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Someday, you'll close your eyes and wonder where all the time went .
Birthday after Birthday.
You're not the little girl you once were.
It's a random Saturday
And you have a family of your own
A husband, a daughter, a son, and maybe more than just 2.
You have to:
Coordinate the chores to be done or do them yourself
The cleaning
The cooking.
The laundry.
You still have to loosen your daughters hair for the saloon tomorrow .
Take your son to the barber's shop,
Go grocery shopping for the week that follows
Do all these and more .
Don't forget ,
You still have to be home earlier
To make sure dinner is not a few hours later.
The hassle every school day morning,
Waking by 4am and still getting late,
From the” mom, i forgot my school bag at home"
To the " layla, don't forget your school bag in the car"
All these seem so familiar
Almost like déjà vu
But this time it actually happened.
The mild calm at the end of a long day!
Heated conversations,
environment so tensed ,
someone has to apologise for the marriage not to fall on ends.
It's a struggle, every single day, to next forever.
Someday, you'll look into the mirror and wonder where all the youthfulness went.
Your skin, bright, tight and youthful
Now covered with wrinkles and blemishes that every eye can trace
Your hair. Sleek, full, dark,
Now covered with grey
each stand representing the number of your day .
Your joys and sorrows
Your opportunities and regrets . And your experiences in-between
the agility of youth you once held,
Now you struggle to do the things you considered basic.
When,
Once upon a time at mid day, staring at the clouds and the proximity between you too,
wondering, "When will I ever grow up?
With the days that followed
You just wanted to be grown
eat 2 meat from the pot without permission. Stay up past 8 pm, chooes your own clothes, your own style
Being in secondary school, where all the girls seemed so cool
Printed skirts and blinding white t-shirts
Your first love
Your first kiss, your first day at University's gate, your first night in your husband's house, your first pregnancy, and the first cry of your newborn.
No life doesn't end here, they'll be so many “firsts”.
And all the promises and opportunities you thought would last forever
Now silenced by the dong time.
Now I'm in my prime.
I need to take closer notes as to how these things should go.
But we're all too busy doing only God knows what.
Someday, they'll be no next step to anticipate, as we've circled the whole circle and there is no next phase
And somehow realise it was a line all along, it's the end , and there's no other step to take
no eyes to open
No bright shinny ideas, no thoughts, no expectations, no regrets, no promises
No dreams and no feelings to hold on to.
Not even oxygen!
Just silence.
I want to end this here cause I really have nothing else to say
But for what it's worth, this is just a reminder
Share this reminder, you beautiful soul.
That someday, you'll wonder where all the time went.
When the time was always Now!
Scary but true..... Thanks for the reflection.