I worked with people I thought were alright. I quit back in December. I actually liked the job too, I just thought it was time. I didn't burn any bridges or anything. Anyway, you know how many former colleagues contacted me since? How many people tried to stay in touch? NONE. ZERO. Now going through the horrors of job hunting (which I idiotically thought my experience and education would make a breeze this time around) and thinking if I was dead I doubt anyone would even notice for years.
I get so frustrated when I politely tell someone at nearly any till "I would lik a _____ with ______, to go, please". Then they look at the screen and instantly forget what I just told them. At the end, they ask "for here or to go?".
Once I saved more money than I ever had to go traveling with my partner. They almost dragged me to a yoga commune ran by an exiled sex offender but decided I wasn't "spiritual enough" and left me behind in Vancouver.
There is no such thing as luck, for some of us.
As things heat up you don't want to be anywhere else on earth....be thankful!
and I would recommend emigrating as stuff keeps on deteriorating and people are just like "Thats' how it is!". Meanwhile, everyone but Canadians win.
As Vancouver sweats through the next few days there are few among us who have not paused to admire the sky mountain sea and landscape in the last few months as we look up from our phones and computers etc. No one has to say hey isn't it gorgeous but we are all thinking it and living it. Sometimes it feels like we are all on the same wavelength enjoying the summer cool breeze in our hair as we ride our bikes in the bike lanes zipping past gridlocked traffic.
About the possibility of the afterlife now that I'm well into my sunset years.
I always dismissed it as a religious construct, clickbait for the great unwashed.
But now I get a wonderful kind of peace in the thought that souls who are intertwined in this life , souls that love and respect one another, have the possibility of being intertwined throughout eternity.
I don't know where it's come from as I've never been a religious person, you couldn't find anyone more dismissive of organized religion.
But it's arrived and it's a very comforting ideology to be able to face the loss of someone you love dearly , the loss of relatives and close friends , and believe that you will be rejoined with them in some magical fusion in the great beyond.
Science can explain the mechanics of the Universe but it can't unlock the reason we are here.
You died on a cloudless day. For the past 10 years every time there is a cloudless day I feel you are responsible and hanging out with me. You have been with me lots this summer and I love the feeling. Especially today as it is your birthday. Love you forever Mom.
Where you see someone walking towards you and you both pretend not to see each other and the first one to blink and get out of the way loses?
