Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
“The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them.” ― Marty Rubin
Forward is living the best life I possibly can.
Forward is living intentionally.
Forward is forgiveness.
Forward is truth.
Forward is accepting truth.
Forward is living with passion.
Forward is cutting ties.
Forward is moving on.
I will not give in
Shattered!
2013 is only 49 days old, yet I feel like I’ve been tested over and over.
First my heart breaks, I had to say goodbye to a friend.
Then my thumb got busted.
Then my other thumb got busted too in a hot glue-gun accident.
Then a Ganglion cyst.
Then yesterday, my laptop fell and the screen was shattered. It fell on the jump drive sticking out of it and that broke too.
SERIOUSLY?!
I started throwing the pity party I so sorely wanted. I mean what the EFF right?! Tears evermore for all the information on both devices that I wasn’t sure could be recovered. And for all the things that seemed to be going wrong. It’s like every time I got my head above water…some undercurrent of negativity tried to pull me under.
This year has been a completely unpredictable series of twists and sometimes unfortunate turns of fate. And I will not allow myself a moment more of self-pity. I am grateful for the “new opportunities” all these twists and turns have brought into my life. I will see things as they really are and I will let go of the expectation that things are always supposed to go a certain way. I will be honest with myself always.
The world did not end when I my laptop fell. So I will suck it up and be open to new circumstances when things don’t go the way I expect.
Negativity will not win.
I will not be discouraged. I will not give in to despair. I will learn the lessons and I will move forward always.
Broken.
Thumbs heal. Laptop screens can be replaced – at a cost, but it can be replaced. I was able to recover all the information except one file (which I can live without) on my jump drive. Ganglion cysts can be busted. I will continue to love and my heart will be healed.
I CAN do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me!
I will continue to write.
I will continue to LOVE.
…and I will back-up all my information on a couple extra jump drives for safe-keeping.
Arms wide open
While cleaning my apartment this morning I found my late friend Jo’s-Ann’s memorial pamphlet. It stopped me in my tracks.
Sunrise: 25th May 1980
Sunset: 23rd December 2012
She was so young; a victim of Lupus .
Jo’s-Ann defied all odds and despite her challenges with Lupus, became the lawyer she always dreamed of becoming. She found a way to make her own rules as she went along. She did not allow the sometimes debilitating effects of her illness to direct how she saw her future. She assessed her reality, made plans and followed through on the those plans that did not give any room to “limitations”. What an example for those of us, who have far less to encumber us.
Her approach to life, the unique route she carved for herself and her ultimate triumph, has inspired me to go in the direction of my own dreams.
Finding the pamphlet, reminded me that I have been delaying deleting her from my BlackBerry Messenger. The very act of which seemed so final. Somehow this was my last connection to her.
Arrived.
That’s her BlackBerry messenger status.
Arrived.
She put that up when she got to the US back in November. She went there on vacation. She never came back.
My last and favourite memory of her was at Queen’s Royal College Old Boy’s Dinner, which we attended about two weeks before she left for vacation. I stood to go join the buffet line and asked Jo’s-Ann what she wanted because I was bringing her dinner to her as well. She said “Everything!”
At the time, I thought to myself…WOW…the girl said everything! No thought about the hour of the night or carbs or that “everything” might be too much for her. She just said, “Everything.”
She had “Everything” that night and she did so with no regrets.
This is an important lesson for me and for others as well.
This is how we should approach life; with arms and heart wide open. Wanting, taking in, absorbing, consuming, embracing, giving…EVERYTHING.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.– 2 Timothy 4:7
When I look at her Messenger profile now, “Arrived” has new meaning.
Her work on earth was finished and now she truly has arrived. I am ready now to say the final goodbye.….I hit “Delete contact.”
Rest in peace my friend. We shall meet again.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss
Kiss
/kis/
Verb
Touch with the lips as a sign of love, sexual desire, reverence, or greeting.
Noun
A touch with the lips in kissing.
Synonyms
verb. osculate – buss – lip
noun. buss – osculation – peck
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