Have To Do Damage Control

 

Sunday -- Beautiful mixed sunny cloudy morning of late October. It is cold zero degree. After having breakfast I was at my deck to have a feel of the outside atmosphere. I was not dressed up for that much cold so decided to enjoy my tea in my room. We have to be careful for our health, specially at our age. Not good to be burden for our kids.

A night before, I had very disturbed sleep. I was able to have some sleep after three in the morning and woke up at six. Anyway things happen. We are Humans not robot. It is normal, we will have some ups and downs, while  passing through the cycle of our life.. 

My youngest sister is in Retirement home in Chicago. She is not doing well, not even picking phone calls for long. Her daughter messaged me that she might be shifted to Nursing home. 

We Humans are full of emotions. What is going around, affect our routine life. Our Brain works like power house, keeps on controlling checks and balances of all the emotional accounts to maintain our physical well being. But some emotional damages work like drastic turmoil. Our emotional equilibrium goes off. Things get out of control, our routine gets disturbed. 

I think my brain was not able to handle all that. It is going to be a big shift in my sister's life and for her health situation. She is my baby sister. So many related matters got stuck in the back of mind. I was not able to get out of all that. It takes time to settle down emotional turmoil. 

This is life. Travelling through the unpaved path of our life, we come across various events, have to face unavoidable situations too. We have to carry on our journey anyway. I went to lake, got coffee and banana nuts muffin for damage control. We have to balance things out. 

It is 10.15, I am in my room. My computer is on, my daughter, the middle one is here, on video call, from Grimsby. These are rare moments. She usually make audio calls. I also prefer Audio calls. We can do multitasking while picking calls. But sometimes it is good to have face to face. You can enjoy the body language and also able to relate to what is going on, at the other end. 

My daughter had to go. It is already afternoon at her place, in England. She has plans to do some gardening and after that dinner preparation. We have to value whatever time our kids be able to spend with we parents. They have their own family matters to get busy. We have to appreciate and admire them. It  matters a lot. We can make or break our relationships. We have to choose our words and have to be careful with our gestures, while talking to the person at the other end.

It is beautiful view from my window. Trees dressed up in various shades of yellow and orange costumes, looking great. It is quiet and still atmosphere. No activity on my front garden. Looks sort of portrait picture from God for we humans, to admire the beauty and glamour of Nature. Life is good. No complaints.