Sleepy Sunday

LOVE these kinda days... where there are no pressures, no chores to be done, nothing major, just... relaxation. I tried to finish all my research for one of my courses last night, and as a result was up till dawn. Went to bed around 6:30 AM, and woke up at 11:30 AM. Got out of bed at 1:30! Boy that sure was fun. Eyes barely opened, weird drunk sensation tickling somehow, plopped on the couch with Florence, while the two of us watched 'To Grandmother's House We Go', half yawning, half asleep, with hazy eyes. Managed to grab some food in the middle too. Off to bed again in a couple of hours. I'm tired.

Everyone is allowed a break every now and then.

Believe

We moved to our current house last year. The journey from the old house to this one was filled with many tears and sighs, for reasons I won't get into the depths of. After living a few months in this house, I started liking it. We have a small backyard and since we don’t do any gardening, it’s not in a good shape at all, but it surprisingly has a rose bush. It never produced any flowers for the entire last summer, so I reached to the conclusion that it's not a rose bush and I'm mistaking it for some other plant. But just a couple of months ago, two flowers appeared on it - roses! I would look at them everyday and hope they'd survive and the bush would produce more roses. Although it was only those two roses, they changed the whole outlook of the backyard. Upon stepping outside, the eye would only focus on those two roses and ignore all the weeds and other overgrown bushes. No other flower ever appeared on the bush again, but those two roses did surprising things for me – they gave me hope! If flowers can appear out of nowhere after so long, what can stop them from growing again? And if that can happen, what can stop good things from happening? Things happen on their own and everything has a fixed time of occurrence. “And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should” – Max Ehrmann.

Friendship

I think one of the many ways God showed us He cares about us was with the creation of cats. You come home from a long, hard day, and when your cat comes to greet you, you tend to forget about the problems and feel relaxed. A few months ago, I was very sad one night. I went out to the backyard to get some fresh air. It was late. I must have left the door open because right when I was about to burst into tears, Florence (the cat on the right) came out and brushed against my leg, and started circling around me. I patted her small cute little head for a few seconds and then she sat next to me. I didn't feel lonely anymore, and sometimes that's all it takes to change your perspective, in a good way...to know you're not alone. Just knowing you have a friend close by gives you the strength you need to face your problems with dignity. Epicures says, "It's not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." I couldn't agree with him more.