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Published: August 27th 2013
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It's a small world, after all .... It's a small world, after all..... It's a small, small world! Well, if you believe the disney song .... but, it's all a matter of perspective. Sometimes it's too big and other times tiny and insignifcant, and then there are times that you cross time zones in a couple of weeks and feels like something in between.
The reverse culture shock, after arriving in London made me laugh. All of a sudden seeing all of these "foreigners" in one space in all their different shapes and sizes. But, within an hour of arriving, familarity kicked in, and after an evening of spritzers with sally jones, by the time I arrived in Oxford, I was struggling to remember that I actually live in Malaysia.
It took me an evening, and a long conversation with Maritza, to stop "battling" about where I physically live and relax into being "home", which certainly wasn't about the dreamy spires or the lovely pubs I frequented, but about the people there. Home is where the love is! (and tom bevan's house .. as he continues to take me in 😉
And speaking of love ... this is
the perfect time to introduce Amelia! Che bellissima! So, I got to meet and spend a lot of time with Maritza and Dave's wee bundle of joy. She was particularly good in that she would smile for me on demand 😊 I took her for her first beer .... am starting the "zia" duties in the way I mean to continue 😊
......... that part was written on the night of my return from the UK, before lack of sleep set in and sent me to bed ... i guess it's appropriate that I pick it back up today, because ......... "today, in the whole history of the world ... it's my birthday" (quote from best film that nick showed me, about the guy that needs to find some shoes .. can't remember the title, but no doubt viv is in tears by now at the mention of it) 😉
appropriate, cos birthdays are good for one thing ....... love ....... getting messages and texts and facebooks from loads of people that we pick up on our journey through life and that take that opportunity (amongst others) to share love.
it's particularly poignant for me today ...
Ian and marra by the flower that always bloom at the right timebecause ... this (in the whole history of the world) .. is the suckiest birthday I have ever had! 😊 Yep ... I'm sitting in a hotel room, all by myself, (not) celebrating another year in the life of sarah, all by myself! 😉
combined with a day where EVERYTHING that could go wrong, DID! Truly ... it all did! and so i put on my best "feel sorry for myself face" and seethed at the world around me! of course, there were a few moments that disrupted my perfected seething and momentarily (involuntarily) made me smile, but I made sure I went back to seething pretty quickly afterwards.
......and then ..... i realised the seething face wasn't very pretty and wasn't doing much to "add" to my non-birthday (except for negative-looking face wrinkles ... gotta think about these things at my new age) 😊 So .... I stopped that and started looking at the fact that although, I'm physically alone in my hotel room, there isn't actually one moment that I've been alone today, as I've received messages, what's apped conversations, facebooked, spoken to people on the phone and skyped home. So, thank you all, for joining
me in my (non) celebrations today 😊
I guess the last thing that I want to mention is that, when I was home my wee cousin Jamie Abba (Jabba) died. Jamie was a beautiful, loving boy and it's tragic that he isn't around to continue sharing the love he had, cos he had such a positive impact on so many people's lives. For myself, I never saw enough of the boy, though I have snapshots of him throughout his life, in times that I popped up in Scotland .... a reminder in itself, that I need to get to Scotland more. My love and thoughts are with all the family. Since then, a lot has been happening in ecclefechan and it's big and it's sad ... it's not about wrongs or rights or sides ...... and perhaps with more love and understanding, that wee village and everyone in it, can start to find their way through it.
This blog started out as impressions of me walking in and out of enviornments I live in. It turned into something different.... which again, is a reminder that the size of the world, and our interactions in it, are always a
matter of perspective.
Kia Kaha everyone! Stand strong!
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