New year almost here

Wow, another year almost gone.

Last Christmas we lived the hope that in 365 days there will be a little boy sitting under the tree trying to take all the ornaments down. The reality is there is a boy, laying under the tree making jerking uncoordinated arm movements who can’t even see the tree…

I feel like living in a strange movie, whose director read my secret journal. Now he is using all my worst fears to create “It”. But I don’t want to live in a horror movie, chick flick or an interesting biography maybe, but I hate scary movies.

Every parent fears the death of their child. We lived though it, didn’t get over it, never will. I feared having mentally and/or physically disabled child. Now I have one. In the strange hypothetical game “which sense would you not want to loose” I would always pick sight. Not being able to see presents a very cruel form of torture to me. And here we go mister director, why don’t we throw blindness into the mix? So far this sounds like a great opening to a horror or a drama movie, but I have no interest in staring in those. The director will have a fit and he will need to do some explaining to the studio executives, but this will be an inspirational “dramedy” (I loath that word, but it works so well).

So how about this pitch? Forty something woman, unsuccessfully hiding the ever growing number of gray hair who resorts to making jokes about the post pregnancy left over pounds is fighting to give her only child a better future than the doctors predicted. She fights for the services for her son while trying to keep up with the super momma image. It goes all to shits one day and she emerges from the wreckage a better, kinder person.

Would you watch this? If I’m stuck on a plane I might 😉

2017 was a heck of a year, I’m not sure if it was worse than 2016. But no matter what it was (technically still is for two weeks) it gave us an opportunity for a tremendous personal growth. And I do hope 2018 will provide us with ample challenges, because we are like diamonds. It’s just carbon until you give it a heck of a squeeze.