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About a year and a half ago, I lost a good friend, my cat Elffie. Since then, I've been living a long process of listening and healing my broken heart, made of mixed feelings of, on one hand, missing a feline company around the house and having a lot of love to give but, on the other hand, the paralyzing fear of suffering another lost. In this fear, it's easy to build a wall around us that gives us a sense of comfort, and you find yourself getting used to living like that, not taking any risks, not opening yourself, not compromising. I believe it's a necessary and useful step in the process of letting time do its job of licking wounds, but when it becomes too long, it prevents us from growing and evolving. Lately, I've been working these ties in myself, the fears, and slowly I felt, in a very intuitive way, that this period was coming to an end, and little by little I started to wish that life would bring me an opportunity, not to replace the emptiness I feel with the space that Elffie left (that I now know will never be occupied), but to open my heart to new learning, to get out of fear and just stay in love. That is how this baby tiger with blue eyes, so small yet and so sweet, and already so unique, came into our lives this week. We called him Linho (which means "linen" in portuguese) and he has brighten the days around here (and this grey year), and has been such a good company while I work ♥.
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