Manic Monday April 23rd
For someone that you love deeply would you be willing to move to a foreign country knowing that there would be little chance of seeing your friends and family again?
If you could spend a year in perfect happiness but afterward remember nothing of the experience, would you do it?
I don’t think I could move away from my friends and family. I moved away once, and it took far too long to get back. I’m probably just not willing to do that again. Perhaps it helps that I am happily married, and my husband is here, eh?
The second is a bit harder to answer, but I think probably not. What good is it to be happy if you don’t remember it? And are you ever really happy without at least a touch of the bittersweet? Isn’t it the small portion of unhappy that defines for us what happy truly is? And isn’t it the memory of happy that keeps us going when times are tough? I think I’d settle for content and remembering than happy and not.
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Hi Cass, Your new look is wonderful!
Moving away from family is so hard, I’ve done it once before.
I can see what you mean about wanting to remember the good memories in the bad times.
Thank you for playing Manic Monday and have a wonderful week.
Hmm I think I could manage the first bit [already done I suppose] but I’m not sure about the second part!
Glad you managed to get your blog sorted out.
Cheers
Hi Cass, I am new to your site.Your blog layout looks great…Do you have two columns or three??? I like the way the whole page is filled out.Have a good day. Baba
Thank you, Lisa. I’m sorry I’ve been forgetting it lately. I’m just frazzled.
Thanks, mcewen. I’m really liking it now. It feels like home.
Night Owl, it was a 2 column layout that I hacked to death
When my wife and I first met I probably would have moved anywhere.
and on the 2nd item.. definitely a No. I remember hard times today with pride much more than the happy times anyways.
Oh yeah. I like looking back on my achievements!