Message in a bottle

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
Some are not. When I think about people that are not here anymore, I guess I feel like I missed the opportunity to say how much they meant to me or to be in their lives what I could have been.
Remembered my granparents, my father, and people that may be gone but somehow alive, playing dead.
I could have stayed longer with my grandmother, played Monopoly many more times with my father or just simply avoided mistakes.
But it is ok, my life veered off course and here I am, more mature, with two beautiful and lovely kids in this amazing island with this message in a bottle.

Washing off

I was leaving the office when I realized it was raining....
Not that strong so a couple of blocks to my house would not kill me...
So then, when it was too late to come back,the rain became quite heavy.
After using all the curse words I know in french and english,I decide to let the rain wash me out and wash off what I wanted to leave behind.
It took me to the point of having even my underwears wet, but when I got home I was clean, feeling brand new.....

J for Joy

Later that day I got to thinking about the joy of being part of someone's life and history.
That's the real legacy we have in this life.
It took me a long run to realize who the f* I am.Now I am sure.
I'm replacing the F for Fear for by the J for Joy.

Then I found that little black box full of dreams in the back of my drawers...
The box is open....

F for fun or F for fear?

I had a fool's confidence
That the world had no boundaries
But instincts and common sense
Come in different quantities

extract from Sally's Pigeons - Cyndi Lauper

My mind...

"The mind, once stretched by an empowering idea,
can never fully shrink to its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes