Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 32/365 Most of us have been sentenced to a life of shame, apathy, guilt, grief and anger. Our shackles are the negative programmes our jailers (our parents) engineered into us. They implemented programmes to enslave us by imprinting lasting thoughts such as “you’re a stupid child,” “you don’t deserve anything,” […]
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 31/365 Many of us struggle with guilt our entire lives and some try to avoid the consequences of our actions by denying guilt. I don’t know about you, but I’m on a first-name basis with guilt. I realised that my lack of knowledge and unconscious parenting has put my child […]
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 30/365 I found a beautiful Facebook post by My Little Witch that talks about how we create (spell) our reality. The Fuckening When your day is going too well, and you don’t trust it and some shit finally goes down. Ah, there it is, the fuckening. I don’t […]
Jacques de Villiers writing quest: Article 29/365 I got triggered the other day. I’ve been looking for CV writers to help me with my LinkedIn clients who need their resumes updated. I found two of them; highly experienced recruitment professionals. Both gifts from God. From a business standpoint, a blessing. One charges R900 per CV […]
Jacques – writing quest: Article 28/365 I got lost coming out of Vanderbijlpark, today. I know right, how does one do that? Evidently one can. Instead of going on the R59, I ended up on the N1 where I had to pay a toll at Grasmere Plaza. This morning before I left for Vanderbijlpark, I saw […]
Jacques – writing quest: Article 27/365 We’ve all heard of the Placebo effect, when someone feels better after receiving a treatment that isn’t supposed to work. The opposite of that is the Nocebo effect. It happens when someone expects a negative response or anticipates negative effects from an experience. Some people dismiss these as quackery. I […]
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 26/365 When it comes to potential, goldfish and humans aren’t that much different. Have you noticed that the smaller the fishbowl, the smaller the goldfish? That’s only a third of the story, of course. Genetics and the quality & quantity of the food it eats play a decisive […]
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 25/365 A couple of months ago, a spiritually enlightened being who I greatly admire said something about dealing with Muggles. Muggles in the Harry Potter series refer to those who show no magical ability. For example, people who live unaware of the magical world are called Muggles by […]
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 24/365. I don’t know about you, but for me along with shame *(20), guilt (30) is a strong theme in my life. I feel guilty for not being able to protect my mother from an abusive husband. I feel guilty for being irritated with her that I had […]
Article 23/365 of Jacques’s writing quest. I woke up around 01h00 this morning. Outside it was deathly quiet. The air was so still that even the squadrons of mosquitoes that plagued me every night couldn’t fly. Their wings found no purchase in nothingness. It unsettled me. The wind plucked up and whispered life back into […]