I was talking the other day, with a friend of my son’s
about the strange-ness of the times
we are experiencing
and just how it may be affecting many a life
in different ways
in this case young adults who felt they may have
begun in earnest
burgeoning careers, educations, adventures
plans for the immediate and
futures
only to have it all come to a rather unceremonious
halt
by circumstances way beyond anyone’s
control or for that matter
experience
has me thinking this morning, for some reason
of a time for me, as a young teenager
fifteen and subsequently sixteen
when unencumbered carefree days
were dramatically interrupted
by a need for separate operations on both of my hips
the uncertainties
talking with teachers regarding disrupted education
and how it all would work (or not)
a time when friends went on with life and
living
while you laid in traction, strung up to pulleys
dealing with bedsores
a time when a friend’s mother would travel
the distance to visit
but the friend, could think of better things to do
than to sit
in a somewhat uncomfortable environment
missing out
(understandable by teenage
standards)
a time when high school dances and activities went on
while you sat for the first time on the side of the bed
to get your bearings, supported by nurses
before the difficulties of
the simple act of learning to walk
again
a time when the constant presence of crutches
don’t much enhance one’s party
attire or the irresponsible, misadventurous need
to run
and when you have sufficiently shed yourself of the
bothersome things
it is just about time, to go back
for the second round
life is certainly altered and forever affected
by these sorts of interruptions
years that at times feel much like a blur
or a
blip to some
the many things that form, or rather
inform us
as to the nature of how very little of life’s unfolding
is in our control
and just how it is… we
deal
this again is one of the reasons I speak much
about kindness
as possibly we are always and forever
developing our sense of
self
our wings on the way down
as is said
paths in life are quite often travelled with much
uncertainty
that’s what makes it all the more comforting
to sometimes be met
with the understanding heart
of just one
kind
soul
I hope in these days, as well
in
offering it here
to always find myself counted
as one ♥