It's amazing what we can live without. Watch one week of the hit TV show Survivor if you need a reminder. I lost my appendix recently. Well, not really lost- I was aware that it was leaving. In fact, I was rather happy to have it taken off my hands when the event actually unfolded.
I had a small period of down time following surgery in which my already busy mind found lots of ways to entertain myself. I listed things that I could live without. Of course, the list could not be simple. I found myself dividing it into categories: things I could live without happily, things I could live without if I had to, things I could live without with pain and suffering...you get the picture.
So, in the aftermath of thinking of things that I could actually live without, I naturally developed a list of things that I could NOT live without. In no particular order, these are those things:
Animals. Of any sort. I do not want to spend a day without the company of an animal of some type. Dogs, horses, cats, llamas, raccoons, hedgehogs, ferrets, goats...any of these will do.
Family. Of any sort. My family comes in a wider variety of characters than most, I think. Like a book of nursery rhymes, complete with villians, heroes and heroines, furry creatures and big teeth, I love them as they are and am thankful for the crowd that rallied around us during and since my surgery.
Friends. Few and True could be a new motto for me here. I am busy and don't take the time to cultivate and tend the wonderful friends I have- thank you all for understanding my tendency to withdraw and retreat on occasion.
Home. Yes, I do mean the walls that surround me. I hear about the struggles of people and am thankful that I have a place to call home.
Purpose. I wake up each and every day and am driven to complete the tasks I have started, be excellent at everything I do, achieve more than I should in a day, help someone who didn't expect or deserve it, and follow my personal compass toward some unseen destination.
Okay, enough musing...Sorry I've been absent but I'm anxious to start blogging again and tell you about all the wonderful animals I've met lately.
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