Great Expectations: Weekly Writing Challenge
I used to have expectations. Now, I expect little, but am grateful for anything that falls my way. If I wake up and am not in severe pain … if I can breathe in and out without coughing and choking. Finding Garry breathing softly beside me.
The future will have to take care of itself. Being alive and being with those I love is the center of the world. Given one thing and another, most of the things I used to want or expect seem trivial. Even nonsensical. Certainly meaningless.
Being alive, being loved, breathing air and having a future as a living person? That’s meaningful. The rest is commentary.
And that’s how I feel today. Ask me the same question again in a few weeks or months — and I know you will — and maybe I’ll feel entirely different. It’s magic!
AS WE TURN THE CORNER TOWARD APRIL’S END … 
DAWDLING IN THE GARDEN 
THE BEST CAREER ADVICE 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
That was lovely Marilyn. I really loved it. Hope you are recovering well.
Leslie
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I’m healing — a little better each day. Slowly and I am not a very patient person, but I have to BE patient regardless. Right now, I’ve hit the itching phase. A lot of incisions. A LOT of itching!! It sort of mixes with the pain … an interesting cocktail 🙂
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Itching is a good sign.
Leslie
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Itching can drive one to madness, you know. Really. It can. It is very difficult to ignore.
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I hear you. The only compensation is that it does indicates healing.
Leslie
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True and it is less itchy today. Yay.
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You are right!
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These near-death experiences have a way a rearranging ones priorities 🙂
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‘Tis true, when you go through some serious times, only the little and simple things start to really matter anymore. I hear ya on this one, friend!
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Resets ones priorities 🙂
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the big things are nice, but the simple things are more meaningful.
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And generally more affordable 🙂
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Or, even better, free!
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Free is my fave 🙂
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Yes, this makes a lot of sense to me, Marilyn – and, as you say, the rest is commentary. I think that’s a really useful concept actually: it pinpoints the extent to which our lives are run by the incessant chittering in our minds! The inner commentary! xxx
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It probably also shows that we’ve been through enough crap to realize what’s really important. Being alive is important. If you have that, you can figure out the rest!
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