24 words for 2007
So Sayeth Blogger Meg Pickard of meish.org:
The Mayfly Project
At the end of every year since 2000
, we invite readers to look back on
the last twelve months of their lives and reflect on what has been
important, defining or constant during that particular year, and then
sum their year up in just 24 words.
I did one last year and, with a gentle nudge from a friend, have revisited the exercise for 2007:
I wrote that all in one go, thought about tweaking it, then realized it was perfectly 24 words on the first try. Yes, other things happened in 2007 (I saw some friends, got a job, watched a best friend get married, learned how to make paper and some other stuff), but the underlying current--and sometimes the tsunami at hand--was always the loss of my mother and trying to make sense of life without her.
This is not something I ever suspect I'll be successful at, but it's my task all the same. Right now, I'm just focusing on not obsessing over the fact that there was less than 20 years difference between she and I and not letting the idea of only having 20 years to live paralyze me (20 more years is 2028: my brother will be 32, I'll have been married for 25 years, I'll be on my way to a half-century, but I know I'll be greedy enough to want more).
Obviously, I'm not even being successful at the relatively minor "not obsessing" task, eh?
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