An Interesting Week

It has indeed been an interesting week for me. 

My return to the world of work is proceeding relatively smoothly.  It has been busy though and fairly strenuous.  A lot of semi-repetitive lifting, and moving heavy cartons.  In a way I love it though, I am helping to support my partner and it is good exercise, better than I would get sitting in an office all day.

A good friend of mine also ended up in hospital last week, but is now home and recovering from surgery.  As always with these experiences, while being in pain and feeling your body recover is never fun, these experiences often allow us to see who really cares about us, by visiting and spending time with us, and by making sure our physical recovery is also matched by our mental recovery, something I learned about first hand after a stay in hospital myself a couple of years ago which was followed by what was basically a nervous breakdown.  I am in a much better place now, but only thanks to the love and support I received from my darling Sue (thanks my love).

Anyway, I suppose that is a tangent, but one I intended to take.  It's just been brought home to me that events can make us open our eyes and see things (and people) in a different light.  As people we need to change, evolve, grow, mature, all that sort of thing, or else we get stuck, we get trapped, and before we know it ten or twenty years have gone by and nothing has really changed for us, but the world moves on and we get left behind, stuck in the same attitudes and mentality that we have carried for decades, and suddenly unwilling and unable to move forward and grow as people, or maybe sometimes just too frightened, holding on tight because we are scared of losing things, and in that action we lose everything we hold dear and end up a pale shadow, a ghost, an echo of the past.