For sure.
For so many of us.
Newly-married people. N00b-Earthling-rearing people. Single people. Mingling people. Committed relationship people. Constructs-beyond-definition people.
Your 2008 was all about travel, epiphanies, discoveries, major milestones, messing-up, doh!-forehead-smack s, loves, losses, newness, learning, changing, life-getting, brain-using, creating, destroying, beginnings, endings, more opposites and juxtapositions etcetera etcetera.
And then there was, in no particular chronological order; burning foreigners, madness in Mumbai, load-shedding, horrible crimes and angry tears, bloodless coups and we get a new president and health minister, bail-outs, Zimbabwe had a mindfuck of an election(wait, there was an election?), they switched on the LHC and then it broke or something, the US got their audacity to hope, Somali pirates don’t say ‘Arrr’ apparently, Trevor’s getting married, will you COPE?, The Rand gets a drubbing, Bush ducked the now legend Size 10’s, Satan holidays in Gaza and civilians are incinerated in their beds, etcetera etcetera.
Some year eh?
I went and got married, and yeah, life tends to change just a tad when you do that.
Somewhere between fate and free-will, it happened. Beyond the febrile caricatures of what we thought it meant to love to the real deal of not being able to imagine a life without the grocery lists, the saturday morning errands, the socks on the floor, the waking up to your completion made manifest beside you; snoring and kicking your shins.
And it’s just so much to feel sometimes, yet it’s only just a scratch off of what is to come.
It’s fucking beautiful and I am so so so grateful to the Almighty for where I’m at.
Happy fat included.
Muharram Mubarak, Love and Prayers to all, especially the bereaved, the abused, the oppressed. Amandla.
an all round MUBARAK from me 🙂
hope the year brings memories and happenings in a good way for all of us.
So, hows 09 so far?
My first day back at work was productive. I used the stairs instead of the lifts and took my full lunch break.
Now if I can keep this up I’ll be less inclined to slice into some people’s eyeballs with sharp paper edges.
that is the first time i’ve ever seen the word “febrile”. still with the makingupwordsthing…sigh
ps. happy fat does not go away. not even almost two years down the line. i know. guess it means i’m still happy 😀
Muharram Mubarak…and a happy and blessed ’09.
Like I said on MJ’s post…I feel a revolution of sorts coming on and this is our time to LIVE. Happy living 🙂
lol @ Somali pirates.
Muharram mubarak & happy new year to you too 🙂
…and sometimes people don’t act like humans… 😛
wishing you awesomeness in progress in 2009
muharram kareem, too..