Steemit Engagement Challenge: My Declaration of Unconventional Love by @patjewell

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Hi there

Yah… yah, it’s me!

It’s been sometime since the last time I’ve marked your online page. At least you know that I have not forgotten you. That I put ink to your papers day after that.

Gosh I’ve been busy this last month. At least it was one of those “nice” busy months. Yes I know, time does indeed have wings these days.

We are now all settle into our new environment. We have fallen in love with Ballito. It is so nice to wake up in the morning and to be able to see the ocean. Just a pity that we are not close enough to hear the sound of the waves when they strike the shore.

What amaze me is the amount of big ships on the ocean on their way to the harbour in Durban. I wonder… I wonder where they come from, I wonder about the precious goods they are carrying… I wonder what secrets they can tell.

Secrets! See there I go again. As soon as I started filling your pages there are just no stopping me. No wonder I fill two of you in one year.

Dear diary, today I have a secret to tell you. Before I do you must promise me that you will tell nobody. This is our secret.

I am in love! No, I’ve got it wrong. I am in love BIG time! You will never ever guess with who.

I am in love with you!

Ssshhh! Not so loud, the other belongings will hear you.

Through all these years you are the one I can share all my secrets with. You are the one I use to organise my thoughts and it is through you that I can step back and reflect on my life.
My trusted friend, my companion and my mainstay.

RISE AND SHINE

Each morning I start my day with you in my hand, that special connection we share. My daily devotion which became part of your life. It was with you I shared ten of my daily prayers. Can you remember?
04 June 2016 was the date.

For six years you were my devoted prayer partner until the last prayer was answered. The celebrations we share never to be forgotten.

It is amazing to think that after all these years, my heart still starts to bounce when I open you.

They say that passion eventually fades over the years. This is not the case with us. With each page and with each book my love for you just grow stronger.

EARLY MORNING

You are there with my first cup of tea and it is you who get a special place on the coffee table when I serve breakfast.

It is you who I long to when I feel vulnerable, when I am filled with you joy and full of sorrow.

It is you I pack in my suitcase when I go on holiday and when I go to hospital.

It was with you I share my biggest decision, to get married again, that one Thursday morning.
With you I shared that beautiful day when I said “Yes!”

MOM’S TAXI IS ON THE MOVE

Can you remember that time I told you about how I wanted to change the traffic light with the remote of our electric gate? Gosh! How stupid I felt. You were the only one not laughing when I told you what happened even after I had to laugh at myself.

It was with you I could share my last drive home after I had to say goodbye to a loved one before the machine which kept her alive was switched off.

14 February, 2019 was the day. On that Valentine’s Day my tears smudged the writing on your pages instead of my hearts.

FROM DUSK TO DAWN

Dear diary, I close each day by filling the last space on your page. Sometimes I am overflowing and find it hard to say goodnight and then there are those nights that I don’t have many words. Times when I just draw a flower or a heart before I say goodnight.

As I came to yet the end of another day in my life all that is left is to say…

Good night… I love you!

I invite:
@ngoenyi
@eliany
@nahela

• Images of diaries are my own