Bored? - The best is yet to come.

 

[Image description: slogan - "THE BEST IS YET TO COME"; © n/k]

I am coming up for fifty-two and I genuinely say and believe that the present is the best part of my life. No regrets. Live each day to the fullest you are capable of. Most days I am trapped abed; but the days I am up & about are very precious. Nonetheless, even those days I am trapped in my bed-cell, through the æther I live to the fullest extent I can.

If you are bored - go for a walk (something I can no longer do);
If you are bored - read a book (something I can rarely do);
If you are bored - cook a meal for a friend (something I can do from time to time with some assistance);
If you are bored - draw, paint, create whatever (something I can no longer do);
If you are bored - go out and dance alone (something I can no longer do) and dance and dance and dance;
If you are bored - write a poem (something I can still occasionally do on those days when I have some nous);
If you are bored - well, you only have yourself to blame. As Zelda Fitzgerald said, "she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." ;)

 

Live life whilst you can -

you never know when it will be taken from you!

[video: Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring]

 

My long-lost ability to read…

At the beginning of April I reported a bout of insomnia on my facebook feed. However, despite the lack of sleep, I was extremely happy to relate that over a period of four hours, I read in Spanish volumes 9 and 10 of Y: the last man / Y: el último hombre (images below). The none-native-tongue is not what is so remarkable; the fact I read for an extended period is. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis can severely effect the cognitive abilities of sufferers. In my case I periodically lose the ability to read anything other than short passages of text. Some days any kind of reading is beyond me. Added to this is intermittent dyslexia. However, I may be slowly regaining my ability to read.

This past weekend over a two-day period I read Three Men in the Snow / Drei Männer im Schnee (images below) by Erich Kästner. Admittedly I am familiar with this work. Nonetheless I had not read it in well over a decade. To boot I read it in the original German.

Well, here's hoping my ability to read has returned. I may even be able to rejoin my book-club!

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