Self-Mastery: Thoughts on Forever part 1
Is forever only a question of the heart? I have always related it to a promise… or to a love relationship… but then I guess, I have to dig deeper into that… " Sorting through memories means holding painful recollections in a certain way. But memory never copies the past, it brings the past into the potentially healing present ." ~an excerpt from Turn My Mourning Into Dancing by Henri J.M. Nouwen -----0------ I discovered that when my dad had our house rebuilt, it only had four rooms. He didn't have me in my mind because we both thought I'll stay inside the walls 'for all eternity.' After a decade, I landed back home and stayed in my sister's room. She was residing in another country and, like me, the thought of coming back home was not part of her plan. However, months before Christmas, she decided to take a ticket and spend time here for a while. I had a self-check and I knew that part of my stress (apart from MRT work ...