The Water Is Wide
The haze has taken over the Kuala Lumpur skyline like poor memory. Despite the pollution it gives an etheral feel to things, like a parallel universe.
Indoors, the easy temperament of the office recovered. Perhaps this is the peculiar to children from small families, but I am relieved to have company again. The week was dry and lonely, with only work for company.
Now there is banter, and other sounds of preoccupation. It gives me relief and I know I will miss this when I leave.
I told my boss I tender next week, where we paused for a moment, to laugh again.
It is the irony of things. I swear everything is sweeter before change comes to expire all you know. Transience is a simple concept we spend our entire lives trying to grapple. Perhaps this is Darwinian. Perhaps it’s just the sudden realisation that you are parting with friends.
In any case, I’m enjoying it while it lasts. Not far away lie more trials, more lessons to learn and hopefully excel through. So I savour the moment. I received amazing news this morning, and more adventures await, more than I ever imagined in a June of a year.
So many ruin their lives certain of discontent, ambigious of self-possession. So I will try not to make that mistake. There is a feeling of everything being the way it should be. Few can boast that. Actually, few can keep it.
