“life will be better in spring”

March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 January 2011 March 2011

The strange feeling of being suddenly whole (had he been empty this entire time, then?) felt alike to his mother's rare kisses to the forehead for scoring a very high mark on his tests; or his father's even rarer hugs for making him proud by impressing his colleagues with his outstanding knowledge in their work—or both, only a lot more intense. It felt a lot like that day so many years ago, the last day both his parents and older sister had gotten together for a family picnic and spent the whole day together with him without anything to interrupt their time together. No work, not their social lives, nothing. That had been more than a decade ago, and they had not spent any time together—the four of them—ever since.

Labels: happiness, random