Today (December the somethingth, really) I cried for the first time since I was 9. Karen (our next door neighbour)’s sister in law died in a car crash and her husband and little girl were in the car with her unable to help. This is the latest in a very long list of awful things that have happened to people that Kim and I care about and it is doing my head in. No need to go into details but good people seem to be having a very difficult time of it this year, while we are in South Africa, and I feel powerless and removed. It made me want to be at home with friends and family who I am missing a lot. It made me think a lot about what I am doing here and the future and all sorts. I thought and thought all around in a circle and then it was still shit so I gave up. It just seems to be nice people who suffer the most. I don’t know any arseholes with cancer.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Bad things and Good things
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Ah,my beloved,fill the cup that clears
ReplyDeletetoday of past regrets and future fears.
Tomorrow? Why tomorrow I may be myself with yesterday's seven thousand years,'- from the
Rubayiat of Omar Khayyam, trans Ed Fitzergarald.
Live it up?
Or there's this:
'The moving finger writes; and ,having writ,
Moves on ; Nor all thy piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out
a word of it.'
ibid
Or if you like...
ReplyDelete"Strike me down now, Darth, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine,"
Sorry mum, kidding. Seriously, you guys really have had a mixed bag this year with some serious downers and being far away from the uppers (Aside from the obvious!), and I'm massively impressed you never chucked it in, but battled on and supported each other through all the crap, coming out, no doubt exceptionally stronger. Last time for this blog, but no doubt again in the future, enormous piles and heaps and bags full and trenches full of respect... trenches? Ah well, you get the idea.
Al out