!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> A Mama's World: January 2015

Friday, January 09, 2015

Too quick too fast

Right after my post yesterday came the news of cancer again.


My friend and someone I feel close to - whether she does or not, is immaterial to me. I do. Someone younger than me. Someone with beautiful children, beautiful simple family. Touched by the C word.

I still cannot talk or think about it without choking.... and I wonder when will it come even nearer.

It is the easiest cancer - best success rate - should be no worry....and yet why can I not digest it?

The end result is not the only thing. It is the journey, it is the path - ahh, how long and how painful and how life-changing it is.... There is no fun, there is no joy, all that you have and need is "grit" "grit" grit" with loads of faith.

I feel like the senseless animal who wants to just ask - why? Why she? Why them? I tell myself "it's ok" and something inside me cries out 'how is it ok?'

I know I will feel better. I know they will be fine. I know life will go on. I know they will emerge stronger.

That same feeling of the silent volcanic eruption which shakes up the whole system. Tomorrow will look better.

Thursday, January 08, 2015

An end and a start

Another year passed by, another year began. I guess old people talk like this. If this is a necessary and sufficient condition, I am old - as those words came to my mind as soon as I opened my thoughts to a title for the first post of the year..

But I feel young. I feel happy.

I have not worked to keep myself feeling young but I have worked really hard to keep myself happy. So yay to me :)

I talked (including electronic talk like email, sms, whatsapp) to most of the people who make me feel happy, who bring out the positive in me. I tried not to let my unhappiness spill over to the ones forced to be near and close to me :) I found myself a new task and challenge (learning cycling at this very young age ;) and I am super excited with the progress and my commitment to it. Soon I will have a more boring post on that :)

My first week of the year went well. Happy new year!