I'm currently on a learning disability rotation, and there's this activity, which I'm sure alot of people are familiar with - WORD ASSOCIATION. It is one of those excercises whereby the facilitator shows the patient/subject a picture of something or lists a series of items (animate/inanimate/ abstract or otherwise), and they're supposed to say the first thing they think of or what they associate the picture with. This activity is 'supposed' to give a glimpse of the inner workings of one's mind.... I'm skeptical! However, this is what I had come up with:
Child: The best age to be
Book: Parallel universe
Food: Mum's cooking
Baseball bat: Anger management
Music: Smile
Movie: Wishful thinking/ A safe place
Grass: Simplicity
Dogs: Doogie and Tiger
Clouds: Secondary 2
North: Massacheusettes
Future: Present
Imagination: A hazardous but most precious gift
Solitude: Genius
Life: Enigma
Friends: Man or Myth?
Love: Mum and Dad and Mark
Soul: Perfection
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Monday, January 02, 2006
hello/goodbye
It's 12.44am, the 2nd of January, 2006 and in 13 hours I will find myself once again air bound for Glasgow. Its been an amazing Christmas holiday despite it's berevity. But as they say, all good things must come to an end. Caught up with and laughed my face to a bluey hue with old friends. Hung out mum and dad, ate wholesome, REAL, home cooked Indian food,vegetated in front of the television .....and not forgetting of course literally rolled around in the grass with my dogs.ABSOLUTE BLISS!!
My two weeks here at home have vaporized before my very eyes.... it was more like a transit than a holiday.
You come, you go... people come, people go.... one year flows into another...nothing is forever.
George Harrison said it best - All Things Must Pass..... the ultimate epitaph in my opinion.
But that's just life isn't it, everything is and always will be in this inevitable state of constant flux. Just when you think you're settling in, the rug's pulled off right from under you and you find yourself at the beginning of another chapter in this story of your life. Does change and adaptation get any easier the more times you go through it...sort of like a desensitization process?? Does it get any easier as your age ripens??
For my sake I'd like to hope that it does, but I'm pessimistic at that prospect.
The one thing there is to look forward to I suppose, is that there's always a chance for a fresh start, a new beginning, a better today than yesterday, given that our hearts are still hopeful and our souls are not jaded.
So another year has gone by, my holidays at home have come to a close, I will miss 2005 but I will not forget all the wonderful surprises, amazing adventures and valuable lessons that life dealt out to me that year.
My two weeks here at home have vaporized before my very eyes.... it was more like a transit than a holiday.
You come, you go... people come, people go.... one year flows into another...nothing is forever.
George Harrison said it best - All Things Must Pass..... the ultimate epitaph in my opinion.
But that's just life isn't it, everything is and always will be in this inevitable state of constant flux. Just when you think you're settling in, the rug's pulled off right from under you and you find yourself at the beginning of another chapter in this story of your life. Does change and adaptation get any easier the more times you go through it...sort of like a desensitization process?? Does it get any easier as your age ripens??
For my sake I'd like to hope that it does, but I'm pessimistic at that prospect.
The one thing there is to look forward to I suppose, is that there's always a chance for a fresh start, a new beginning, a better today than yesterday, given that our hearts are still hopeful and our souls are not jaded.
So another year has gone by, my holidays at home have come to a close, I will miss 2005 but I will not forget all the wonderful surprises, amazing adventures and valuable lessons that life dealt out to me that year.
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