On Thursday of last week I drove up to Port Macquarie to surprise mum for her birthday and take her out to lunch. 

Now, my mum and step-father are still very strict Seventh-Day Adventists (I was brought up one) and my mum deals with what I do by referring to it as “counselling”, which in retrospect is something that I kind of do, but it’s intuitive counselling and my step-father, well, he has no idea what I do at all!  I do get torn about this, one I just want to say what and who I am, but on the other, I couldn’t be bothered dealing with the religious lecture that he would try and give me so I just don’t say anything, mind you if he asked me what I did, I would just tell him but at this stage I just couldn’t be bothered rocking the boat just for the sake of it.

Which leads me to the whole thing of religions – I love that saying that floats around Facebook which says “Freedom of religion includes mine”.  And that is so true!  Our world is a mixing pot of different things, people with different beliefs to mine and yours, but not only that, look at nature, there are more than one colour of flower or one vegetable and they all get together just fine.  There is no one right way that has precedence over all others, it’s about acceptance of who and what we are.  This is what makes us all interesting!

For instance, if you decide that you don’t like mushrooms are you going to go around telling people that they’re not allowed to eat mushrooms anymore?  I don’t think so.  All you have to do is not eat mushrooms yourself, but don’t condemn those that do love mushrooms and eat them.

The same goes for your personal religious or pagan or atheist or whatever views.  I am happy being who I am and I love what I do, but just because it might not gel with what you believe, don’t run me down or condemn me for it, let us learn to appreciate all the differences in the world, accept them as they are and you know what? You might even learn something.