MUSINGS FROM MIDLIFE
My Stories
The Sweep
"Sometimes there is nothing you can do but let it rain and wait for the sunshine."
Attending an interview for my Masters with a person in Sydney, she wanted to understand what stage 4 restrictions were like. Got to love a social worker. She told me another student had said it was like having Eeyore hanging around all the time.
I laughed. Well nearly spat my coffee, not the thing to do in an interview.
With a seed germinating for a blog I got thinking about that gloomy donkey, rarely in a positive frame of mind with a bleak outlook on life. He is known for saying, “things could be worse.
The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you did not stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognised as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.