Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Day 517 ‘Days of Wonder’




I remember a day of happiness from my childhood. Running home from school with great excitement and an overflowing desire wanting to tell mum about the praise I got for taking part in a poem reading competition. The sun was shining and the hot air chaperoned me through the streets to the place where mum worked. I remember shouting from a distance to her and waiving the cert being so proud for making her so proud of me, she must be proud I kept thinking when she hears what happened. And she pointed to someone, I did not see in my blinded joy of happiness: ‘You should still say hello whatever happened and be polite.’ And my joy in a split of a second has disappeared, it was not important any more, it was wrapped in a polite word and thrown into the deep see of feeling nothing, but nonsense. Many years passed, but the scene is still repeated when happiness follows me home and all I want is the joy to be shared, not halved.   

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