SteemitMamas Write Along Challenge Day 17 - Share Street Photography

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Yay! Better late than never. I have been sitting on this post for a couple of days now but I really do want to share this because it's part of the awesome #steemitmamas write along challenge Day 17 which was to share some street photography. I have to learn to take better pictures but I just couldn't resist this one which I took just last Sunday just passed when I took my Dad to the hospital ER as he had been sporting a high fever for the last couple of days. My mum was beside herself with worry as he was listless, tired and hardly had an appetite which was nothing like my Dad's normal self. Anyway, I was actually walking back to the car to drive and pick them up, thinking about all the stuff that I had to do and work on, people that I had to meet, places that I wanted to go, time that I wanted to spend with other people, family, parents, friend...etc. My mind was a convoluted mess of thoughts when my eyes settled on the paintwork that dominated the sidewalk I was walking on. I was in my own way worrying and getting anxious about everything...

Photo taken with my Huawei Mate 9

On the left of the picture, you can see criss-cross and zig-zag lines and to me that was how complicated I felt life had become. All the responsibilities and weight of the world (seemingly) on my shoulder. My much younger self would have sighed and told myself, you just need to "woman-up" and carry on...after all this is life! I would be my own cheerleader saying things like "You can do it! It's ok! Stress is good..." Funnily enough, I was emulating the game that I played with my little Chapati a couple of days ago trying to avoid stepping on those messy lines. Here I was a grown older woman with a backpack hopping and skipping into the empty spaces between those zig-zag lines! Thank God it was a Sunday afternoon and a long weekend so there was no one around or least not that I noticed.

But I am glad that as I get older and seemingly wiser, (thank God!) I also saw the two straight lines on the right! Immediately I stopped and contemplated how much more comfortable the two straight lines looked to me. I stopped hopping around like an idiot and started to walk with purpose in between those two lines to my car. As you can imagine, it was definitely a more pleasant walk and I got there much quicker.

I was thankful that I could give God my burdens and realign again by focusing on what is most important. I was there for my parents and yes while there are still so many other things, I am just going to take them one by one as they come! I am just pleased that I have come to a place and realisation that I don't have to be able to handle it everything superbly. After all I was brought to remember 2 Corinthians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness..."

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Love
Khim

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