Trying to move on

Hi Father,

Mother has stayed with us for about a week now. We have gone and bought some simple furniture for the spare room that Mother is now occupying. Not too sure if you know, but we used to use this room as a store room, so there was a major clearing-out! Thankfully, we managed to find space around the house to "re-locate" the boxes and stuff.

I hope Mother is slowly getting used to staying with us, just as we are slowly getting used to having another person in the house. Mother is also acquainting herself well with the different bus routes.

We all miss you, just that nobody is saying anything. Everytime I go over your place, I look at the chair that you always occupy, memories of us talking about current affairs will come flooding back.

I know time will heal, in that we will eventually come to terms with your absence, but nobody actually said how long it'll take ...

And one final thing: there was a moth that was flying around the prayers area on the morning before we sent you off to Mandai - was that ... you?



Post Date: 15 June 2007