first who asked where I was from and who turned out to be an Israeli school teacher and when I said that I had shot a movie about the beginning of Israel she asked me to come in and talk to her students about the experience and introduce the film. The other is a vintage clothes seller and wanted to talk to me about gloves and things.<\/p>\n

In a city as large and as sprawling and as generally lonely as Los Angeles these encounters are not to be sniffed at. In 5 years of living here I have literally bumped into someone I know maybe 4 times or so and not often had fully fledged conversations about the middle east over peanuts and mixed almonds.<\/p>\n

I got home and tried on a dress my partner on the show had ordered for herself on the internet which when arrived proved to be the wrong size. It fit me like a glove.<\/p>\n

I have begun to think of people as books. If I’m lucky enough I can get to read a little of their story, hear a little of their adventure, their experiences, their conclusions.<\/p>\n

Its hard to sometimes remember to focus on the word love to be perfectly honest. I tend to manage it best when I’m struggling with the person in front of me. So I have yet to really say I\u2019ve conquered total self control over things simply by thinking love, but I have made a start and seen what a difference it can make to your minute and to your precious day.<\/p>\n

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