Another week, another two famous names gone. What a year this is turning out to be. I’ve spoken a lot recently about the people who have left us to go to a better place and we comfort ourselves as best we can, but sometimes it’s difficult to comprehend why so many have to go in such quick succession.
One day we’ll make sense of it all and meanwhile we try our best to get on with our life’s plan, doing good where and when we can even if our fellow humans don’t make it easy….
This week I had to take my favourite light back to the store as it had blown up after 18 months. I bought it for myself as I left Southampton as a reminder of all the good times. It glittered all the colours of the rainbow and I found it a great reflection of the different light and shade of my time in the South. Yet, like all things eventually, it died. So I took it back for an exchange. I should’ve known it was going to be an adventure when on the journey I saw someone being arrested for shoplifting and travellers tried to sell me “lucky” heather…
When I arrived in store the lift stopped at every floor and it was if the cast of Monty Python kept getting in and out, such were their crazy stories; but that’s for another time. The woman who eventually approached me in the lighting department with her less than friendly “Yes?” told me there were no replacements and as the lamp had been reduced in the clearance, all she could offer me was £9!
To cut a long story short, I managed to get a full refund but not without a struggle. In the end the lady apologised for being a grump and said she was having an off day. We never know what’s happening in people’s lives. Maybe she could’ve done with a rainbow light to remind her of the light and shade of her life? For whatever happens to us this week, and whoever we encounter, we will experience both. Combined, they are the making of us.
(Thanks to Freepik for their very own rainbow this week…)
Lovely words Mike. A beautiful chill out to start the week, thanks Mike.