But it's all we've got and I guess we've just to make the best of it - and thank goodness - we can, and most of us do just that, at least most of the time. And for the rest, well, we just do what we can to survive and hope for the best. That black demon gets to all of us, at times, and then we just have to work it out for ourselves, somehow, and mostly, we come out of it, more-or-less intact?
Thank goodness!!
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| dining out at a local Pie place |
This week's birthdays, to date, have included too many of course to recall altogether, but, notably, David Bowie and the Duchess of Cambridge, long lost friends and family and, mine too. Usually I find this week very trying, personally; expectation, excitement and disappointment filling my hours with equal intensity. But this year it's been different. A sense of wholeness and completeness has filled my hours. Actually, Christmas was like that too. Instead of the usual, seemingly, fleeting experience of good cheer, reverence, holiness, familial things, presents, food, wine and the glory of Christmas decorations and our beautiful Christmas trees, that same sense of joy unbounded and completeness has been all mine to enjoy and experience, and there's been no feeling of bereft-ness, no desperately holding onto those swiftly passing hours, no angst or sadness for the parting from kith and kin. Instead, a definite and total sensation of a new beginning, of hope for the future just ahead, and for distant future yet to be known.
I have no detailed reasons for these feelings, which I have known and experienced this year, and why this year; however it's happened, it's not important and I'm not fretting over the whys and wherefores right now, just thankful it's been so.
I hope you too, dear reader, have experienced the good things which Christmas brings to us, one way or the other, and the good feelings which remain with us because of Christmas.
Happy New Year .......
Daisy
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