Thank
you for the extended Cherished blogfest – I was happy to see this invitation in
my inbox, from Dan Antion, and was glad to make a
post and connect with so many other bloggers who are inspiring through their posts.
This post is part of the Cherished Blogfest, that is hosted by Damyanti Biswas, Dan Antion, Cheryl Pennington, Peter Nena, Sharukh Bamboat, Mary Giese, and Kate Powell, Paul Ruddock, it is open to
anyone who wants to tell the world about something or someone they cherish. If
you want to join us, click here. The blogfest is open until Midnight Sunday.
I cherish this lovely
laminated card made by my daughter Maria Dorothy when she was just 12 years old
and presented to me on my birthday in the year 2013. Since then I have hid this in my files and
whenever I feel like looking at this J
I take this out from my files and keep smiling at this lovely gift.
I admire the effort
she took in picking up different photos from our family album, and with great
excitement brought a cake and celebrated my birthday, which brought tears to my
eyes. I never expected my little daughter to have grown up so fast and to take
this initiative of making me happy.
The year 2013 was a
time I was just recovering from the loss of my son Mario Emmanuel who passed away at the age
of 7 in January 2011. A difficult feeling to deal with – grief… and for one whole year I took up swimming in
the campus everyday in all seasons beginning from summer, rainy, winter and
then continued to beat my depression. I
was still in the process of getting healed as my son occupied the centre of my
life and to lose him suddenly was shocking and the least expected.
In view of which I did
not celebrate my birthday the consecutive years – and like a fresh breeze in my
life my daughter who was in class 5 at the time of his death, held me and
looking at her innocent face and her sweet smile I fought with myself to let go
of my painful memories of my son and move on, in order to do justice for her
existence in our lives.
“Tears
which last a lifetime speak for the most cherished memories made.”
My daughter was a
constant reminder for me to live in the moment, responding to her needs helped
me cope with the most difficult phase of my life. I found that she was also
missing her brother and struggling to deal with his absence – probably her way
of distracting herself was to immerse in coloring and creatively working on the
computer and creating this beautiful card.
This card brought a
smile on my face and turned my grief into gratitude.
Thank you for reading my post and would love to connect with you all and would love to know what is the favorite object you cherish.
