After some fun been had playing in the Sandbox, I think, it is time...time for the real update...Scrolling back through my legacy, it occurred to me that just like DearDiary itself, I also have anniversary coming up. In about three weeks time Misstick will be...20 years old!!! Yes, that's right. While I've also been journaling here for some time before, the account of Miss Tick was created on 16th of August 2004...How come I don't feel that old virtually and certainly do feel so much older in reality than I actually am in real life?! Btw, even though the above may give an impression I'm talking of my real age, I am nowhere near 20 in real life, not even close to pretend, I am almost 3 times over...
But we are here, in virtual world, everything is possible, so why be older when you can be young again? 😉 On that cheerful note, let us be done with the cheer for now, got a bit of catching up to do first...it is a journal, after all and a journal is a place where the records of one's lifetimes stored...
So, at little bit of Ketch Up here - Fast Forward Back...Last time I said something here was in 2021...it was all about Pandemic and about my mother becoming bedbound after the stroke. Nothing else to add to this, it was not the easiest years to live, physically and mentally, working from home and looking after my mom, especially during lockdowns...but we survived through that, so now I can pretentiously say "no big deal"...My mother lived 4.5 years after her stroke and died last September...In many ways I felt relieved for her, almost glad that her endurance of such a low quality of life came to the end. I also feel somewhat content that in her last 12 years of life that she spent with me, I did all I possible could to make her happy and comfortable and, apart from the post-stroke years, the rest were her happiest...I stayed with her to the last breath. Literally...holding her hand, saying my love...I would say this much and won't be covering more of it...it is still sore...almost a year later and I'm still in a state of a New Beginning. I've been there before...few times...somehow all my new beginnings tend to begin after pretty bad endings...every time I have to find my new self...new life...new values...new attitude...here we go again...
That was a brief "previously in life..." overview, out of the way...and switching back to the Now...
and in the Now we've got things happening all around, as the planet gradually coming out of lockdowns of all sorts, mostly, mental...while we are way past the Covid and some kids might not even remember the experience, being toddlers at a time, I still believe Covid has a lot to answer for...I am noticing how my friends changed their approach to life...the priorities altered...well, they did for me, for sure...But, I suppose, these would be a theme for more musings in future...Let me finish this one on a bright side - I have great hope that DD resurrection will become a trigger that pushes forward, that inspires to be kind to yourself and to the World...and to keep finding things worth sharing...
she raises her glass with a toast to Many More Anniversaries To Come...🥂