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by PAM
I thought I'd never outgrow the child-like feeling of anticipation and excitement, looking forward to unwrapping gifts in this season of gift-giving and merry-making... but I did! Now, I wish for nothing else but some "me-time" during the holidays... gifts are good, but I prefer quality time for much-needed rest.
It's been a really, really exhausting year! I cannot even begin to look back to the past 11 months without cringing over that challenging roller coaster ride of 2013! I don't think there is a word to describe the exhaustion that I feel right now. No matter how profound the inspiration to offer one's time and self to meet the challenges, it is unfortunate that the body is not immune to 'wear and tear'. Since last week, I basically am just languishing through the days, just wishing for the year to be over soon, with the thoughts of the coming holiday and the cheers it brings as my inspiration to keep going.
Yep, dude, I'm so looking forward to the holidays when I could just sleep in... think of nothing but give my tired bones and 'battered' body and mind some rest. I'm so looking forward to a few 'slow days' when I could just wake up at 8:00 in the morning and drink my coffee lazily as I watch our furry bundle of cute antics does his thing. I am so looking forward to spending hours in a rocking chair under our mango tree, just
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| "Me-time" is leisurely reading time. Oy, what a great time! |
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Two months ago, I celebrated Alice Munro's win of the Nobel Prize in Literature. I've always been a big fan of hers. I love her works - the simple words, crocheted into an alluringly beautiful story that unknowingly draws one into a maze that is the intricacies of human nature, engages one to relate his/her own understanding of himself/herself with Ms. Munro's views as if the story she was telling was the reader's own story, and coming out of it with much amazement.
Early this year, I bought a 2009 Alice Munro paperback, "Too much happiness", that I meant to read during summer. It is a compilation of 10 short stories. Yep, I could get as sentimental as buying paperback even when I maintain a 'relationship' with my iPad. :) Anyway, summer 2013 passed, and I only managed to read one short story! Not even Ms. Munro could weave a web of great imagination that could hold me in a momentary blissful trance that only reading literary works could do... that's how extremely busy 2013 had been. :( Nevertheless, I'm still
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| Holiday theme: making quality time to appreciate this 'borrowed time' more. |
This holiday season, I have the 'perfect' gift to myself - read the Munro book in its entirety! :) Of course, I intend to finally 'devour' my Thor comics as well - even get "The Dark world" DVD if it's already available - and, spend time reading those articles on The Economist that I missed during the last three months or so, and feast on a few 'camera tricks' with my photography stuff, too, if I could get some more "bonus" time. :) Hopefully, the body could recuperate enough to enable the mind and heart to find ways to give more in 2014.
Yep, I am so looking forward to have some much deserved (man, I hope so!) "me-time" during the holidays. Uh-huh, it's feeling a lot like Christmas already! :)
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