For the past few days I
have been wearing a dead watch. I was so attached to it and used to feel empty
without my watch in my hand. So after I lost my setting knob while swimming, I
decided to keep it on my hand for a while longer.
Wearing a dead watch has
its repercussions
Its funny wearing a watch
for people to see you have a watch & yet you are trying to conceal its face
from the same people so that nobody would ask you the time.
So it was while in church
today that I decided not to conceal the watch, for in any case everyone had
clocks all over the walls telling of the time.
It then dawned on me that
as much as I wanted to keep on wearing this watch,
It would not rise from the
dead,
It will not tell the time
again,
It will not play my
favourite ticking lullaby to send me to sleep,
It will no longer amaze
the crowds by the poolside & by the beach who always screamed to get me
remove it. (They did not know it was resistant)
It will no longer attract
the wonderful smiles of the ladies in the office.
It will no longer glitter
in the hot sun in the deserts of the North,
I will no longer spend my
precious time polishing it as I polish my ‘hoe’.
I will never raise my arm
again for this particular watch.
Many Nevers. . .
Its not about the Watch or
about the Nevers. Its about the life we live.
Many are the times we live
in the past, holding onto things that long expired.
Holding onto them for one
reason or another
Fearing the unknown,
fearing the future. . .
The Watch that stopped
ticking,
The Friendship that long
ended,
The Relationship that long
ended,
The Friend or family who
passed on,
The Phone that got
snatched on River road,
The HELB you spent raving,
The Job you lost,
The Opportunity that by
passed you,
In the shops are other
watches better than the one I used to wear,
Some one is out there
looking for a friend like you,
Next door is your
neighbour, the girl you always ignored maybe you future wife,
In the job market is a
career waiting for you, better than the one you just dropped,
Tomorrow is another day
full of opportunities you cannot exhaust.
If we keep on Dwelling in
the past, Life will always be a Tight Coffin for us,
Its up to us to Work
towards Moving on, Soldiering on and Focusing on the future,
For its in the future that
life belongs, the brighter we envision the future. . .
The Brighter the Future
will Be!
All The Best 2011.
Hi. Same Old Drama, Different Day. This blog is about me and others, nature, life, blah blah and why everything I like is great even the hurting - still great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, Well. . . You are probably right..
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