Go Left

When it doesn't feel right, go left

6 May 2015 | From Christoph of Germany

OFFICIAL POSTCROSSING

When did 'right' become synonymous with 'correct'? The left path is just as valid as the right one. So when it doesn't feel right, go left. As Einstein puts it, "The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before."

Think you've got it bad?

Just to remind you...

10 Mar 2015 | From Mourad of Algeria 

POSTCROSSING FRIEND

If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.

If you have money in the bank, your wallet, and some spare change you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation you are luckier than 500 million people alive and suffering.

If you can read this message you are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world who cannot read it at all.

Beautiful people

I Am the Messenger. Markus Zusak

10 Oct 2014 | From Sue of Guernsey

SURPRISE POSTCARD

Here's another surprise postcard from Sue - the first was a postcard from Ireland. Sue and I swapped some postcards before. And she have sent me some lovely surprises from then on. This postcard is maybe from a collection of cards showing quotes - just like one of the first postcards she sent me.

A friend told me that this line is maybe from the book 'I am the Messenger' by Markus Zusak. The actual lone from the book goes like this:

“Sometimes people are beautiful.

Not in looks.

Not in what they say.

Just in what they are.”

But of course, the line might have been used somewhere even before the book was published. The Messenger is a 2002 novel by Markus Zusak. It was released in the United States under the name I Am the Messenger. It tells the story of a young man challenged by an unknown benefactor to become a better person by helping those around him. Through a series of assignments given to him on the aces from a deck of playing cards, Ed Kennedy learns to face his fears. He is able to rise above his feelings of incompetence as he helps others in areas where they need the help the most.

Be happy :)

The Guernsey stamp is happy too :)

6 Aug 2014 | From Sue of Guernsey

POSTCROSSING SWAP

Sue sent me another postcard with a "happy" advice in front. The stamp she used was the Guernsey Postcrossing stamp that recognises the online hobby website Postcrossing. The Guernsey stamp shows an outline of the island of Guernsey coupled with a smiley offering a "thumbs up" to the hobby website of Postcrossing.

The tiny island of Guernsey was the fourth country (or in this case, special territory) to have launched its own Postcrossing stamp. The Guernsey Postcrossing stamp was launched 28 May 2014. You can read more about it here. I hope the Philippines would also have its own Postcrossing stamps in the future (fingers crossed).

Letters of Jane Austen - Brabourne Edition

Letter to Cassandra, Dec. 24, 1798

21 Nov, 2013 | From Honeysha of Malaysia

FACEBOOK SWAP

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817) is an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour. Some of her famous works include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813),  and Persuasion (1818) - her last completed novel.