Life, Change and Divorce By Jacqueline Sebiane

Each person’s individual life is so interesting and poetic as events unfold in their natural order.  I literally just wrote an email to Giada De Laurentiis the other day to inform her that Tony Munafo, a good friend and business associate of her aunt Raffaella (“Raffi”) De Laurentiis, had just passed away.  When I worked for attorney Jake Bloom on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills a small percentage of my workload was administering legal affairs for Arnold Schwarzenneger with his nephew Patrick Knapp.  The majority of my work was administering legal affairs for Sylvester Stallone.  I got to travel to Italy at the time for the filming of a movie starring Sylvester Stallone at Cinecitta Movie Studio.   Giada’s aunt Raffi was the executive producer of the film and I remember laughing and hanging out with her on the set like it was just yesterday.  Little did I know when I was emailing Giada that she was experiencing her own serious life event.  It is only today that I learned that Giada is getting a divorce from her husband of eleven years Todd Thompson.

Giada is the host of her own show Giada At Home on the Food Network.  She is a major Food Network star. Viewers of the show all over the globe have been captivated by how adorable she is and her seemingly perfect life as she cooks for her family and friends at her beach front home in Malibu, California. 

Don’t we all want the storybook life?  Don’t we all want to believe in the fantasy?  The reality is that change is inevitable.  Marriages fail because love, if it really existed in the first place, changes.  And people change.  Some people are willing to accept that while others throw in the towel on the quest for self discovery.  As you travel through the journey of life, be accepting of where your life is each day and savor the beautiful moments for they will not last.  Life is fleeting.  Appreciate each day for with every tomorrow will come change.

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Disappointment By Jacqueline Sebiane

Have you ever been disappointed by a person, a situation or an experience? I am sure the answer is an overwhelming yes.  Sometimes things don’t turn out the way you want or expect them to.  Sometimes someone you like, love, trust or respect does something unsavory that forever changes your life or the way you feel about them.  Recently my friend of many years BMW Race Car Driver Bill Auberlen revealed an ugly side of himself to me that immediately changed the way I feel about him so much so that it caused me to end my relationship with him.  Sometimes your family or home life is a source of great pain rather than your safe haven.  Or sometimes you work really hard for something only to be knocked down in a moment by a person or event that causes you to regress rather than progress.  Don’t let disappointment cripple you or make you bitter.  Rest in the peace that everything happens just the way it is supposed to for your own evolution. Disappointment evokes thought and emotions that are often the catalyst for a change that redirects the course of your life.  It’s up to you to be rooted in awareness so you can recognize the messages that come out of life’s disappointments so you can make the right decisions for a full and meaningful life.  

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Your Dreams By Jacqueline Sebiane

So many people have become spectators of other people’s lives rather than being active participants in their own lives. Paying attention to every detail of celebrities’ lives has become a national past-time. People are hypnotically watching reality TV attentively observing others activities and interactions rather than being present in their own lives. Everybody is obsessed with their cell phones talking about everything/ nothing day and night and robotically sending/receiving text messages. Online dating and hook-ups  are the in thing nowadays rather than people experiencing the excitement of meeting someone new randomly while they are out living their life. And an inordinate amount of time is spent on other people’s Twitter, Instagram and/or Facebook accounts checking people out and posting comments.  Does anyone really have 500 plus friends just because they accept a Friend Request on Facebook?  I can barely keep up with a handful of people. How ridiculous. It’s important to have fun, watch mindless TV shows and do leisurely things sometimes just to take a mental break from the reality of your life but all of that is only healthy if it is done in moderation. 

Have you wasted precious minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years of your life obsessing with social media, the Internet, TV, your cell phone and leisurely activity without working on your goals and developing your live interpersonal relationships?  Have you abandoned your dreams and stagnated in your career? Or worse yet, maybe you never took the time to pursue a career.  If the answer is yes, then this quote is for you.  It is one of my favorite quotes and it is powerful and thought-provoking.

You are what your deep driving desire is.

As your desire is, so is your will.

As your will is, so is your deed.

As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV      

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