Throughout the centuries, poets have written about the sense of sadness, loss and lethargy that can accompany the shorter, colder days of winter. Many of us notice tiredness, a bit of weight gain, difficulty getting out of bed and bouts of "the blues" as winter arrives. I always found this laughable, that is until now! Now I am the one experiencing these very same feelings and I can tell you for sure, “it’s not so damn funny after all!”
Day in and day out all I want to do is stay at home and ponder my existence. I sit like the true granny that I am and knit or crochet, starting a project with great enthusiasm only to discard it at the end of one week and begin another. Am I crazy, or what? I even have terrible writer’s block because my sense of humour has gone and left me to hibernate the winter away. My friends are all freaking out because I’m so quiet and my mother is convinced that I have some or other rare disease that’s robbing me of my usual vitality. I think they all worry far too much, it’s just a little of everything that has happened these past two years catching up on me and all I needed was a little time to think and brood.
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why life has to be so hard, and I ask myself questions like, “why does this crap always happen? Why do we have to go through this? What did we do to deserve this? When are we ever going to get a break? Why do we always have infinite challenges? Why can’t life be a piece of cake?
I guess that I should accept the fact that on some days I’m the pigeon and on other days I’m the damn statue and that the only person holding me back is me!
So I reckon that the time has come to shake off the cobwebs, come out of my torpid state and rejoin the world out there. (At least it’s a bit warmer now!) Yes Sir, I’m a happy “full-cup” person, an optimist and a joker. That’s exactly how I am going to feel from now on, like a twenty-year old with twenty-nine years of invaluable experience!
So to keep me in a positive mood I shall paste this very wise verse on my wall and read it whenever necessary.
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit…
By all means pray, and don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
God’s hidden gift in the clouds of doubt.
You never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So trust in the Lord
When you’re hardest hit…
It’s when things go wrong
That you must not quit!
~ Author Unknown ~
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Date created: 2008-07-17
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