A new favorite blog! It’s written/photographed by a friend’s daughter. Their little girl is so adorable, I can’t take it. Inspiring me to post more of my Godson and play dress up with more of the little girls in my life.
Omg. That was soooo sweet, I couldn’t help shed a tear! I’m glad to have made a difference in your life. You certainly have in mine. You’re one of the few friends I have who always reminds me to realign myself with my real passions and I love you very much for that and more. :)
Irelis on Flickr.
Sometimes in life, you’re lucky enough to find a friend that really gets you.
This is Irelis. She is such a genuine, kind, lovely person. Whenever I’ve been down, she’s always found the right thing to say to put things in perspective.
The first time my mom went to the ICU and was in the hospital for weeks. The day I found out my mom had to start dialysis. When my husband started law school and our marriage was in trouble. Now, when things are so uncertain at work.
Yesterday she told me that I would do something better with my life and that it was time to move on. She sent me this quote:
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
So yes, what’s happening at work now is a shock treatment - but it will save me from death.
Irelis - you’re the best!
