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Written by Faisel
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:37 |
Hi All,
This is not the normal blog ..... but ........ Welcome back to the blogroll .....
It has dawned on me that we are lacking some basic knowledge of childrens fairy tales and personalities at Cell-Life, and as a result of this, I would like to know everyones favourite. It shocked me that Shoes did not know about the "Little Hero of Haarlem", that the Vicker hadnt heard of Spike Milligan (no guys... not the movie director... thats Spike Lee) and that Tank had not heard of Ebenezer Scrooge (even though he was named after him). Have we been struck down by the imagination virus? im sure all of us had the data on our hard drives ( ... im talking about the one on your shoulders...) and the memories of our childhoods have been slowly but surely erased by adulthood .... Lets all go back to the times when girls were "yuck" and 30 was old, and relive the great stories of generations gone by ... sigh ... you cant write a sentence without ambiguity these days... ladies... Im not talking about the TV program on SABC 3!!!!
That being said, it would be terrible to rant and rave without doing what we do best ... and that is .... to blog ... I guess before we go any further lets pay the bills ... this BLOG is brought to you by Cell-Life. Right! That would have done even Coca Cola proud, so lets get on with it.....
Lately Ive been feeling a bit weird. Im not a sentimental person or emotional... and I usually treat things with an air of "thats life". But this past week Ive been feeling a host of strange emotions. When asked if I was going to vote, I originally said "NO", that I had lost interest and that it doesnt make a difference. I attributed this to not being an idealistic teenager anymore, with my life being run by logic and not emotion. However, I felt genuinely disappointed when I got to my voting station, where I had cast my vote for the past elections, to be turned back for not being on the registration list. Yet I had voted in all the previous elections! I felt gutted that my opinion would not be counted this time round, but thats life I guess....
Then theres also the recent losses in my extended family. Last week alone, I had to attend 3 funerals of people that had had enough of this world.... ok... 80 yrs old is a good innings, and I was ranting and raving with my mother that these deaths had just caused me inconvenience. But yesterday I sat down and thought about one of those people in particular, a dear old lady (my granny's cousin) who always allowed me and my friends to spend holidays at their place ... who let me use the rubberduck, even though her husband would moan afterwards, who had time for me, even though I was a troubled youth .... who I had forgotten about and barely visited in the last 6 years since her husband's passing. I remembered spending lots of time during school holidays at her home, playing in the garden, going to the jetty to fish .... looking for clams and other creatures under rocks on the beach across the road..... always having lots of tea and cakes whenever I came .... spending time with my grandmother .... who would generally be the reason we'd visit ..... and when I grew older .... spending time on the beach catching a good dose of vitamin D, smoking pot in the park next to the house, cajoling with the girl-next-door .... but always feeling good about my visit, as it made my granny happy to have someone available to drive her around to see family .....
I think its made me realise that Ive been existing the last couple of years... that I stopped living ... and just existed .... I realised that Ive neglected my Granny in the last couple years .... that Ive had less and less time for her .... that Ive let whats most important in my life be neglected in exchange for economic chains and shackles .....
Remembering university days ... all the fun in the world, flexi time, friends, sport ..... I was not interested in television much, nor was i interested in staying indoors and lazing on the couch .... i used to go OUT and have fun .... I WAS fun! Going to the stadiums to support the local teams or playing sport, having dinner nights at different friends' places, horse-riding, paragliding, bungee jumping, camping, hiking, surfing, taking a drive to nowhere.... just going for a drive.... spending friday nights at my granny's place with all my cousins and siblings (we are a very small family - I have 3 cousins) .... driving around with my granny .... feeling good because I was making her happy .... I know Im losing it now, but I just want us all to think about that which is important in our lives and to do the best we can to hold onto those things ............ before its too late....
So the passing of an old lady has been the dawn of my new existence. In fact, Im going to pop in at my granny's place tonight and see if I can take her anywhere for the weekend ... spend a bit of time ... make her happy ..... before I never get the chance to do so again ....... I implore everyone who reads this blog to pick up the phone, call up your folks or your grandparents ... visit an aunt .... do something .... dont say "I'll visit when she dies" and when that person is gone you are overwhelmed with regret ...... but the most important part ladies and gentlemen ... dont do it as a once-off .... do it often .....
My life reboots today ..... its truly the awakening .....
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