i just got an extremely wonderful phone call from my friend.
it came in the wake of an email she sent detailing the terrible situation she's in.
no it is not to do with any guy.
no she has not run out of credit on her mobile - she does not even have one.
no, this was something far more involved. as i read it, as she poured her heart out in the words she could barely write and never say, i actually cried. it was so sad that i, who would not even contemplate crying at a funeral, i shed a tear for her.
her grandfather has a terrible form of cancer that is terminal, and her whole family is slowly falling apart.
her mother forgets to cook and her father is too stressed in his work to come home.
they spend every weekend up in canberra, sitting by the bedside of a man who cannot even recall who they are or recognise their voices.
her younger brother and her sit in their respective rooms and wish that it was over, that life could be normal again. They do not even have the heart to fight and bicker any more.
i feel absolute pity for her. and i wish simply that i could feel, even a tiny bit, how they feel, so i could truly understand what she is going through.
and on top of all of this, here in sydney we have our half-yearly exam week, which adds more stress onto it.
what pulls my heartstrings most though, is that now - a public holiday for our country - she only wishes to be back at school, so that she can feel happy again. that she feels she can only be happy at school, away from her family, feels wrong to me.
and so first on my list of things to do before i die is; find out what makes margaret truly happy, and DO IT.
thats all.
 georgie is a pirate · Sun Jun 08, 2008 @ 12:06pm · 0 Comments |
