Daily writing prompt
What are you most excited about for the future?
Excitement about the future and what it might hold for us as individuals or perhaps for our countries and the world, in general, can get muddled and hazy with simply dealing with the present and the near future - like next week.
And to be honest, I don't know or can't really think of anything off-hand that gets me all jazzed up and excited about what lies ahead. At the same time, there isn't anything in particular that gets me to depressed or forlorn about what might or might not happen.
As I ponder the prompt for a second or two, climate change is one that now worries me to some extent as we head into the future. Experts are predicting that this hurricane season will be the worst on record. And seeing a Nova Scotia can often find itself in a hurricane track, the thought of more violent and destructive storms doesn't really fill me with joy and excitement. Maybe the climate change issue is better left for another day and another post.
Perhaps the thing I'm most interested in and many may find it strange, to say the least, is how the near future(say six months to a year) plays out for Lynn's father. Since the passing of Lynn's mom back in September 2023, her dad has fallen into a relationship with a gal he used to work with many years ago. That was the short version.
The whole deal with the relationship and specifically how Lynn's father dealt with explaining EVERYTHING to his family is worthy of a daytime television Emmy Award. Like no information at all or usually some ambiguous explanations or information at best.
Lynn had a very frank and stark phone call with him last week. And I must give him credit, he did and was very honestly genuine in his emotions and reasons as to why the relationship. If he had only done this six months ago, none of this drama and anger would have occurred ....... at all.
Parents can be a pain in the ass at times.
Moving on though, he said he can't look after the family home anymore, mostly due to physical limitations like climbing stairs and doing yard work, and the house is too big for his needs. So he is going to sell it. Which makes sense.
He and the new girlfriend are going to get an apartment together and ........... well there ya have it.
So, I'm mildly at times or in other instances fully invested to see how this works out. I imagine it will all be fine in the end. I hope so for his sake.
But I do still worry about climate change. Even amid family drama, climate change rates right up there.
--as always with love--
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