To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
Monday, June 10, 2019
 

My family will be here to visit me this week! I am excited, thrilled, overjoyed… basically I don’t know what to do with myself for now! :) It is also my niece’s birthday this week and the idea is to celebrate it together in London… as if I needed an icing on this already scrumptious cake… but there it is! :)
I don’t know if my blog posts will become more frequent or less… remains to be seen… I am not much of a ‘travel’ writer… it just doesn’t seem to come naturally to me… and I’m going to have fewer abstract thoughts now when the concrete ones are so delightful, that’s for sure ;)
I chanced upon a quote today that captures my feelings very well on some unexpected but positive developments that occurred in the last 2-3 weeks:
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred…. Unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” ~ Goethe
I was grappling with a certain situation over the last two or more years that was severely hindering me and was also making me wonder if I had chosen the right path after all. I was trying my best to remain positive through it all and persevere at my goals without letting the shadow of this situation affect me too much (which was difficult to say the least because I couldn’t see myself moving out of this shadow). I had almost lost hope of things getting better when lo and behold! almost magically or out of the blue the situation got fixed for me in a way that I could never have engineered myself and it occurring all on its own seems like a gift from providence…almost like a reward for my determination to plod on in spite of the thorns thrown in my path.
There have been many times in my life when I have felt like providence was watching over me… observing if I really wanted something badly enough to work very hard for it… throwing challenges my way to see how I rose up to them… and only when it seemed like I had proved myself enough… it would swoop in and bless me in a way that I did not have to prove myself any more… it was smooth sailing then on… I have to admit that having intuited these patterns before I harboured a hope that something unexpectedly good would happen when I least expected it… because I had been working hard enough…I had been put through many trials by fire… but it was so long in the coming that I almost lost hope…I lost faith that providence really does come to one’s aid in the end… and now when it did… I was surprised but not surprised, if you know what I mean? Hmm… well, let’s hope the smooth sailing bit also holds ;) Shall keep you, my dear readers, posted of course!

posted by Sylvia D'souza at 6:50 am 0 comments
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