<a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/awakening/”>Awakening</a>
My 21 year old eyelids flutter open as skylarks chirrup in a far away place. Other sounds filter through the open window. A steady noise up higher in the sky, an easyJet passenger plane returning from Europe on the flight path faintly rumbles across the sky.
More gentle than a breeze, cool air moves across my naked shoulder like the lightest weight silk being drawn across it.
A closer bird, in the blossoming cherry tree in the garden below, sings a dawn chorus of clackety clacks.
Pheasants also stirring make that sudden ruffling to announce their presence, then a squawk in nearby fir woods.
I think about the night before; the lantern of conversation between us flickering softly, at first.
Always there for you I’ve wanted to help in all your troubles. I think I finally see that my help, words, touch, understanding is not enough. You repeat your issues time and time again.
My words now sound repetitive and I realise they did not become absorbed but were allowed to bounce off and around you, left on the ground to die away.
I’ve grown up now and I see I cannot change you to help you. Only you can do that.
“I see I cannot change you to help you. Only you can do that”…It’s so true that no matter how much we ache to “fix” those we love…We can’t. They have to do that for themselves.
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A lesson we all perhaps must learn
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🤗 so true.
Have a great Sunday!
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