'LIKE DRAWS TO LIKE' - ONE WONDERS

There is an old adage that "like draws to like," and the antithesis of this would be that unlike keeps as far away from unlike as it is possible.  Fate, who seems to take a malignant pleasure in worrying humanity, throws them together, and the result can be an eternal conflict between the two.  Fire and water if you will.

This old geezer had a chat with a person well known to recently, and the consensus between our two great minds was that it is far more important not to be a moralist, rather be true to own beliefs and allow others to live as they will.  A lesson hard learned by this old geezer.

This old geezer does not suffer fools easily, and is not one to accept anti-social behaviour as the norm.  Drugs and alcohol have been the undoing of many a person known to this old geezer.

A lifetime has been spent being open to all sorts of folks.  What is the trick in surrounding one's self with carbon copies of self.  People who are different from, can be a pleasant surprise.  There is real value to being open to folks who at first glance seem the wrong sort.

Allow this old geezer to explain...

There is nary a drop of ink on the old geezer.  Tattoos, while intriguing on others, do not play well for MOI.   Society can be most unkind to people with multiple tattoos, on neck, face and arms and legs.  Makes a statement no doubt, one that is not always well read.

Recently met chaps with many colourful tattoos, some very permanent and others added for dramatic effect in performing.

The Maori group from New Zealand that booked into the Hilo Bay Hostel were by all appearances, 'unlike' as group of folks one would expect the old geezer to fall in with.

Being of 'open' mind, allowed this old geezer to get 'up close and in person', with a group of folks who have had a lasting effect on.  Never were there a more lovely group to be met.  If lived to be 100, rather think the days spent in the company of the Maori will be long remembered as a true high point.  Truly...

If being 'open' of mind applies to the old geezer, it also was much marked among the Maori from Palmerston North.

Being an avid reader, the old geezer came upon a quote that seems to apply to new best mates met from New Zealand;

'E koro te tino tangata e ngaro i roto i te tokomaha' which translates - A noble man can not be lost in a crowd.  Rather like to think it applies to both the male and female members of the group.